Travel Bug

Every time we see this clip, we have the uncontrollable urge to sell our house and hit the road.

Birds in my garden

We have a few kookaburras that live around the bush at the back of our house. I took these pictures on the weekend as two of them were taking a bath in our pool. The second picture is of a kookaburra under the water.

Recently we have had a pair of King Parrots eating the berries on one of our trees. They are hard to take a picture of but this is the male of the pair.

A couple of the lorikeets that come and tap on the kitchen window when they want to be fed, they are quite tame.

Fishing and Bridal Veil Falls

Lane at Vivian Park. We got there just in time to see the Heber Creeper roll in.
I've been wanting to take Hana fishing, so today we packed a picnic and went up to the children's fishing hole at Vivian Park. After hours of planning and anticipation, we finally cast our line in and tried our luck. Which wasn't very good, because the pole snapped on our very first cast. Oh well. I patched it back together, and Hana was just as happy dangling the lure in the water. It may have worked out for the best anyway, since I don't know what I would have done if we'd actually managed to catch anything.

After running errands on Thursday, we decided on a whim to go up to Bridal Veil Falls. It was scorching hot, even in the canyon, so we all took off our shoes for a quick wade in the water.

Happy Independence Day!

Here we are at the Stadium of Fire. The kids were really good (what a relief), although that may have had something to do with our "all you can eat" sugar policy. We saw Brooks and Dunn in concert, which I thought was great. Andrew thought they sang an awful lot about honky tonks. Lane danced along to the music and fell asleep for the fireworks. Hana's favorite part was the skydivers who brought the flag into the stadium. Katrina was particularly thrilled to see Corbin Bleu live in concert.

Fun with Katrina

Picnic in the park.

Mutton Bustin'. Hana says she's going to do it next year - we'll see.

Yummy strawberries and cream at the rodeo. It's just like Wimbledon (this is where Andrew rolls his eyes in disgust).

Every summer the "carilloneurs" give a concert on the bell tower on campus, and this year I made everyone come with me. Bribing them with Gandolfo's subs helped.