Thought that since i put a picture of the new car up, i better explain what happened to the diahatsu... need i say more?

Well ladies and gentlemen... dean and penne have taken a leap of faith and bought a little car together... CLIO! As you'll see she's a cute little Renault Clio Expression, 2004 model, 33000ks, one owner, immaculate condition, very sexy for only $14000 drive away! We pick her up next week!!!!!!! xx

Well, Dean's finally back in the land of Oz!! He stepped off the plane, kissed me and said "Can we go to Sovereign Hill for a meat pie?" so we did! Then that we night attended the Sovereign Hill Easter Bunny Ball where we were the hottest couple around... hehe!

Dean and i finally had a day together and spent it at Asakusa buying souvenirs, presents and a kimono each. We also had a ride on a richshaw. I think our driver Fuji found us a bit heavy at times...
Dean bought a yukata (summer kimono/bathrobe) and i picked up a beautiful second hand traditional kimono and obi.

Another day at Disneyland! Ah... what a hard life.

Tokyo City from Tokyo Tower

On friday I headed to Tokyo Tower, the tallest self supporting tower in the world, a broadcasting tower at 333m high... although we could only go to 200m... not that i was complaining... the Charlie and the Chocolate factory glass elevator was um... exciting.

Dean and I have just returned from an amazing 4 day ski trip to Hakuba, Nagano (where the 1998 Winter Olmpics were held)... here are some photo's to be jealous of...

One thing i love about japan is that the people are so friendly... the kids are also soo cute. Parents consider it a compliment if a westerner takes interest in their child... so cooeing and awwing is acceptable... i've been doing alot of it. hehe

FISHIES!!

Photo's of JAPAN!

Ok here are some travel photos... dean has been working heaps so i've had lots of time to travel around Japan. The first photo is of the Imperial Palace where Japan's Emporer lives. You can't go in but you can walk around the outside through the Imperial Gardens.
Second; when i went to Asakusa, a lovely little district out of Tokyo where there are souvenirs gallore and a massive Buddhist temple called Senso-Ji. The photos is of me infront of Senso-ji. Temples are all over Japan, i find them very beautiful and serene.
Thirdly, a picture of me infront of the Giant Buddha, Diabutsu in Kamakura where i went with a friend of Dean's, Mark and his cousin. And a picture of Mark and I infront of Tsurugaoka-Hachimangu Shrine with Toffee Strawberries... YUMMY!

Now that i've figured how to use this again (everything is in japanese) i shall do a post or two for those impatient blogger people out there.
Japan is amazing... i'm dreading coming home.
I've been to Disneyland twice. Here is a photo of me with Bert, Peterpan and infront of the Penny Arcade.
Enjoy!

Can you guess what this is?

Oh how i love Tasmania.

Me, Jess and my christmas tree :)

Christmas eve... and I'm cooking! I thought it would be nice to make all my family chrissie hampers filled with homemade cranberry & pistachio nougat, ginger heart biscuits, dutch spice cookies and mint rocky road, all of with were very successful and have made us all very fat!

Merry Christmas everyone! I'm back at home in Tasmania feeling very relaxed... as well as very scared about the future now that there is no uni to go to each day. Christmas day was wonderful, the morning spent opening too many presents and eating way too much lindt chocolate! Then after a huge home grown lunch my brother Ben and I drove to Launceston to spend christmas night with my dad... where we had more food and more lindt chocolate!