The Week in Pictures

It hailed in Melbourne!!!

(Plus look real close and you can see our new plants!)

Tegan's friends Conan&Rachel, Sally&Ian and Jane came down to Melbourne and Jane has come to live with us! (Jane bought with her a widescreen TV, WII and PS3!!!)

Le Croisant celebrated it's 40th Birthday.

Six Feet Under

I finally finished watching Six Feet Under today.

It had become quite painfull to watch - there were just so many awkward moments!

Beautiful ending to a beautiful show.

late ly

Lately I have had this strangest feeling,  with no vivid reasons here to find. 

After constantly seeing this show in peoples "Top 5 shows of all time" lists, I finally watched "The Wire".

Even after only the first season I can see why this show made so many "Top 5" lists.

There is a great write up of each season here: http://sepinwall.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Wire%20season%201%20(Newbies)

He has just started Season 2, so, hopefully, shall I.

Tegan and I went to see Synecdoche, New York.

It was amazing. A cross between Adaptation and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Very overwhelming. I will need to see it again!

Teegs and I saw Paul Kelly, live at the Palais Theatre.

He was fantastic. Vikka Bull sang some of his songs too which was amazing.

I finally finished watching all seasons of Seinfeld - I had actually never seen a couple of episodes from the last season.

There are some great lines from that season:

"There's no solarium. There's no Prickly Pete. There's no other solarium"

"The pig says, "My wife is a slut"?"

Teegs, Boo Boo and I saw the Lions put up a strong fight against St Kilda.

It was the first game we had been to in ages. The jumpers looked fantastic.

For some reason I became obsessed with this song:

And Tegan and I finished watching Survivor Gabon.

I really love Survivor. Every season pretty much exactly the same things happen, but it's still fascinating. We will start downloading the next season soon!!

CAPRIL

This month is CAPRIL!!

http://www.mclarendigital.com/whatiscapril.pdf

Capril was started on "Get This" by Tony Martin, Ed Kavalee and the late Richard Marsland (aka Armitage Shanks).

Since the sad passing of Mars Bar, Capril has been used to raise awareness of depression for men.

North America Trip

I have returned home from spending 3 weeks in North America

I was there as Assistant Coach to the Australian Open Team (the Dingos) at the World Ultimate Championships.

Pictures from Worlds are here.

The team did a pre tour through the US before heading to Canada so I got to check out some sites along the way:

Yosemite:

Vegas:

A Joshua Tree


The Grand Canyon from helicopter




The Vegas Strip


Bellagio Fountains


Saw USA beat up Canada at the basketball!

Vancouver Island with Liz, Boo Boo and Jamie:






San Fransisco:

New House!

Tom, Jane, Holly and Freya came over from Adelaide for a visit


Living Room


Living Room Again


Teegs and Liz preparing Brunch


Short Skirt/Long Jacket Brunch

Wilson - RIP

Sadly we had to take Wilson back to Lort Smith to be put down.

Unfortunately it seems he had a strong dislike to some dogs and would get very aggressive towards them. Despite our best efforts he was uncontrollable around other dogs and with heavy hearts we had to follow the advice of the experst at Lort Smith.

We take solace in knowing that he probably had the best 6 weeks of his life with us. He got to have a steak and a lovely play off the leash down by the Maribyrnong River on his last days.

Thanks Wilson, we miss you.

Wilson

Now that Tegan and I know that we can have a dog at our new house - we got one now!

We got Wilson from the Lort Smith Animal Hospital, which is the same place I got my last dog, Betsy.

Wilson is a 4 yo Lab, but he is a bit smaller than a normal lab. He is very quite and gentle, but doesn't seem to get on well with other dogs so far.

Home Owners!!!

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We found a place! It is a great 2 story terrace with a nice courtyard and a great feel.
Settlement is on the 4th of April, but due to the tenants we might not be able to move in until June 28th. VERY EXCITING!!!

Central Australia Trip

Teegs and I spent 2 weeks over the new year travelling around Central Australia.

We had a wonderful time, despite the heat. Most days involved getting up at dawn, going for a great walk. Then afternoons were spent lounging by rockholes reading a book, when we got too hot lounging, we would dive into the rockhole and then repeat all afternoon. Lovely!

Map of our journey:

We first went to the East Macs and Trephina Gorge. Then we drove down to Uluru and Katajuta, up to Kings Canyon, then tackled the Mereenie Loop to the West Macs.

Us and our trusty vehicle:

Teegs swimming in Trephina Gorge:

Teegs at Uluru:

Teegs and I at the Sounds of Silence dinner - watch the sunset over Uluru then dinner under the stars:

Kings Canyon - we swum at an amazing waterhole behind the tree in the middle of the shot:

Teegs at the top of Kings Canyon:

The Mereenie Loop:

Decoration along the Mereenie Loop:

The amazing meteorite site at Gosse Bluff (140 million years old and 5km wide!):

Redbank Gorge - we followed the freezing water up 6 rock pools crammed in between the gorge walls:

The beautiful Mt Sonder which we walked to the top of - one of the best walk I have ever been on:

Ormiston Gorge:

Teegs diving into Ormiston Gorge (we had seen locals do this before we tried it):

Me diving into the aptly named Ellery Creek Bighole:

Teegs at Ellery Creek Bighole:

Standley Chasm at midday: