It's Like We Know What We Are Doing

June 2016 Let's start with the basics here.  I was in Australia in early June.  As I'm writing this, it's August.  You guys, I can't explain why it's taken so long.  I mean, life and everything takes over, but I don't do much normally.  Sure, it's a slower time at work, so I could be doing this at the office, but then I'd be even further behind on the staff reviews I should have had finished two weeks ago.  And I could be doing this at home, but there's only so much time to sit slack-jawed in front of the television. So here we are.  Let's go back a few months. Sydney was weird.  And by weird, I don't mean the city was weird.  I mean what we did in Sydney was a bit awkward.  We had two full days to explore.  And we had a bit of a bummer with the rain.  There was serious rain around Sydney during our stay.  So anything we tried to do would be based around how much we were dealing with the rain.  We focused our ...

Early June, 2016 When our Travel Agent met the family at Uluru , she said she was "in town" for Vivid Sydney.  I wasn't entirely sure what she meant at the time.  I thought I had read something about Vivid as we moved around the country.  But I didn't really understand what it was.  She was very excited and said she would report back when she arrived in Sydney. When we were in Hobart, I got an e-mail from our agent.  "Vivid Sydney is amazing!!  You're going to have a great time!!"  By this point, I had read a bit more about Vivid, but didn't entirely understand what we would be seeing. This.  We'd be seeing this. The Vivid Sydney website calls the festival a place where "art, technology and commerce intersect."  It began in 2009 and has grown since then.  In 2016, it was a 23 day festival, with art installations, live music and speakers scattered around the city.  Basically, you couldn't swing a dead cat without ru...