I Eat Rainbows

The vacation was fantastic. Hunter Valley is a beautiful place, and Christmas was awesome.
We didn’t get to see much of Sydney, what with clouds and rain and all the seniors in our group not being comfortable. Sydney was basically spent inside the train and inside the boat. Not even looking out, you see, because of the heavy rain.
Train, yes. We drove to the end of the motorway, and then took a train to central Sydney. I’m very unhappy that we couldn’t drive to Sydney — the Sydway that we borrowed is an excellent piece of mapwork. If the Brisway is anything like it, we need to get it…
Anyway, we spent half of the eve of Christmas eve and all of Christmas Day in Hunter Valley, Pokolbin. As I mentioned before, it is trés beautiful. There was a pool in our hotel, which was where I spent my time is I wasn’t eating, photographing, or vegetating.
The Christmas haul is … interesting, this year. I got two (!) CD cases. But I do like this mousepad with built-in calculator and FM radio, which I’m using now, and mum and pop got me a fictional historical crime thriller, which is shaping up to be rather interesting.
As a shameless plug, visit www.flickr.com/photos/sohumb to view some other photos I took.

Merry Christmas in Tomatoes
Originally uploaded by sohumb.

Hah. We’re leaving for Sydney tomorrow for Christmas with a few other friends and family, for a week, roughly. This is our gift box, to be hidden from view and then emptied at the bottom of the tree on the earliest occasion.
I’ll try to keep blogging, but availability of an internet connection is a big unknown, so I might not be able to publish the posts. Project365 continues, although they will also probably not get uploaded until I get back.