Photo Challenge

I entered this photo of Sarah studying into a competition where you had to take a shot from "looking down". It does give a different perspective of a subject. We didn't win but got in the top 13 and had the photo published on American blog for all to see...

Trinity ball

Last night attended another ball, this time it was Trinitys. All the students were taken down to Fremantle by bus. They had a few photos before they left Trinity...

Janelle and her room mates...Having a good time...

Spring Garden

The roses are about to burst into full bloom with all the bushes covered in buds. Its always nice to see the first ones open...



Not forgetting our annual Bird of Paradise...



We gave this plant (dont know what its called) to Mum J for her birthday, love the orange flowers...

And she gave us this orchid...

Twenty Two

Today Nicole turned 22. She had to have a self inflicked "quiet day" as she wasn't feeling the best after a night out. We went and gave her some pressies and she came over for tea...


Happy Birthday Nicole - love you lotsxxxxxxxxxx

Silver

After a very busy few days at the Uni games Janelle and her relay team won a silver medal. They won it in the medley relay, one runner doing 800m - next doing 400m and then 2 running 200m. Janelle ran the 800m leg...


Janelle thoroughly enjoyed the whole competition and was really happy with her times she ran - now its back to study!

Uni Games

The 2010 University Games are being held in Perth this year so Janelle thought it would be a good opportunity to compete. Yesterday we travelled to Perth to watch her run in the 1500m. Before we went to the track we called in at Trinity to drop off some stuff and be patients to her new "toy" to test our reflexes...

After registering and a warm up all the girls gathered to be put into heats. After the man had called out all the names and given them lane numbers, Janelle and 4 other girls were not called so after a chat they were put in the 2nd heat to make it a large heat with 14 runners...

She ran a great race against girls from all over Australia and was very happy with her time of 4min 51.63. She ended up being the 6th fastest out of the 22 runners and qualified for the final...

As she was representing UWA she finally got one of the little running uniforms she has eyed off for a few years (along with another pair of shorts, t-shirt and jacket)...

Today she ran in the final of the 1500m and came 9th with a new PB time of 4min 49.85. She was really pleased with the result as it is only the start of the season. She has also got the 800m and some relays to compete in.

It is also ball season and on Saturday night Janelle got all frocked up for the annual Medicine Ball...

Crocodile Hunter

Yesterday was a sad day for Australia with the accidental death of an Aussie bush legend and original crocodile hunter Malcolm Douglas. We were lucky enough to visit his crocodile park in Broome many years ago when we lived in Karratha. Nicole visited last year and even got a photo with the great man...


He was a wildlife pioneer and passionate conservationist who like Steve Irwin will be sadly missed.