The last few months have been rather uneventful as far as I remember. Mum came to stay for a couple of weeks which was great.
We went to Canberra for a long weekend. I'd not been before. It has a bad rap for being a totally boring town but it was actually really impressive. We went to the Anzac day service in the drizzle (memorial day) since it was Anzac weekend. It was quite moving. Kevin Rudd gave a speech. No security. Walked around the National War Memorial afterwards. Went to Parliament. Went to the National Museum. Went to Questacon (Science Museum). All really good except the very dodgy museum food. Stayed in a somewhat bizarre apartment. Visited Sharon's schoolmate Meredith and her new baby and family. All in all very impressed with Canberra.Before that Mark and Tara were here for a visit along with some of Sharon's aunts and uncles from South Africa who were here for Purim. After that Anne and Irwin came from California and were here for Pesach. Before that Marcus came over with Ben from Israel. It was good to see everyone.
Lily terrorised and charmed them all.
Today we walked to the beach to find that it was the Bondi Barefoot which is a series of races in the soft sand at the top of the beach - 4Km and 10Km. There were people seriously running faster than I could on tarmac - quite bizarre. This one guy in the lead had this just enormous stride. Felt all motivated for a little bit and then got tired walking home so had a nap.
Kids have started playing AFL as the season started a few weeks ago. Sharon has been taking them to practice every week and to the 8am Saturday morning starts all over Sydney. Lily had to have her uniform shortened somewhat but is very pleased with the overall look. Sharon decided not to play rugby this season given that some of her team were nearer in age to Ariel than to her and given last season's injury stats. Anyhow she is now playing for a women's over 35s soccer team. Today we went to watch. Seems more sensible to me but she is missing the running into people and sheer physical brutality that Rugby provided.
February marked our two year anniversary in Sydney. Seems to have been a good move on the whole. Sharon and I took a week off by ourselves to walk the Milford Track in New Zealand known as the finest walk in the world. Fabulous week and stunning walking. Spent a few days in Queenstown on the South Island too including a half day going down a load of river rapids on a boogie board. All good fun.
That'll do. I'm going to be travelling again for work over the next few months after a break for about a year. Vegas in a couple of weeks followed by a week travelling the States and then probably again in July and possibly in Europe.
Lots more photos available at here: http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/Ben.Berger/May2009?authkey=Gv1sRgCMrf043mjOmSVA&feat=directlink
