Koalas!

The Koalas, and little penguins (while I'll post more about later:-) were my main two reasons for wanting to go to Australia:-)  I LOVE these cute furry animals.  They aren't actually "bears" as many people mistakenly call them.  The close of shots of them are at one of the nature parks we went to where you can get a close look at them and even pet them!  When they are born they are the size of a pea in the mother's pouch, just like a kangaroo.  After only about 36 days they much bigger in the pouch, and start crawling out and hanging on the mom's back.  In the wild, they climb WAY up in the trees and plant themselves in the branches, the last 2 pictures are in the wild.  They were really far up in the tree, the second one is actually of a mom and joey SO cute, I literally could have watched them for hours.  I wish I could have brought one home with me! 

Sydney Opera House

David and I have had Australia on our bucket list for a l really long time!  We saved up and actually got to check it off our list.  We were there for 2 weeks and did all kinds of different things and met so many amazing people along the way!  I usually don't take a real camera with me on vacation but obviously this is a little different circumstance:-)  After leaving the US on Christmas day we arrived 2 lay overs and 24 later in Sydney!  We totally missed December 26th, never even saw it!  Our first day there we walked all over the city and did a tour of the Opera House.  Sydney is one of the most amazing cities I've seen and SO expensive, even way more than New York or London!  The views there are amazing, from Sydney Harbor the Harbor Bridge and Opera House are obviously some of their most photographed icons.  The way the Opera House was designed was really interesting, everything has a purpose, the tiles on the outside are self cleaning, and inside the rooms there are no speakers or anything.  Everything is designed so you can hear it the same from wherever you are in the room.  There actually weren't too many places you could photograph inside but you will see some of the halls and entry way.  Yes, David had to try and hold up the bridge:-)  Accross the harbor, there is a little carnival looking place kind of like Navy Pier.  The clown face is a little scary!  These are some of my favorite views of the city scape:-) 

Heather + Crafton in NYC

Heather and Crafton live in Tampa now, but their story began when Heather lived in New York City!  When we were talking about where to do their engagement session Heather was telling me how she wished we could do it there and I was like "why not"?  So we did!  I got to hear how the whole story unfoldeded beginning at Heather and her roommate's old apartment.  One of their favorite places is the original Brother Jimmy's BBQ 1485 Second Ave.  There are lots of random signs, rustic wood, a fun bar and the people there were so nice and excited to have us there.  It was a whirlwind day!  Time Square, the subways, some of their favorite parks and we ended in Bryant Park, named after Crafton's family.  Just kidding:-) but actually it will be Heather's new last name in June!  It was so much fun to hear them talk about how they met, and and all the fun memories of the places they love and how the fell in love with each other.  I can't wait for their wedding it's going to be amazing!!!  xoxoxo