A Welcomed Sight

I validated my word count this morning.  The current count is 51,581.  I’m going to try to up that a bit by midnight on the 30th but at least I’m officially finished.  Whew!  This was probably the most stressful run at NaNoWriMo for me.  The biggest part of that is that I end up doing [...]

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November Update

We are almost at the end of November and I’m still not finished posting about my Australian vacation.  I will continue posting about Australia in a day or two.
During the month I’ve also been participating in NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo.  The first I have written about many times.  It involves writing a novel of a minimum [...]

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Lord Nelson Brewery–Sydney, AUS

One of the places we had considered staying at when we were planning the Sydney part of the trip is the Lord Nelson Brewery and Hotel.  The Lord Nelson is one of a handful of pubs that claim to be the oldest pub in Sydney.  It is located in The Rocks, which as mentioned previously, [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving, 2009

I am a couple of days behind in my NaNoWriMo word count and I am at my daughter’s for Thanksgiving dinner so I will leave you with wishes for a wonderful, safe, and peaceful holiday.
I will also leave you with a link to a previous Thanksgiving Day post from 2007.  It is called Giving Thanks.

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Sydney Sights–Australia

The second day in Sydney, we checked out of our hotel but left our luggage stored there because that was the night we were staying at the zoo.  That gave us from ten in the morning until seven to keep busy.  We ended up walking a very few blocks from our hotel to Darling Harbour.  [...]

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Sydney–Australia

Our last stop on our Australian vacation was Sydney.  When we planned the trip, there really was nothing in particular that we had on our list to do when we got to Sydney.  Shortly before we left for the trip, Tony did find an overnight stay at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney.  He booked that [...]

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Kuranda–One More Look

A few random shots of Kuranda before we move on to Sidney:
The white bird you see above was only one of many birds that live in this area (rain forest in Australia).  He was not restrained  in any way.  He was free to come and go as he wished although there were food and water [...]

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Sometimes…

…you have to breathe a sigh of relief and consider yourself lucky.
Tina was in a car accident early this afternoon.  I was three blocks away when I got the call so I literally ran the three blocks to where she was.  After a while (there were six cars involved so it took police a while [...]

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Kuranda, Queensland–Australia

Some more pictures of our visit to Kuranda.
 
Jack the Ripper, shown above, was taken out of the group crocodile enclosure and quarantined after killing four of the crocodiles he mated with.  He was promptly taken out of circulation (not prompt enough for the last three!) and nicknamed Jack the Ripper.  He is about 18 feet [...]

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Kangas!

Finally we got to see kangaroos in Kuranda.  Not only did we get to see them but we got to feed them and touch them and be chased by them.  They are very docile and petting them feels a little like petting a German Shepherd. Tony has the pictures of me feeding them because he [...]

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