Christmas this year is in Canberra for the first time – just the three of us. After all the stress of starting a new job (and the expensive clusterf**k which was last year’s Christmas) I’m glad B put his foot down and decided we were staying home this year. We plan to meet friends for lunch and then relax in the evening.
It also meant I got to make the house all christmassy for once! Yes, my dog has a personalised stocking. Don’t judge. 
On Boxing Day we will drive Bear to his dog hotel for 10 days as we head off to Singapore. Lots of fun stuff planned there so far including: cocktail drinking in the resort pool, dinner at NOX restaurant, a cooking class and visiting Universal Studios. It’s going to be a good mix of exploring and relaxing.
Not long after we get back from Singapore, I fly to Sydney to meet up with my 3 lovely girlfriends for my bridesmaids/hens cruise! Eeeeeeeee!! We are going on a 4 night cruise from Sydney to Moreton Island and back. It will be a great opportunity to drink, be merry, explore Moreton Island and relax together. When B and I do formalise things, we won’t be doing any of the usual hoopla that comes with “weddings” so this is my time with the ladies so they know how important they have been in my life ❤️
After returning from the cruise we have the following trips planned so far for 2018.
- Late January we are heading to Sydney for the weekend to see the Foo Fighters
- In February we are doing a quick 3 day visit to Perth for a special event with friends + family catch ups
- Easter will be spent at Tomakin Beach letting Bear run amok at the dog beach
- April school holidays = the Melbourne International Comedy Festival again! Woohoo. We booked a better hotel this time
- July school holidays will possibly see us visiting Brisbane/Gold Coast to meet a tiny new family member…or perhaps a snow trip to Thredbo? Nothing is locked in yet
- At the end of the year we will probably look at another overseas visit. Japan was always somewhere we wanted to go back to but B shattering his wrist means that may be off the table in snow season now. We are tossing around a Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand visit as well. We have both pretty much agreed that we will save anymore really big trips (like the Northern Lights!) until B has his long service leave on a few years. Although if we don’t go back to Perth next Christmas either that’s a 7 week chunk of leave for me….we could do a lot in 7 weeks!
- At some point we will also have to choose a Honeymoon destination. Argh.
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