I finished my modified Helga blouse! It’s a little more cropped than I’d normally do, but I pretty much used every bit of the wool. (Definitely earned that yarn chicken merit badge!) Just needs a wash and a block… ❤️🧶🐓 @hobbii_yarn

“Interesting crowd here. I didn’t really know cheese appealed to the Gen Z.” 🧀🍷

Only in Sydney would you pay $40 to attend a CHEESE festival, and then spend more money to buy the cheese you’ve just tasted. 😂 On the upside, having it be ticketed meant there weren’t ridiculous queues for everything. We tasted many different cheeses along with butter, olives, pates, salamis, a couple different wines, whiskeys, a “whey liqueur” 😵‍💫, and gelato. And yeah, a bunch of it came home with us.

Guess who just won pub trivia?! 🏆 (And yes, I did get the Kylie question correct. #padam 💃)

Decisions decisions… 🤔

Yesterday was the 5-year anniversary of when I started at AWS, so today I picked up my Orange badge. I never really expected to hit this milestone, so thank you to all the colleagues, mentors, and friends who’ve helped me along the way. ❤️

We’re home! Fairly empty flight from Tokyo today. Back to winter… 🥶

Updated to add: I’m very happy to report that I had no difficulty getting back into Australia with my recovered passport! 😅