Ellie and I have been going for walks on all my days off, unfortunately it`s too dark to go when I get home on day shift and i`m usually not in the mood on night shift. Today we went up the fire trail which you can see coming down Old Cooma road as you turn into Candlebark :
But Can`t really see it from the front of our house :
We walked up and on the way we found a dam :
Found a dam
So we walked right up to the top, it`s a bloody steep walk, Ellie got to see a Kangaroo, she was fascinated, unsure what to do until it bounded off and then she decided to bark :
View from the bottom
and took some photos :
From the top
Our House, Old Cooma Road and Karabar in the background
Our House right behind the gum tree in the middle
What`s on the other side of the hill :
Old Cooma Road
I`ve also made a list of all the walks we take Ellie on you can find it here
Anyway the wife is home and i`d better go socialize. Bye.
Three years ago today I married the most amazing man ) Thought I’d share a couple of a wedding photos (now that I’ve worked out how to upload them ).
This first one is one of my favourites!!
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We’ve had a lovely day today, Daniel took the day of work so that he wasn’t working night shift so I decided to take the day off too. We actually spent most of the day car shoppping, the Hilux didn’t happen on account of it being considered a commercial vehicle. We are now looking at the Holden Captiva 7 SX, fingers crossed.
We took Ellie for a walk around the river this afternoon, she had a lovely time chasing ducks and cockatoos. We had a lovely dinner at the Queanbeyan Leagues Club tonight, we were going to open a bottle of pink champagne but have decided to leave it for Friday night.
Thank you to all for the thoughts and wishes for today and thank you to Daniel for being an amazing husband, I love being married to you xxx
We’ve had a lovely weekend, its been so nice to share it with my husband )
Started with a quiet night on Friday night, we did take Ellie for a big walk around the river and then spent the night at home catching up on our TV viewing. Ellie slept she was very tired )
Saturday was a fairly uneventful day as well but we did make to the Toyota dealership to test drive a Toyota Hilux. I was impressed, it actually felt easier to drive being up high, reversing however is a another story!!! So now it just a matter of speaking to our finance people to see if we can make it work, if not then we’ll look for something else. We were actually at the dealership for about 3 hours!! That did include about an hour for the test drive, all I can say is that they have their routine finely tuned, we spoke to 3 different people about various things before we allowed to leave! They did bring the Hilux that we test drove all the way out from Belconnen for us, I was impressed, but I guess they do just about anything to make a sale )
Today has been very relaxing, bit of a sleep in then off to the gym for a work out we’ve both being doing an extra 10 minutes cardio all week to try and work off some of our Easter badness!! This afternoon we went out to Brand Depot to get new sneakers for Daniel, he has just about worn out his old ones, he works them too hard at the gym )
Took Ellie to the park yesterday afternoon and this afternoon for a short walk and then some playtime on the big oval, she was more interested is saying hello to all the people and chasing birds then chasing her toys!!
So that was our weekend, nice and quiet, we were thinking of Mary and Alan today, hope your farewell picnic was fun!!
A while ago, I was telling Adele about a TED Talk that I had seen and she said she had never heard of a TED talk. This kind of shocked me but I understand that not everyone has heard of TED so I thought I would write a short blog post for her.
What is TED From the Wikipedia Entry :
TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a US private nonprofit foundation best known for its conferences, now held in Europe and Asia as well as the U.S., devoted to what it calls “ideas worth spreading”. Its lectures or TED Talks, widely disseminated on the internet, are not subject to a time limit.
TED was founded in 1984; the first conference happened in 1990.
You can find talks and more info and talks at the TED website. I personally just check them out on YouTube. Alot of famous people give talks but I tend to find the real amazing ones are unknown people to me. Here are a few that I found interesting :
Aimee Mullins “How My Legs gave me Superpowers”
Robert Full “Learning from a Gecko’s Tail”
Michael Pritchard makes filthy water drinkable
Thats 3, there are heaps more. Check out YouTube or the TED Website for more. Bye.
The Concert i`ve been waiting years for. ACDC February 18, ANZ Stadium. Tickets went on sale at 9am on the 25th of May 2009. After refreshing the webpage for an hour I finally got 2 tickets at $150 a piece : in General Admission, Arena C : We rocked into Sydney from Ballina at around 2:30. By the time we picked up our car and got to the Marriot Courtyard Hotel in Parramatta, (this hotel should be in Adele and I`s credits : Adele and Daniel choose to stay at the Marriott Courtyard Parramatta, LOL) it was about 5 o’clock thanks to having to navigate Parramatta Road in peak hour.
Adele had worked out from the net that ACDC weren’t onstage till 8:55pm so we headed over the road to P.J Gallaghers Irish Pub across the road, where we enjoyed a relaxing pizza (Adele discovered that fresh tomato is included on a traditional Margarita pizza). Then we headed back to our room, picked up our trusty little point and shoot camera and headed to the train station, we caught the train to Lidcombe station(I have caught a number of trains here thanks to my grandparents living in Livinstone Road Lidcombe), then switched over for the train to Homebush.
Once we hit Homebush it`s the busiest I have ever seen this place. People everywhere, probably not well demonstrated by this shot but : So we lined up to get to the Merchandising tent : An hour later after much discussion about if they would have EFTPOS facilities(they did) we finally got away $80 poorer but richer by one ACDC T-Shirt and an official Program : I have since ordered the ACDC Tie which I didn`t see but it should be delivered shortly.
Next we searched for an ATM and finally found one, then we found some flashing devil horns for Adele, which everyone was wearing : The guy selling these things at$20 a pop must have been making a fortune cause they were Everywhere.
We then entered the stadium and watched the end of Wolfmothers set. Overall, Wolfmother didn`t have the sound mixed correctly so came out a bit distorted. But they ended around 8:20pm so we then waited for half an hour for the main show.
Boy did they not disappoint They came out with Runaway Train from their current album, the middle screen split and a Huge train came through the middle : Anyway here`s the setlist for the Concert :
Concert finished at around 11pm with a fireworks show. We were back in our hotel room by 11:30 which we thought was extremely impressive.
Unfortunately not too many good shots with the camera, should have read the manual for it before we left for the concert. But we had an AWESOME time. Well I did anyway, even after standing for 3 and half hours . Adele had her horns knocked off by an exuberant concert goer who was apologising profusely and then proceeded to nearly sh*t himself when I turned around and asked what was going on. I have video but I don`t think I should upload them for legal reasons anyway.
On our way home from holiday, I sent tweet from the lookout at Lake George saying there was water in it. I received some replies saying that wasn`t much, now that was the best I could do with a camera phone at the time, but here is a couple of shots taken from our DSLR : Note the wind turbines in the background, they are now fully operational.
1st pic taken with the standard 18-55mm lens, the 2nd with the bigger 55-200mm lens.
So thats a little bit better, I imagine the water has probably dried up by now, but thats the most water I`ve seen in Lake George for a long time. Bye.
Whilst on holiday I made it to the Gabba to see a One Day Internationl Cricket match between Australia and the West Indies. Ticket supplied by my sister Clare(Good seats, I feel I need box seats for the next game to top these) as a Christmas present, one of the best christmas presents i`ve ever had, Cheers.
I only had my phone to take photo`s on so the quality is not great, we have since bought a little point and shoot for occasions such as this, but I feel next time i`ll chance taking the DSLR. So now some photo`s : Al in his umbrella hat, he was asked to remove it after a couple of hours, I was going to offer to forcibly remove him from the stadium but he complied with directions.
We got to our seats, just near the side screen at the Stanley St end, I`ve circled in red where we sat(or thereabouts).
The West Indies won the toss and elected to field.
We saw the Gatorade cart come onto the field for drinks.
Halfway through the West Indies innings we saw a sky writer. There were initials but we couldn`t read them.
So Australia ended up on 7/324 after 50 overs and then took to the field, was great to see Ricky Ponting getting a century.
After Gayle got out for 34 off 21 balls it was pretty much a boring game after that. But we did see a few players right in front of us :
Ryan Harris (2/64 off 10 Overs).
Mitchell Johnson (1/54 off 10) came to sign some autographs for the kids.
Adam Voges 16 runs off 10 balls (Great shot I know).
Finally Mike Hussey (42 off 21 balls), dissapointment for the kids as apparently he doesn`t sign autographs whilst fielding. But he did take a great catch right in front of us.
Found some video highlights of the game which should work:
West Indies lost the game, ending up on 8/274, we ended up leaving at the 49th over to beat the traffic. So, big thanks to my sister Clare who provided me a great Christmas present. To my brother Kim for driving us up there in the nice new car. To my Father Al (whose birthday it was on the day), and brothers in law Michael and Shane a big thanks as well for attending with me and enjoying the day. Thats it I think. Bye.
Adele and I decided to go for an adventure last night. We decided to go to the Greyhounds.
The track is just off Hindmarsh drive opposite the Best Western Sundown Motel. $5.50 each Entry fee to get us both in and we settled down to have a bit of a gamble.
We had a great time, we arrived just as Race 1 started. And we got to see a dog cartwheel along, it then picked itself up off the ground and continued.
Race 2, We picked Happy Glow who managed to come in third. Yay we thought, Money back. Until we found out they only pay place for 2nd .
Race 3, Adele`s pick Milly Moo managed to shoot out of the barriers in first: The Greyhound then ran along in the lead till about 3/4 of the way through the race, when it decided to turn around and go back the other way. We were laughing about it and then Adele realised that the owners were sitting behind us.
Race 4 :
- We picked Demon Fighter, but we came in third again. No money back
Race 5 :
The Anytime Fitness Stakes(Huge Cash Prize to the winner of $770) over 440m, we picked Chocolate Cobber initially but was told it was scratched late. So we picked Apidra. Again, Third .
We decided to save our money and head to the Tigers club where we drowned our sorrows in food and diet soft drinks. Still a good night out had by both of us
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