West Torrens River Walk

Family Walk along the West Torrens (1/2 between our house and the City).

You can walk all along the Torrens river from the City to the Beach - we've only walked about 1/20th so far - but will one day take in all in.



Lots of Bird Life on the Trail

And plenty of time for Magoo to pose for photos

St Kilda (SA) - Mangrove Trail

The Mangrove Trail - in St Kilda, just north of Adelaide

Adelaide Himeji Garden

Spring is here - so we took advantage of the nice weather to visit some of the Adelaide parks & Gardens - first up was the Adelaide Himeji Garden

Springtime - again

Spring 2009 - once again time for the backyard garden

The usual, lettuce, carrots, and tomatoes - Some in the tubs


And some in the back garden

And the Fathers Day Lemon tree!

West Lakes Duck Pond

Spring is here - (or so they say) - so we headed to the westlakes duck pond for a picnic. The weather turned, and somebody got grumpy.. still We did video tape our attempted Picnic.

Watch at your own risk (might include crying baby!)

Coorong National Park

Took a day trip to the 'Wetlands' of Coorong national park - long drive for a little baby in the car - but it was quite nice - the weather held, and we managed a nice lunch & spotted lots of Birds!

The new Place

The move has completed (mostly) - I've grabbed a few photos of the area. Still a work in progress, but almost all put away.

The backyard


The Kitchen

His Lordships Room
The front of the house

And somebody hamming it up for the camera!

Mt Barker & Stirling Market

Saturday was spent looking at houses, Sunday was spent taking Lyn & Aaron out for the Day.

We first stopped at Stirling Market - held every 4th Sunday of the month - not much there for me, but there were plenty of garden plants, and baby toys to gawk at (we didn't grab either, as we are moving in 3 weeks and not sure of the Garden space - and the toys were a bit old for his lordship)

Anyway, photos below

(A) Getting ready by having a pre-car trip power nap!


View from the Summit of Mt Barker


Aaron and Dad at the summit


Aaron and Mom at the summit

Land of Big stuff - Gumeracha

Everywhere you go in Australia, somebody has build something much bigger than it really should be - such a giant wooden rocking horse

Aaron vs the Kangaroo!

Cleland Wildlife Park

Aaron, Brenda, Dave & Lyn spent the day at Cleland Wildlife park - saw all the usual suspects, Kangaroos, Wombats, Devils, Snake, Emus, Dingos, Wallabies etc

Photos of the day out are below





(Note somebody slept a most of the day!)

Power vs Demons

Its not ALL babies in our lives (although it is close!)

Took the time last weekend to visit AAMI stadium - and watch the Port Adelaide Power demolish the Melbourne Demons! The match wasn't even close!

Sadly, AAMI stadium was build for the Adelaide Crows - who get about 45,000 fans per game - and the Port only average 25,000 so the stadium was a bit empty. But the footy was good, and for $35.00 I'd go again!








David

The Last night out before baby

Well, unbeknown to us at the time - this was going to be our last night out before we were parents. It was a night of Comedy - Rich Hall / Otis Lee Crenshaw was playing at the adeliade fringe - and we had seen him before - both live and on TV

Below is the last photo of Lyn before Aaron was born on Sunday 15/3/09




Things are a bit hectic with the newborn at the moment, but bear with us - Baby photos are coming!

Slack-o-blog!

No excuses! I've been slack in the blogging department. Its not that we aren't doing anything.. we are!

But its not always the most photogenic... (did you really want a photo diary of our trip to Toys'R'us looking at baby gear?) I didn't think so.

Anyway, we've got a good chunk on the basics sorted, so if young boris/doris should spring upon this world early, we'd be prepared.

Now i know some of you (mom!) are worried when I mentioned a 'nautical' theme to the baby gear - so in order to allay peoples fears, I've asked Charles to model a few of the baby items.

First up, you can see Charles in the baby bath -with a few starfish and other cartoon fish


Next up - a plain baby pram - no fish!



And then a change table -with a few cartoon fish.



So - its not nearly as Jacques Cousteau as it sounds on the phone.

I've got a few other pieces of baby furniture to show - but there was a slight mismeasurement with the shelves, so I need to re-glue and re-paint a few bits!

Till next time!
David