lovely going away dinner at Hampden House last evening.... will begin Sydney, part II in less than 24 hours.
xo.
I visited Schmitt in Hampden this past week and she came up with the utterly brilliant idea that we should go to the Smith and Wesson shooting facility to fire some guns!
Above is my target sheet and the revolver we used.
At first I didn't quite get the concept of lining up the sights, so my first 8 rounds hit the ceiling, oops. Schmitt was a natural shot and after shooting 100 rounds was all ready to shoot a bigger gun: a semi-automatic something or other that was pretty frightening and real real loud.
Above is my target sheet and the revolver we used.
At first I didn't quite get the concept of lining up the sights, so my first 8 rounds hit the ceiling, oops. Schmitt was a natural shot and after shooting 100 rounds was all ready to shoot a bigger gun: a semi-automatic something or other that was pretty frightening and real real loud.
Andy experienced his first new england snow storm...about 10 inches fell.
To enjoy the snow we went on a woodsy walk with Henry and I demonstrated how one makes a snow angel. Though andy was tempted by how fun plopping into a deep pile of snow and doing jumping jacks lying down looked, he resisted and didn't try it out himself. Definitely missing out.
I also introduced him to the lovely feeling of snow going down your neck after getting thwacked by a snowball! But my white wash attempts failed.
The five little pictures to the left were from our walk around Crane Beach and Long Hill Estate.
Nice to be back into the woods for a bit.
Spent the afternoon walking around the lake, (Winslow, Mum, Kat, Andy and I) and persuaded Andy that you could indeed step onto the ice and not fall through, though Katherine didn't help much chiding me from the edge of the lake to be careful with that oh so motherly tone of hers!
went out for the first day of the australian vs south africa test match cricket last week!
watched about 5 hours of the 8 hour match (LONG day).
beautiful historic stands, rowdy crowds, beach balls flying everywhere...
the prime minister kevin rudd even made a cameo in the stands above us.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!
some pics from our lovely new years eve overlooking darling harbour.
some pics from our lovely new years eve overlooking darling harbour.
