Meghan & Owen

Fraser Island and Brisbane

2011-07-12T18:05:00.000-07:00

Well we arrived back to Sydney only to head up the coast for two weeks visiting some mates. We spent the first week with Giles and his friend Ben hiking around Fraser Island. Then we headed down the coast with the Canberra boys to Kirra Beach and had a few relaxing days.
On the ferry after a nights camp and a view of fraser early morning
First visit to Lake Wabby and the sandblow
Walking north up east coast of the beach
Ready to begin our second day of hiking
In the Valley of the Giants - there were some massive trees in here and what we think must have been a closed trail by the amount of things we had to climb over and through
On the lookout over Lake Wabby and the sandblow
Lake McKenzie
A storm rolling in (they blew through quickly thankfully)
The brightest and biggest rainbows of the trip
On the mainland - 60k and a few hitched rides later
Looking lovely after a week of no showers!
Fuzzy pic of the sunrise (I couldn't be bothered staying up long enough to get a really good one)
On the balcony at sunset
Just south of Kirra is Snapper Heads where we hung out and swum and the boys had a try on Gile's surfboard

End of the US trip

2011-07-12T17:51:00.000-07:00

Ahhhh.... belated as ever but two posts in one day is pretty good for me. Here are some pics of the last little bit of our time in the states.
At the butterfly house in St Louis
Last week in Lawrence with Merc people and old KU friends and the drive to OKC from KU.
Top golf in Dallas with the family.

Back in the States

2011-02-03T17:06:00.000-08:00

So... as usual I'm slow, but these are for you Sue!
Not long after we arrived in the states we went for a hike with my parents in the Wichita Mountains, the pics from the top will have to come later as they are on my parents camera!

Xmas eve pics
After rockclimbing in Dallas
Rollerskating with the fam!

For New Years we headed to Chicago to visit Liane who had a beautiful view from her apt. We also ventured briefly into the city and went to the Chicago Art Institute and Millennium Park.

After we arrived in our main destination in Lawrence we began to get some snow! These aren't even pics from the heavy storms (we didn't venture outside on those days).
This is a pic of the apartment blocks like ours.
(And I had to include an early pic of our cardboard box bookshelf which has been modified with supports)

The second week in town Kim came to visit and we stopped at a few memorable uni pubs and went to Sandbar where you get beautiful little sharks in the drinks. (don't mind the sideways pic...)

This past weekend while it was warm and when the first batch of snow was finally almost all melted we went out to have a look at Clinton Lake. It was frozen solid.
And we can't have all these pics without one of my randoms (well you know minus the plain ice one...)

oh catching up again!

2010-10-25T21:30:00.000-07:00

So a fair bit has been happening here. We've done a weekend away in the Southern Highlands and stayed at the 'Artists House' in Bundanoon. Had another weekend up the coast in Somersby at Laura's farm for her bday. Giles came down to Sydney and we enjoyed a fantastic music festival (in the rain, yay for ponchos, although we were still covered in mud!) And to finish it all up, Owen and I paddled in the Hawkesbury Canoe Classic. Unfortunately we finished early due to the end of the race being cancelled due to bad weather, but it was still just under 100k. We realized a bit late that we were def in the wrong handicap catagory and that we should have started about an hour earlier! Oh well... something to remember for next time. There were some parts of the paddle that were gorgeous, still water with beautiful reflections. And then near the end... and all the rain... and wind... and high tides, ugh...! But we enjoyed it.

Canoe classic pics:

Walking down to middle harbour where Owen teaches sailing, you can't even imagine that the predictions are all for rain and storms!Our lovely boat and before the start:

Our start group, if you can see, note we are the only ones in a plastic kayak! oops! At our finishing point, lots of mud behind us!

Parklife:

Laura's Birthday:

Bunadnoon:

Biennale of Sydney and more...

2010-07-16T18:07:00.000-07:00

As usual we haven't been taking too many pics! So here are a few from the Biennale of Sydney, a biannual international art exhibition that is located in 7 venues across Sydney. Most of you know I have been volunteering for this for the last few months, there are only two more weeks to go. Owen and I went one Friday and I took some pics, unfortunately we are not high tec because some of my favorite works are video works and I have yet to go the MCA (well inside) but plan to do so next week. So here are a few glimpses...

Kader Attia (not the best pic unfortunately! our camera doesn't like dim places- but this is a shanty town that you can walk across)

Serge Spitzer

Cai Guo-Qiang

Choi Jeong Hwa

Kate McMillan

Roxy Paine (this is outside of the MCA)

After we went Owen and I went to high tea. We took maybe 10 pics and this was the only one that wasn't fuzzy! But it was delicious, so much food (you can't see the scones and spinach puffs that we also had!

Most of the pics we have taken are from Cockatoo Island which has a unique history (convict prison, boys reformatory, navy shipyard) so here are a few glimpses of the nature of the island.

Went for a wander on our lazy Friday down to Middle Head and found some interesting ceramic tile benchs.

Also, as a part of the Biennale, they have a performance space called 'Super Deluxe' which has events every Thurs, Fri and Sat night. We went to the first one last Friday (we should have been going to many more and think we'll go again this coming week). We saw some Japanese performance artists called Contact GONZO, pretty good. Before we went Yuriko, Kyoko, Lois, Carlin, Owen and I went out for dinner.

Fall 2010

2010-05-24T17:06:00.000-07:00

Hey there so here are another group of belated pics. We haven't been up to too much this fall and we've been even worse at taking pictures of anything! So I think I'll go backwards here... our biggest achievement this May was to complete the North Face 100k (they do this race around the world but apparently the blue mountains course is one of the hardest) and tough it was! But we were lucky to have gorgeous weather to do it in and it took Owen and I 11 hours each to complete our legs of the race.

Owen and I the night before the race with the course map (unfortunate for the reflection)

Me as the race is just about to start (very casual start and I made sure I was near the end!)

Owen and I at the finish line... almost 24 hours after we got started...

A few weeks before this we went up to visit Giles and Jill in Brisbane. We went to the Caxton Seafood and Wine Festival (it was really just a street party...) and got to hear two bands, this is Urthboy (Aussie hip hop)

Then the next day we went to the Creamfields music festival which was good fun

Summer months catch up

2010-04-06T18:32:00.000-07:00

Seeing as how it's already the second month of fall I should probably put up some pics of the summer! We haven't taken a ton of pics this year but here are a few...

Australia Day celebrations down at the Spit- It was a gorgeous day, went swimming, had a ton of food, and then of course ended up at northside office (the sailing club that our mate tim owns). Early on in the day Jen and Abby were skillfully cutting our aussie water tattoos with a bread knife.

Laura and I

Owen enjoying a VB

Houseboating weekend with the sailing boys, we had a ton of rain and had a nice afternoon swimming in it!

Got to have a new picture of Owen's parents westie, Bruce- he is def the runt of the group and his ears don't stay up as they should but he is a cutie.

Had a mini practice in the Blue Mountains the other day for our 100k (for anyone who doesn't know Owen and I crazily signed up for a 100k trail run in May- we are however, smart enough at least to do it as a team so about 50k each....) We had rain all this hike as well but got a few pictures out of it- The lovely green one is from down in Leura forest and seeing as how I've been there loads of times but haven't actually taken any pics, I took the touristy pics of the Three Sisters.

7 Bridges Walk and Camping

2009-11-06T17:14:00.000-08:00

So I did the 25k 7 Bridges walk with Owen's parents and their friends. Harbour Bridge was first, then we went through the Rocksto Pyrmont bridge (which goes through Darling Harbour)and then to Anzac Bridge. It started raining here and then ridiculously poured hence no pictures after this point!

Last weekend we went camping at Tallow Beach in Bouddi National Park with Giles and Danny. It was a beautiful weekend. On Sat morning while the boys did some early morning fishing I entertained myself by taking way too many pictures! Then we hiked back up to meet Danny- here is a pic of the beach (the campsite is on the left- you can just barely see the path behind the tree).Here is a view from further up the path. And here is Owen and I (Owen is being Napoleon before his hat blew off!) We played some frisbee in the campsite. Here is Owen preparing our dinner on our $4 find cooking stove and Giles and I waiting for the food!

Relaxing at the Farm

2009-10-17T16:13:00.000-07:00

Here are a few random photos, one of Owen and I just chilling one night and another from our table at the Spring Fair.

So this past week we took a break and went down to visit Giles after his return home from Canada. We stayed out at his farm and it was so relaxing and wonderful (even though it was freezing and rained lots!) And... I actually did ride the motorbike but managed to stall it right when Owen asked for the camera and we had some troubles getting it to start again before the rain came back!

The Real Wedding Pics

2009-09-11T20:16:00.000-07:00

Ok so I know most of you that actually look at this have facebook but for those of you who don't here are some of our wedding pics...

Catch Up as Usual

2009-06-06T18:46:00.000-07:00

I've been meaning to put these pictures up for ages!!! We don't really have that many new ones since March but here we go.

One weekend we went camping up the coast with our new tent and we walked to Soldiers Beach from the site. It was a gorgeous and hot day. While we were up there we went to Norah Head Lighthouse (very briefly as it was so hot!)

Round about when Alex returned from Canada we went down to Canberra for the weekend. On our drive home we took a detour (which ended up being a very long detour) but we went to Wombeyan Caves and had a look around.

April 25 (Anzac Day here) we went to the races for Dave's birthday. It was the first time at the races for both Owen and I and we won on the first race which kept us up all day, yay for that.

And finally the puppy! Brad and Sue got a westie named Bruce. He's already bigger again but is a really cute little dog, I miss my puppy cuddles now that we've moved out!

Australian Wedding Celebration

2009-03-18T15:20:00.001-07:00

Here are some pics from our Australian party that we had on March 7. We rented out a room at a pub in Manly which was on the waterfront. We had a beautiful evening for it (a bit hot!) but it was good fun. Owen's cousin Karryn was fabulous and was our 'photographer' for the evening.

Owen and boys: Matt, Danny, Kev, Matt

Meghan with Kyoko and Yuriko

Us with Owen's parents

Owen and I being silly

The Cake

Megs with Kelly and Ben (who live in Brisbane)

Megs with some of the Pasta Zu crew- Simon, Kat, Lucy, Callum

Owen and a few of the sailing guys - Mitch and Ruby

A few that never made it up & Our Trip!

2009-02-25T21:53:00.000-08:00

Hey there so it has been ages since I've added pics and I've even been procrastinating from loading these photos up! But our wedding pics are now online and I've been motivated to get some of these out here! and i've realized that these few never made it up! Here is a summer santa driving through the neighborhood- I think it was really a fundraiser for something but funny.
These next few are from New Year's Day when Owen and I did a short hike to get to Flint & Steel Beach. We made a rock marker/snowman

Ok onto our holiday now! I really am under my nephew here sledding!

The day after we went down to Forest Park for some ice skating.

While the boys went to the hockey on Thursday night, the girls went out to dinner and to a piano bar. Here are the highschool girls at dinner and then Claire and I at the piano bar.

On Friday morning we had our nails done, the warm water felt wonderful!

And then the rehearsal at Erin's house...

Onto the wedding day! Here we are before we got all dolled up!

Off to London, where while we were one of the first flights that made it in due to a small amount of snow at Heathrow, our luggage was lost! Right by our hotel was The Carpenters pub so we went in for a drink and a photo.

The next day we took the Eurostar to Paris and went for a wander. We stopped by the Pantheon,

Notre Dame (where I was in love with all of the gargoyles),

played in the park behind Notre Dame (the one of me is pretty close to when I flew off!),

and went to Ille de St Louis.

The next day we wandered over to the Louvre

and then we walked to the Eiffel Tower. We got there at sunset and went up to the second floor. Not sure if you can see, but there are people on the stairs. We were lazy and took the elevator up but we walked down.

The next day we went back over that way and went to the Museum of Decorative Objects (something like that). We loved it, and here is a view of some lovely chairs, a view out the window, and Owen and his favorite chair which we now need to get!

Back in London we went to Camden town markets and the Stables during the day. It was freezing and so no photos were taken and we spent the day in and out of pubs. Here we are later in the evening at the hostel we stayed at when we lived there and then we headed off to Dublin Castle for some nice live music.

The next day we went to Selfridges and then to Trafalgar Square as we used to always end up there and I do love the lions! That night we met up with a friend of ours for some pizza and Hagaan Daz (yum!)

Our last day in London was raining and horrible and we spent a large portion of the day at the Tate. I love the installations in Turbine Hall. And the next photo is Owen with some of our favorite art making movements/periods. We bought the Timeline from the shop and I think it is over 5ft long!

We headed off to Singapore for a few days. Owen had a fever and was feeling miserable so we didn't make it out too much. Here is a photo of some big fish outside of the Cathedral and a pic of our 'boutique' room that we stayed in most of the time we were there! And yes we did end up with a pink room and pink walls and pink tiles in the bathroom! Why not the orange or green ones that they have?

Alrighty, sorry this is so massive but there were lots of good pics!

Outdoors

2008-11-11T23:06:00.000-08:00

Heya so here is a bit of a catch up of some new pics- let's see, i guess maybe a month ago (already!?) owen and i went hiking for the weekend. We had some beautiful weather and after some difficulty working out how to get off the train at the correct stop (not only do you tell the driver but you apparently have to be in the last car to get the platform... which we didn't realize and i kept thinking how unsafe it was to have to jump out on to tracks... which thanks to door difficulties we did not do).

At our campsite I decided the rocks looked like a face while enjoying a fire (yay no fire ban!) and waiting for it to get fully dark before we would allow our exhausted selves to go to sleep!

The next day we caught a ferry back towards home and here is a view of all the people out sailing.

Then this past weekend Owen and I went to Bateman's Bay. Unfortunately the weather wasn't quite so nice and we were feeling really lazy, but we did make it down the coast a bit and explored around guerialla bay. I loved the pink rocks in the puddles!

Random weekend

2008-10-11T19:07:00.000-07:00

Hey there so here are a few pics-
First is the finally uploaded pic from owen's bday

Then over the long weekend we went up to Newcastle for a 'this is not art' festival and to have a look around. It was a bit windy! Like the hair?And I've rubbed off this is so not my random photos but owen's! (ok mine is the one that follows though)

We headed down south a touch to Lake Macquarie for some camping. As we only planned our trip on Saturday... we were a bit behind on fully booked beautiful ocean side camping- but we managed at a lake side caravan park and watched a pelican while we ate.

On the way home we stopped off at Avoca Beach for a short wander around.

Engagement party, birthdays and going aways

2008-09-01T21:10:00.000-07:00

Hey there so I've been a bit slack, although truth be told, we haven't taken all that many photos (unless you count the really random ones I took one weekend which aren't really blog worthy)

So here are some photos from our engagment party:

These are the Canberra boys: Chris, Giles, Matt, Kev and Owen

Family Pic: Karryn, Brad, Wendy, Dave, Brad, Sue, Owen, Me, Graham, Troy, Claire and Chris

Sue, Owen, Graham and I

Giles and Alex, two of Owen's good mates, left for Canada a week ago and we hung out with them for a night before they left (which was also the day after Owen's birthday)

Owen, Giles and I

Danny, Giles and I

And later that night we met up with the Pasta Zu folk for Laura's 21st drinks

The Gang: Simon, Lucy, Callum, Jamie, Me and Laura

The Birthday girl and myself

Owen, Laura and I

US Holiday

2008-07-13T21:56:00.000-07:00

Hey there here are some pics from our recent holiday!
We (Owen, his dad Brad and I) started off in LA right by Santa Monica Pier. On our last day there we went to the Getty Center and here is a picture of one of their gardens with downtown LA in the background.Then we headed off to Dallas to see Mike and Jen and we went to La Hacienda which Emmett calls Bear Hunt.After Dallas we went to Oklahoma and my parents friends had a BBQ for us. Look at the Aussie cake they made for us too, talk about some blue teeth after that one!

From there we headed to Tablerock lake for a weekend on the water. Owen, Brad and nephews Conor and Taylor relaxing on the boat. Erin, my mom and I parasailing. The girls. Posing with the Guiness poster.

Back to St Louis to meet up with some friends, headed down to the Russell's vineyard and made it to a cards game. We also managed to make it to the pool with Conor and Taylor. We got to have another get together with my friends where we played some games and acted a bit silly, notice Justin and his matching outfit to their wall paint...

Back again to Oklahoma for the fourth when we went bike riding (see Owen's trick below) and played bocce, very relaxing.

Another few days in Dallas and then....
Off to Waikiki Beach where we had a beautiful veiw from our balcony. Wandering around a bit we found some interesting stuff (statue of the Duke who introduced surfing to lots of countries, was a sheriff, an actor, an Olympic swimmer and also saved some people) and a cafe that reminded me of Jimmy Buffet! We made it away from the beach and climbed up the remaining volcanic crater of Diamond Head. After that it gets a bit exciting, Owen asked me to marry him in a park under this tree and we celebrated that night by having some really nice cocktails and tapas.

Cinco de Mayo Fiesta

2008-05-07T22:20:00.000-07:00

hey all- so owen and i randomly decided to have a cinco de mayo party and it went really well! here is a look at some of our shenanigans...

Kyoko, Kelly, Yuriko and I

Josie and I

Kyoko and Jackie

Owen and I

Cath, Josie and I

Michelle, Sacha and Emma

Cath, Josie, Emma and I

Kat, Simon, Cath and I

Us again...

Kayak for Kids, On the Water

2008-04-02T21:11:00.000-07:00

Right, so they posted the pictures from on the water. Here are some pictures of the three of us, team 103. To help you in the few with other boats I've no hat on and I'm sitting in the middle and Owen has bright blue shorts on in the back. Although the first one is little and I've no clue where we are!

another random catch up bunch

2008-04-01T16:03:00.000-07:00

hey all- so i figured while backtracking i might as well backtrack a bit more... sorry for the quality of the photos, they weren't the best to start off with and then i scanned them in...

Owen's holiday party (there was an 80's party on the other side of the skiff club and tim and i decided to have a bit of fun with the ribbon)

Here's a cute pic from tassie that a friend posted on facebook

My lovely get up in front of 'Scared Stiff', before my first experience on a skiff, which went all right considering the strong winds!

and onto our houseboat trip from the beginning of Feb!...

Mark and I on pirate night

Some of the beautiful weather

The girls (Cait, myself, Julie, Gemma, Tara) and midori

The boys (Giles, Mark, Owen, Alex)

The weather we had a large portion of the time!

oh and looking online i found a good picture of our start from kayaking race!

A bit of a catch up!

2008-03-30T15:17:00.000-07:00

Hey there... so it's been awhile but here are a few random photos. I can't even remember the boats names properly! I think it was the Queen Elizabeth 2 and the Queen Victoria boats that were both in Sydney Harbour together.

Random shot of Owen's family in the Blue Mountains before we went for a hike.

Kayak for Kids!!! Before the race....

It was really fun, well the first hour felt great. At hour two I have to say I was a bit tired, then on the last leg a westerly came in and it was a bit hard going from the wind and because we were all so tired!! We did well though, we came in right after the third place men's boat and we think we were the fourth or fifth of the mixed boats. Our time was around 3 hours 15 minutes! After the race....

They were taking lots of photos while we were on the water so once I work out where those are posted I'll let everyone know!

BBQ and a night out in manly

2008-01-14T15:27:00.000-08:00

Hello all- this might be the last post for awhile, I think our camera has reached the end of its lifespan- which isn't too bad as we were planning on getting a new one, but it is rather bad in terms of taking photos and having them instantly for the computer....

neways.... here are a few random pictures from our Christmas Eve BBQ and Christmas day with Owen's parents.

Cameron's friend from St. Louis just moved out to Australia so we met up for a night in Manly.

Tasmania

2008-01-06T19:29:00.000-08:00

Ok so we've just come back from this fabulous trip where we took millions of photos! and as we went so many different spots i can't resist putting up too many photos!! Plus I'm a big dork and I've made a mini map of Tassie- we started at the mid bottom dot which is hobart, went over to the lower right dot which is marion bay where falls was and then back to hobart and follow the line in a clockwise direction and that's where we traveled!

Our first day in Hobart we were lucky enough to have a few of the boats from the Sydney to Hobart race arrive. This is Wild Oats, who have arrived first the last three years in a row.

We took a shuttle bus to Marion Bay for the Falls Festival. Three days of camping and music as well as new years. This is the gorgeous view of the main stage.

There were so many people there. This is a photo of one of the four or so sections of camping areas, all packed full like this.

We ended up with a great location and spent the early afternoons watching the second stage from our tent.

Here is a picture on New Years Eve of Sacha, Emma and I. Emma and I went to uni together and it was fun to meet up.

After Falls we headed west and stopped at Derwent Bridge where we went for a wander around Lake St. Claire National Park.

From Derwent Bridge our next stop was Strahan. But on the way we went to Nelson's Falls,

and we even got a picture of Owen in front of Mt. Owen just outside of Queenstown.

After having lunch in Strahan we went for a bit of a drive and found Henty Dunes (furthest dot on the left) it was very tiring to walk on such fine sand!

After a bbq dinner at the campsite we went and sat on the beach to read and wait/watch the sunset.

From Strahan we drove North to see Cradle Mountain National Park.

We drove further to Devonport for lunch on the beach and then we camped just outside of Launceston. This bear head just cracked us up and apparently you can have tea parties inside? Very strange thing to find at a caravan park...

On our way to Bay of Fires we stopped near Pyengana at a lovely cheese shop and to walk through lovely rainforesty area to St. Columba Falls.

Here is a photo of our campsite at Bay of Fires, I took this standing right in front of our tent.

It was quite cloudy here but still absolutely beautiful. We drove up further north a bit (top dot on east coast) and walked along the rocks covered in orange lichen.

The next day we drove down, with a few stops, to Freycinet National Park. We hiked in with our packs to camp in the park. This is a view of Wineglass Bay from the lookout point. We camped just behind the end of the beach that you can see.

A few random photos of us on the beach.

Lots of wildlife. There was a wallaby family always around our campsite. We were lucky to get a photo of the baby having a feed.

Later on in the day we were lucky enough to also see a wombat (only picture we got you can't see his head!) and a seal resting on the rocks. The seal went for a bit of a swim and this is when it returned to the rocks.

Here is a picture close to sunset, I love when the sun rays come through the clouds like this.

And last but not least, before heading to the airport when we were back in Hobart we drove up to the top of Mt. Wellington to take some photos of Hobart.

Catching Up

2007-12-02T19:21:00.000-08:00

Hey- so I haven't added many photos lately. We haven't been up to too much but what I do have a few pictures of are from pubs and random ones from a day off. This first photo are two of the results from the woodfire at Sturt. My piece is on the left and Owen's is on the right.

So we went down to Canberra to have a big Thanksgiving and afterwards went out to the pub with some of Owens mates. This is of Owen, Chris, Jemma, Mark, Mel, Tara and Matt.

On a day off Owen and I took the ferry to Watsons Bay. There are some fish and chip restaurants and a beer garden (where we ate) right when you get off the ferry. While waiting to go home we took a walk and I took some of my random photos because it has been a long time! This first one is a view from where we ate of the ferry drop off point and the city in the far background.

This one I love, it is of a glass bottle that has clearly been in the ocean for a long time as the green is growing off of the bottle.

This photo is of the swimming area, I thought the metal shark protecting poles looked nice with all that is growing on them.

Finally here is a picture of Owen and I waiting for the ferry to arrive to take us back to the city.

Finally, this past week we went to our uni for the graduating students show. The opening night was fun. This is a picture from the afterparty, taking a break from dancing; Leticia, Shinae, Cath, Patrizia and myself.

A Few Gatherings

2007-11-12T15:31:00.000-08:00

Not much has been going on lately but there have been a few get togethers. Dani, who I worked with, returned to europe last week. Before she left we had a dinner and some drinks at Yuriko's. (not sure why the photo is so yellowy.....)

Then Tim and I once again celebrated our birthdays at the lowenbrau. We went first to dinner and then off for a few steins and some sing alongs. This is Tim, Lee and I, all of their Movember moustaches were cracking me up!

And... not the best picture of Owen... but that's our one from the night!

Sturt Wood Fire Weekend

2007-10-21T01:29:00.000-07:00

This past weekend we were lucky to go to Sturt, an art school south of Sydney. We were involved in a wood fire, raku and saga fire with visiting artist Bede Clarke (who teaches at Mizzou, small world!). The first two pictures are of Sturt outside.

And then a not so lovely photo of us at the caravan park that we camped at.

This is the kiln where we did the wood fire. Both chambers were packed and then the doors closed in. We started the fire at 6 pm Friday night and finished adding wood around midnight on Saturday. It's all closed up and will sit until Thursday when they will open up the doors. As the fire got hotter and the night darker the flames looked fabulous.

This last photo is a bit fuzzy but is of Owen and I with some of his classmates and Bede.

And I've Graduated!

2007-09-15T22:00:00.000-07:00

Well I have finally 'officially' finished my masters of art admin course. This weekend was the graduation and celebration weekend. Here we are before the ceremony began (Josie and I).

After the thankfully short ceremony we went outside and took a few pictures with Josie, Owen and his parents.

Then it was off to a pub crawl.

And finally.... no this has nothing to do with graduation, but we uber cleaned the apt last week and while it was clean i took a few pictures. But they don't really provide much information so I thought I would just attach a view of the wall in our lounge room.

Day Off!

2007-08-28T03:06:00.000-07:00

So it has been absolutely beautiful here the last few days. Today Owen and I went to Shelly Beach, a cove near well known Manly Beach. This first picture is taken from Shelly Beach of Manly.

Today also happened to be the day of the lunar eclipse. Sadly with no tripod the photo is a bit fuzzy, but that reddish spot is not a random light but the moon. Not as crazy as I was expecting but still good.

Owen's Birthday Cake

2007-08-25T00:12:00.000-07:00

This would be my lovely decorating capabilities. I had a little difficulty this year and ended up being creative and making Owen a monkey Birthday Cake.

Emma's Bday

2007-08-19T23:05:00.000-07:00

I was going to wait as this week is Owen's Birthday and just put all the pics in one post, but why not make it two? This is Emma, Gina and I at the Rose Hotel pub. We all went to uni together. I'm not a very exciting writer about these things..... it's probably best for me to stay away from rambling stories that somewhat have to do with the pics!

Quick look at the new haircut

2007-08-15T00:28:00.000-07:00

Here is a picture of my new haircut. A girl from the cafe was back visiting from Japan so we went out to eat dinner at a really good Czech restaurant. This is a picture of Yui, Kyoko and myself.

Birthday and a bit of Travel

2007-08-13T01:54:00.000-07:00

A group of us from the cafe celebrated Kyoko's Birthday. We went over to Yuriko's place. She no kidding made about five entrees and three main dishes for five of us to eat!!! Too much but it was all good. Here is picture of Kyoko, myself and Dani.

On the couch is Anthea, Kyoko, Yuriko, Dani and Me.

This past weekend Owen and I went down to Canberra to visit his mates. I decided (because I always think about doing it...) that I should take a few pictures of the countryside, from a rest stop of course.

Finally, Part III

2007-07-23T23:55:00.000-07:00

Okay- so the end of February my friend Sarah came back to Australia for a visit with her friend Kaitlin and we climbed the Harbour Bridge which was really good and not quite as scary as I thought it might be. Don't you just love the outfits?? Just as a directional, the Opera House and city are on the right side of this photo. Behind my outstretched hand is Cremorne Point where Owen's parents live and Owen and I live a bit above and towards or past the left side of the photo.

Over Easter holiday weekend Owen and I went up to the Blue Mountains with Giles and Caite to see them at a rock climbing festival, hence me buying a pair of climbing shoes and now Owen and I go about once a week (indoors of course as I'm too scared to do the outdoorsy stuff!!).

Josie and her housemates had a fabulous St. Patrick's Day party. Here we are, sadly the good picture doesn't show all of the green decorations everywhere.

Owen's cousin David had a fancy dress 21st Birthday Bash. This is a picture of Owen and I with his cousin Carin and her boyfriend Brad.

Part II

2007-07-22T23:42:00.000-07:00

So I should have done this backwards so it will fully be in chronological order but this will just have to do. Will start with a few pictures from our trip to the States last xmas. Our trip included visits to St. Louis, Oklahoma, Dallas, San Antonio, Chicago and of course the lovely LAX airport.

This is my mom and I ice skating in Oklahoma City. It was a really nice night out and lots of fun especially as there was only one fall between the three of us!

While in San Antonio Owen and I went to the Buckaneers Saloon and Museum (something like that). They pretty much have every animal you can think of taxidermied and a wild west museum area as well as the saloon area.

Off to Chicago, here is a picture of Liane and I from New Years, which it was absolutely freezing that night and I realized how I really was thankful that it was unseasonably warm during our visit.

This is Owen and I outside of the first Bure we stayed in. It had a beautiful view of the ocean which was to our left.

These are two Aussie girls, Michelle and Tanya, who were on the same tour as us so we hung out on all of the islands.

This final picture is the view from the summit of Kuata. We went on an early morning hike and it took us about 30 min. to get to this point. Beautiful though and nice to be doing some exercise after a month of holiday!!!

Well Here Goes...

2007-07-21T01:39:00.000-07:00

Ha ha... am attempting to start a blog after some requests for me to do so. And I've just cleared out what I had, good start hey? Well seeing as how we haven't taken any pictures in ages I'll do a little backlog of what's been going on. We'll start off in Port Douglas snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef.

Later that Fall Owen and I made a trip to the Blue Mountains with an English friend from camp while she was visiting Sydney. The Blue Mountains are so nice and it's only an 1.5hr drive.

One beautiful day last winter we went on a walk from the Spit to Manly, which is Middle Harbour walking North. Can't remember exactly where we were at this point but I think we are looking at North Head.

Come November we celebrated my birthday as well as Tim's birthday at the Lowenbrau, a wonderful Belgium pub that serves litre sized beers!!! Trouble...... This is a picture of my uni friend Josie and I.

Owen and I also went to Taronga Zoo for my birthday and this koala looks about how we were all feeling after the night at the Lowenbrau.

Ok will continue on with our holiday trip to the US last xmas up until nowish next time!