{"id":1578,"date":"2013-04-29T10:24:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T17:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2013-04-29T10:24:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T17:24:12","slug":"lucky-to-be-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/?p=1578","title":{"rendered":"Lucky to be there&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I had the chance to teach at the awesome Pages 2 Scrap, and then spend a few days in beautiful Sydney with my hubs. It poured rain during one of my teaching days&#8230;we even had problems with paint drying! But the weather was gorgeous while we did our touristy stuff. I really loved Australia&#8230;can&#39;t wait to go back. Next time I&#39;m going to bring the fellas &amp; do surfing lessons, and then also go up North to see the Great Barrier Reef.<\/p>\n<p>The beautiful harbor:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/dinastamps.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451cff869e201901bafdf8e970b-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"001 sm\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451cff869e201901bafdf8e970b\" src=\"https:\/\/dinastamps.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451cff869e201901bafdf8e970b-500wi\" title=\"001 sm\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Famous Bondi beach&#8230;the water felt great:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/dinastamps.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451cff869e201901bafe0f4970b-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"003 sm\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451cff869e201901bafe0f4970b\" src=\"https:\/\/dinastamps.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451cff869e201901bafe0f4970b-500wi\" title=\"003 sm\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got to pet this koala, even though he looks like he&#39;s avoiding me:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/dinastamps.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451cff869e201901bafe1e2970b-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"002 sm\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451cff869e201901bafe1e2970b\" src=\"https:\/\/dinastamps.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451cff869e201901bafe1e2970b-500wi\" title=\"002 sm\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The view of Sydney from Taronga Zoo:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/dinastamps.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451cff869e201901bafe40f970b-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"004 sm\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451cff869e201901bafe40f970b\" src=\"https:\/\/dinastamps.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451cff869e201901bafe40f970b-500wi\" title=\"004 sm\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My middle fella was really concerned that I would be bitten by a Sydney funnel web spider. I did see one at the reptile park&#8230;but there was never one in my shoes. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I had the chance to teach at the awesome Pages 2 Scrap, and then spend a few days&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}