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Index of Contents (Click here) or click here to see entire blog...
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It is Autumn here in Sydney and today the forecast was for 19 degrees and sunny...the first cool'ish day here. In the morning we went with Kims family to the cemetry to visit Kims mum. After this we were planning to head up to the Blue Mountains to Mt...
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Today Kim and I went to the Lyrics Theatre to see the 'An Officer and Gentleman' musical. It was a remake of the 1982 movie, but on the stage. It was ok but nothing special. The acting and singing was great, but the screenplay itself as well as the music/lyrics...
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Kim is pregnant again and we are now halfway there and on Monday we went for the halfway scans (due late September). Everything is on track and looking good so far (5 fingers and toes etc.). For the first time we were able to tell the gender of the baby...
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Today was Anzac day. We decided to use the day to explore some of the local area in the National Park on the other side of Botany bay near Kurnell. It was very windy (Aiden wasn't happy with the wind). The walk along the coast is easy an quite scenic....
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Today Luke and Alexsandra was married. She is from Serbia so the wedding itself was a beautiful traditional Serbian Orthodox wedding in a small church in Alexandria. The church was very darkly lit and I was shooting using natural light trying to be as...
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Today we went to the Symbio Wildlife park together with some of our friends. They don't have a lot of animals in the park, but the ones they have a pretty cool and it is a good spot to get some nice animal photos (It was especially nice to see that they...
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Synday we took Dylan to the Easter show at Fox Studios. We had bought him a 5 hour pass as a reward for an assignment we gave him. Dylan tried a number of rides, but I think his favourite was a dodge'm'cars. While Dylan was queueing up we had a look around...
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Today we went to High Tea in Audley in the Royal National Park 30 minutes drive from where we live. Kim had bought a 2 for 1 deal and decided to try it. Verdict was that is wasn't anything special and even with the special deal it was a bit over priced....
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I just updated the map of the countries I have set my foot in...now 62 countries. Africa Rene(62) Kim Aiden ? Kenya YES Tanzania YES Uganda YES Egypt YES Tunesia YES Morocco YES Gambia YES Senegal YES Europe Turkey YES Spain YES YES France YES YES Swizerland...
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The island itself is a beautiful place. I took a lot of photos of the lagoon and the beauty of Bora Bora....so many that it would be too many to have in the previous Bora Bora post. With the risk of creating a post full of Blue photos...I had to separate...
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One of the days at Bora Bora we went with a boat around the lagoon to go snorkeling and have lunch on one of the Motu's (Islands). Along the way we went snorkeling in spots where we also could see sharks and stingrays. Our first spot was a snorkeling...
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Bora Bora is a beautiful island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Kim and I had promised eachother that we one day we will go there. It is about an hours flight from Tahiti and along the way you pass a number of other Polynesian islands and atolls....
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I took a lot of photos of flowers...enough to warrant a separate blog entry.. If you are not a flower person then just scroll down the page past these...lots of other good stuff there. Anyhow...I will let them speak for themselves......
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This Easter we decided to go to Tahiti and Bora Bora in French Polynesia in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. We were supposed to have been going to Japan, but we decided that we instead wanted a more relaxing holiday and changed it to an Island holiday...
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It is the 29th February and the last day of the bet I had with Kim....and believe it or not, but Aiden started walking by himself today. We are very proud of him and I am double proud of him as he delivered the goods just in the nick of time...one day...
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Yesterday I did another photo project. I wanted to do something different with composition. I had this idea of a guy being attacked by hand-spiders (I hate spiders) and thought that the garage would be a good location for it. I had an old T-shirt and...
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Aiden is now able to stand up by himself. He is now 20 months and should have been walking ages ago, so he is a bit behind on that front. Hopefully I can get him to take one step before the end of next week...I have a bet with Kim going whether he will...
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Today we went to Centennial Park to take some family photos. I had been complaining that I didn't have enough (good) photos of myself and Aiden so Kim offered to take some. We found a nice spot in the park and managed to take a couple of shots before...
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Last night Kim and I went to the Ronan Keating concert in State Theatre in Sydney. Kim is a long time fan of Ronan and really wanted to see him live. I am to be honest not really familiar with his music but had a good evening nonetheless. The warming...
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Chong brought his Tinny (Australian slang for boat) to Tomakin and every morning the guys went out fishing for a few hours (I only went out one morning because 1. I had to look after Aiden and 2. I am not a morning person). We caught lots of fish, but...
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The house we stayed at had a table tennis table in the garage. We had enough people to form three double teams and we spent quite a few hours playing each other. Kims dad is 78 years old and is still going strong...he loves playing games....
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On the last couple of evenings we went to the beach to do some nice sunset photos. Tomaking is very onique in that it has some beaches that are facing west so you can use the nice light in the evening. We did some family photos (some of which are on the...
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This years christmas family trip went to Tomakin on the NSW south coast (about 5 hours drive south of Sydney). We rented a house with four bedrooms (for 9 adults and 5 kids) very close to the beach and fishing in the river. Fun with this large a group...
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Christmas day we spent at Bondi Beach with Sacha and Mavis and their daughter. We met up at the kids pool at the end of the beach to let our kids have a splash in the water. Aiden couldn't get enough of walking around in the water with myself and Kim...
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