Australia - Adelaide

Sylvie's 2nd Birthday - Present time!

Birthday cake by Aunty Gabs:

Botanical Gardens: Northern Lights:

Outing to McLaren Vale:

Fish and Chips at Grange:

Mum's first swim in about two decades:

Milk and Beer mmmmm:

Dumpling King!

Australia - Melbourne

A very brief stop in Melbourne to visit old friends, drink some wine, and visit the MCG. Wish it could have been longer!

New Zealand - Timaru Highlights

The Rabbit Hunt

Gabrielle's goal for 2010: Hunting, killing, preparing, cooking, and eating an animal.

The location: Maungati

Wikipedia says:
Maungati is a lowly populated locality situated approximately 18 miles southwest of Timaru in the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. It is a small farming community in an area with primarily sheep and cattle farming and some deer farming, and it has a 9 hole golf course and Maori rock drawings.

Maungati comes from the Maori Language words "maunga", meaning "mountain", and "ti", meaning 'cabbage tree', and thus means "mountain of cabbage tree". There are many cabbage trees in the area.


There are also many rabbits.....

My first bunny:
The biggest bunny:
The haul: Preparing the rabbit:

Cooking the rabbit:Eating the rabbit (Mmmm):

New Zealand - Wellington Highlights

We spent a fantastic three weeks in New Zealand in February and March. Highlights included surprising Miss Bean, hanging out with Lily and Oscar, checking out the baby bump that Erin and Che are cultivating, going on a rabbit hunt, hitting a few tennis balls, working on 'the list', walking around the Eastern suburb hills with Ms Morison and supporting the Phoenix at the cake tin.


Walks around the Eastern Peninsular:

Hamish visiting the clan @ 132:

Yellow Fever at the Cake Tin:

Ngaio School Fair:

Barbie at 393 Jackson Street:

Last night at 132: