Big trip #2 for us this year was to Australia and New Zealand! We went for a little short of 2 weeks to Sydney and Auckland. The highlights for me are depicted below for food and things we did, but mostly it was great to see some friends I hadn't seen in a while!Sydney highlights in no particular order:
Manly Beach- Fish & Chips
, Harr's Cafe meat pie with mashed potatoes and peas, bacon roll from the farmer's market, 
and pub grub from the Shakespeare pub...I also tried Vegemite at Elissa's place but that was a lowlight haha but glad I tried it!
Now for highlights of activities:
Featherdale Wildlife Park where we were among the kangaroos, koalas, emus, and all sorts of other animals... Bondi Beach with Elissa and Luke (our wonderful hosts)... Blue Mountains to be out in nature... and we found Nesbitt Street in Sydney!
Now on to Auckland and the food and activity highlights (which are significantly shorter due to less days):
We actually loved the kebabs they had so had that twice... went over to the seaport town of Devonport where we hiked up to the top of a volcanic cone to Fort/Mt Victoria to overlook the bay (it was quite rainy whilewe were there)... we went on a ferry to the volcanic island of Rangitoto... and we had dinner our last night at the top of the Sky Tower- great trip!
