Author name: jade

Melbourne Weekend

This was Labor Day weekend complete with a 3-day weekend and a Moomba Festival. We walked by the festival but didn’t partake in the festivities. On Saturday, we surveyed for trains, trams, and coffee shops. In the afternoon we took a tram to the beach, walked along the cold and windy shore, and ate fish […]

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I am an extrovert

The last time I took the Myers-Briggs test was maybe 10 years ago and at the time, I scored 50/50 introvert/extrovert. We went out for a night on the town with the folks from our sponsoring company and I can confidently say that after a year of pandemic, I’m an extrovert. First we had cocktails

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Exuberance

happy Our building has a gym and pool! I went to a gym for the first time in a year. It felt great. In the evening, we walked to Southbank. According to google, Southbank draws a sophisticated crowd to its cultural venues, which include the Malthouse theater, based in a restored brewery, and the state-of-the-art

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Move to Melbourne

After waking up to a lovely view of Sydney Harbor, walking for a muffin and real coffee by the ferries, we hopped on a plane for a 1.5 hour flight to Melbourne. In Sydney, the air was warm and humid but in Melbourne, it was downright cold. I guess I won’t be wearing dresses after

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Freedom day

We were scheduled to be released at 9am, they hadn’t arrived by 9:05 so we called to please let us out! Then we discovered BF had thrown our release papers away in the room and we had to wait for the police to let us back into the room to retrieve the papers. OUTSIDE!!! OMG

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