V-Festival

My gift to Rob for his birthday this year was tickets to V-Festival. V-Fest is the Virgin Music Festival that is held each year at Centennial Olympic Park in Sydney (and also held in other locations throughout Australia). It's an all-day music event and this year it ran from 1pm to 10pm on March 28th with performances on each of the four stages by bands such as Snow Patrol, Kaiser Chiefs, The Kills, Duffy, and the headliner: The Killers. The park itself is 543 acres so the event was pretty spread out with plenty of food stalls and bars set up all around. It ended up being a GORGEOUS sunny day! Here are some of the pictures:

Waiting for the opening of the entry gates

Still waiting

Got some drinks and sat around for a few minutes until Duffy started playing

Relaxing on the grass

Front row for Duffy

Rob, me and Duffy

Duffy

Video of Duffy singing "Stepping Stone"

Some of the other concert-goers

Crazy Dawn flew in from Melbourne and came straight to V-fest and met up with us

Dawn and Rob

The Kills...this girl was crazy!

The Kills

The Kills

The sun starting to set

Snow Patrol! Their performance overlapped with The Killers so we only got to stick around for a couple of songs before dashing across the park to try to get a good spot for The Killers

Snow Patrol

The Killers

Dawn and I watching The Killers

Watching The Killers

The Killers

The Killers

The Killers

The Killers

Sia Concert and "After Party"

The Sydney Apple Store puts on small, private concerts every now and then. This week, Sia played for a group of about 200. I have loved Sia's song Breathe Me for about 3 years but I never even knew she was an Aussie! She's from Adelaide. Rob and I were about 4th in line at the concert to see her live. She was incredible! Even though she was one weird little cookie, her voice is amazing! We were so close to her it was awkward taking pictures because the camera was right in her face! Here are some of the shots we got:

Waiting on George Street outside of The Apple Store

Still waiting for the doors to open

Sia, up close and personal

Front row

Sia

Sia

Sia


After the concert we went out in the city and met up with some friends. It was Jeff's last night in Sydney before heading back to the States so a party was in order.

Mike, Dawn, Rob, Me, Jeff (with a moustache)

Rob and me in Three Wise Monkeys

Jeff and me with our moustaches

Rob, Mike and Jeff trying to create beer-foam moustaches

Mike, Dawn, Rob and Kwun Ye

Jeff the bartender

Cheers!

The ladies

March

A few random days in March:

Our Melbourne friend Nathalie came to Sydney for work so we got to hang out with her for a few days. Dawn came out too. We started the day with lunch at the Australian Hotel and then walked across the Harbour Bridge

Can't miss an Opera House photo op

Once we were across the bridge we went to Luna Park! Dawn had never been and she was about to leave Sydney for good so she wanted to see it.

Rob and me dancing

Rob with two clowns (Rob is in the middle)

Enjoying sitting by the water in the beautiful weather

The next night we all went out for some after work drinks at Rooftop Bar (Dawn, Nathalie's work colleague, Nathalie, Rob, me)

Followed by dinner at Jackson's on George

And then a drink at the posh club Ivy

The Ladies Man

And the next night we all got together for Mike and Dawn's Going Away Party! :( They were heading back home to North Carolina (Kwun Ye, Dawn, Me, Nathalie)

The whole lot of us (Rob1-Colorado, Mike-N.Carolina, Rob2, Nathalie-Melbourne, Dawn-N. Carolina, Me, Kwun Ye-Canada)

Girls shot

Carolinians

Framing my face

At the end of the night we had to say our goodbyes to Mike and Dawn. We're hoping to plan a reunion once we're all back in the States!