Let's make pasta!

Last weekend we went to a pasta making class. Yay! Sydney has a small Italian population compared to Melbourne, but we managed to land ourselves with a true Italian couple. They were so cute, and VERY passionate about their pasta. They immigrated from Italy 10 years ago and have opened a little pasta restaurant in Surry Hills. Now they do cooking classes, which I was so excited to check out after I learned about them.

We made two batches of pasta dough and then we got to play around with a lot of pasta tools.

 

At the end of the class, the restaurant kitchen cooked up our pastas with some delicious sauce and we all had a meal together. It was really fun, and I have to say that our pasta tasted pretty good! It wasn't beautiful, but we got the important parts down. After our pasta lunch, we headed back to the CBD. It was a beautiful and warm day, so we weren't ready to head home quite yet. We happened to notice that the new tunnel to the Barrangaroo development was open, so we decided to check it out. Toby loved it, which might have something to do with the fact that he said it looked like a starship.

It is pretty futuristic, I have to admit. 

Of course, once we were in Barangaroo, it seemed like we should maybe check out the new gelato shop that's opened. Tons of new buildings and shops have sprung up; it's almost like a whole other city over there!

 

 

And then we really needed to walk off all the Italian-ness of our day. So we decided to walk home, going through the Botanic Gardens  and soaking up as much sunshine as we could!

 

  Maybe next sunny weekend we can check out the pool with all the other fabulous people!