World Youth Day begins here in Sydney next week. The city has been swarmed with Catholics waiting to walk around and find the Pope. Luckily for us, we will be out of town for the first go at having a real vacation while I am here. In honour of this holy occasion, Ben and I headed to the Cross. King’s Cross, that is. I will let the pictures do the talking for this story, as there is just too much to recap. We talked to heaps of randoms, and were highly entertained.

Yesterday was Ben’s Nana’s 80th birthday party here at the house. Heaps of fun were had by all, and heaps of wine bottles were emptied. Hung out with Ben’s cousin Megan for the first time in twelve years since she was in the states.

Tomorrow we depart bright and early for Orange, a cool-climate wine region in North Western New South Wales. We’re there for two days, then depart for the somewhat warmer Hunter Valley for another two days, and finally a stopover in Newcastle so Brandon and Liz can pop in on her family.

So no updates for the next week while I’m gone. Jicks, you better have a facebook album of photos from your Philly trip up soon. Ben and I can’t be the sole idiots adding pictures.