SYDNEY MEET-UP HAUL.

So naturally during my recent trip to Sydney, I spent a little bit of money. Given that we went to half a dozen bookstores, I bought books. I received books. I got a lot of books.

I managed to find Buffy Season 9 Parts 1 & 2 for $45 each - a total bargain if you live here. I had to fight another girl for them and when we did find them in another store, they were closer to $60. I did a thorough search of the Dymock's music section for biographies and came across Viv Albertine's (guitarist for The Slits) autobiography, Music Clothes Boys. Expect a review of it soon, I'm currently making my way through it.

Much to my surprise I found I don't own every Kelley Armstrong book so I had to buy Otherworld Nights. I guess I stopped keeping track after the series ended and I'm now looking forward to the release of Otherworld Secrets next year. As part of our bi-annual book exchange, I received Sabriel by Garth Nix. I recently watched booksandquill's review of Clariel so I'm really looking forward to getting into the series.

Moving on from books, I couldn't walk through Sydney's Chinatown without going into Morning Glory, where I picked up a handful of goodies including a plush Domokun (in main picture), this adorable red panda notebook (it says, "I'm a lesser panda"), a suction cup nose keychain, some colourful bandaids for a friend and a Micro Block Mike from Monsters Inc. I also received a hand warmer for spending over $10 (not pictured).

Naturally we went into a tabletop gaming store where I purchased the Oz edition of Fluxx. It has been a great hit in our household so far! It's such a great game to pull out and quickly play a few hands (with two people at least, it gets a little more complicated when you have 4-6 people) and it's so based on chance since the rules are ever changing that anyone can win.

Finally, after discovering I wasn't the only one who wanted to go into Sephora (the conversation was "THERE'S A SEPHORA HERE?!"), I picked up a Kat Von D Studded Kiss Lipstick in Cathedral. I also had my eye on one of the Bite Beauty lip crayons but after a bit of a mixup, they did not have the colour I wanted in stock.

And that's it from me! Naturally most of my money was squandered on things like food and public transport. We're already planning for next year's trip to Brisbane!

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