breakfast of kings - sydney style

Not a quilting post, but I wanted to share my morning with you...

This morning the empty field family were most fortunate to have Breakfast on the Bridge.

The entire Sydney Harbour Bridge was closed to traffic, the centre six lanes had been transformed overnight - turfed with real grass and decorated like a park - and we 3 and 5,997 other lucky people were privieged to take part in Sydney's biggest picnic!

 

source: http://www.breakfastonthebridge.com/

Although not normally one to seek out large crowds of people, I entered the ballot months ago for tickets and was so excited to receive the email this week saying our application had been successful - I never win anything! This was such great fun and everyone was in a terrific, happy, joyful, loving-life mood. 

After having driven for a gazillion years across the bridge (and under the bridge in the harbour tunnel) it was wonderful to just sit on the bridge and take in the wonders of this Aussie icon.

  

After a rather early start, we breakfasted like kings with champagne and fresh orange juice, strawberries, croissants, bagels, ham and freshly baked pikelets.  The weather didn't really co-operate, treating us to a short downpour, luckily we were prepared!  All in all a great experience, we'll be back next year!

I'm considering now, to throw vertigo and fear to the wind and take part in a bridge climb.