Friday night we left work a little early to drive up to
Ken Duncan's gallery in Gosford to attend a presentation by
Frans Lanting.
That's Frans in the grey shirt signing our books (we bought all 3 of his books)!
The presentation he did was good (although a bit political), but really the photos spoke for themselves - he has some AMAZING wildlife photos!
We also got to meet Ken Duncan! He was dressed like he was going to a luau, but such a nice guy. He is the country's top photographer of Australian landscapes - it was fantastic to meet him & have a little chat!
My favorite Frans photo 'Emperor Penguin Family'- these penguin parents are having a 'welcome' ceremony for their new chick - cute:)
Murray's favorite 'Cougar Face'
Sunday we went on a walk out to North Head - this was the view looking back at Manly from the hill
Murray, Me, Steph & Matt with Sydney in the background
Me, Sparky & Sydney
Notice the Manly Ferry coming in!
It was a long but lovely walk, we really took our time and spent time enjoying the views & chatting, followed by a LOVELY crepe breakfast. Beautiful weather as well - quite hot actually!
Sunday we enjoyed a BBQ at our friends Laura & Mike's place. Megan & Jon brought along sparklers to go with the lovely cake she made for dessert & they wished me a happy b-day which was nice:)
Laura, Megan, Me, Jon & Mike
A lovely weekend catching up with friends & enjoying the weather - I hope this weather holds on for awhile longer. You can't beat these 80 degree 'autumn' days!
We celebrated New Years Eve at Taronga Zoo with Matt & Steph
We also REALLY enjoyed Steph's amazing guacamole
Our view of the harbour from the zoo - lovely
Even though it was past Genna's bedtime, she had a good time playing on our picnic blanket
SUCH a happy girl
even after being hours & hours up past her bedtime and refusing to nap!!
attacking Sophie
Genna having a bit of dinner under my lovely 'bubba cova' (feeding apron)
Me with Genna in the stroller after FINALLY laying down for a nap. She wouldn't go DOWN in the stroller, but she did eventually pass out face down on my shoulder then I was able to lay her down for a sleep.
The 9pm family fireworks - little miss looked QUITE scared. So after this photo Murray took her away from the overwhelming view.
Fireworks!!
Cuddling with Mama as the night went on!
We had a slug infestation on our picnic blankets - Murray even smushed one with his hand - ewwww!
Our little lady did really well. She was up MUCH later than we'd like, but she slept on the way home and over a couple of days caught up on sleep and got back to normal. Such a good good little pumpkin:) It was great to welcome 2011 with good friends in a cool venue like the zoo! (p.s. the monkeys did NOT like the fireworks - they were screaming like crazy!)
