Mrs Macquaire, Darwin and Modern Art

Today, Kevin visited with the President of Fuji Xerox and then golfed with his dad. I took the kids into town where we walked through the Botanic Gardens and along the waterfront to The Opera House.

We obserevd many very old and interesting trees (many of which Caitlin climbed!). I had a wonderful Vittoria coffee in the park basking in the sunshine whilst the kids played.

In the Red Box Gallery we observed the evolution of life itself. Through DNA we have discovered that we are closely related to Banana's!

This is a first edition copy of Charles Darwins "The Origin of Species".
After our science adventure we opted to get our fix of culture at the Art Gallery of NSW.

The children are huge fans of modern art so we indulged ourselves in this section of the gallery.

Brandon practically blends in to contemporary art!

Caitlin and Picasso!

Kevin arrives...

Tuesday, Kevin arrived in Sydney without his luggage. In his dad's clothes, we caught up with Cooper and visited the Power House Museum where the kids interracted with robots and learnt about steam trains and lots more fun. Then we had coffee at Darling Harbour. It was a gloriuos day as far as the weather was concerned. A balmy 24 degrees. Not bad for winter.

Friends, Family and Food!

The last few days have been spent catching up with friends and family at BBQ's, lunches and dinners. I have to say, some of the most exquisite food. Our chef friend, Sam served us Spanakopita, Tzatziki, lamb, chicken and topped it off with a fine macchiato. Pizza at Aunty Tine's. Spatchcock at Angelo's. Veal cappacio, twice cooked duck and snapper at Il Piave.

Oz Day Four

Taronga Zoo! We met up with Annette (my friend from High School whom I recently connected with via Facebook) and her three children, took the train to Circular Quay and then the Ferry to Taronga Zoo. The kids had a ball related to the Chimps and Gorilla. They saw the new baby elephant, Luk Chai.

Oz Day Three

Met my good friend, Carolyn at Bi-Centennial Park where the mum's drank coffee and chatted whilst the kids played. Patrick got reprimanded by another mum for knocking and kicking her son in the head. Then the kids played cricket, rode scooters in between lamingtons.

Later, we collected Cooper from his house and went to a cafe for food and coffee and a catch up chat. It was great to have all the kids together again!

Oz Day Two

Shopping at DFO...Australians are generally smaller so finding my size in so many fashions was fun. Then I took the kids to The Olympic Park Aquatic Centre. What an impressice centre. It has a 100 metre pool, a 50 metre pool and then a whirl pool with super slide and a massive toddler pool with playground. Brandon and I swam laps whilst and the kids played on the waterslide and whirl pool and Splashers Playground.