Greetings

For those who have stumbled upon this blog, welcome to the first post of 2013. To family and friends who I have informed about the existence of this blog – Hello 🙂

The month of January thus far has been a cold and frosty one. Given that in Melbourne I would sport thermals under my suit pants for sub 10 degree temperatures, this is a new experience for me.

But there are pros to living in a snow covered city.

• Firstly,  engaging with the local kids in ‘free for all snowball fight’ on the way to get groceries, offers an adrenalin rush not usually experienced first thing on a Saturday morning
• Moon walking and Usher-like moves suddenly become second nature, that or its just me not having snow appropriate footwear. For the record I am capable of a pretty decent side moonwalk for those who were wondering lol
• There is something ‘movie like’ about having coffee with your friends whilst the snow covers the trees and rooftops outside.

As you can see, snow is a new thing for me and kind of a big deal!

Not so much has been done on the travel side of things just yet, it starts to kick off in February after which point I will be travelling roughly twice a month for the rest of the year.

But even though I’m not travelling I did have one of the best weeks gone by.

One of my all time favourite artists – the very talented and multi Grammy award winning – Mr Brian McKnight was in town to perform and I must say this is probably the best gig that I have ever been to. For those not too familiar with his songs I include a youtube video to jog your shameful memory!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVqgWZG27mg

For those who know me well, they will also know I am a huge NBA fan and was lucky enough to see the Knicks play the Pistons at the 02 Arena. An electric atmosphere that I hopefully I will have an another opportunity to experience in the not too distant future. (*Fingers crossed for that green card lol!). For the record New York won it comfortably.

Throw in Les Mis (FYI – Russell Crowe’s singing was painful in this one) for good measure and that is a pretty hard week to top in my books.

JD