14 May 2006

London calling...

I've never been to Europe and to be honest I never really had any desire to go. A recent discussion with my husband reference his impending 40th birthday in January elicited a conversation as to what he wants to do to celebrate. We originally discussed going to Banff in Canada but we don't ski and spending two weeks watching the snow fall, albeit pretty, could get boring. We also don't want to tackle the states again right now considering the experience we had on our recent last trip. Neither of us are interested in visiting Asia or Africa. James wants to go to South America but I don't. So we were basically stuck with Europe.

We have pretty well decided to go to the UK for two weeks at the end of the year. It looks like we will be leaving on the 29th December and will be in London for New Years and then will spend the next few days there until James birthday on the 2nd. We are having the travel agent look into the flights and accommodations. The trip looks to include Scotland and Wales and possibly a stop over in Bangkok or Hong Kong depending what airline we take as we won't be flying United again after the last disaster we experienced with them.

Anyway, this is all in the preliminary stages of planning but I needed something to write about and this is it. I'll keep you posted as the plans become more solid.

12 May 2006

Four things...

Four jobs I’ve had in my life:

  • busboy
  • retail manager
  • restaurant manager
  • Health promotion officer

Four films I could watch over and over:

  • Auntie Mame
  • National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
  • Happy Texas
  • Priscilla Queen of the Desert

Four Places I have lived:

  • New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Dallas, Texas
  • Sydney, Australia
  • Hobart, Tasmania

Four TV shows I LOVE to watch:

  • The Golden Girls
  • Friends
  • Will and Grace
  • Discovery Channel (Travel)

Four places I have been on vacation:

  • New Zealand
  • Boston
  • Las Vegas
  • San Francisco

Four places I’d like to go on vacation

  • UK
  • Denmark
  • Canada (Rockies)
  • Amsterdam

Four websites I visit often:

Four of my favourite foods:

  • Meat loaf
  • Enchiladas
  • Peanut butter pie
  • Chicken Caesar Salad

Four places I would rather be right now:

  • In bed
  • Shopping
  • With my husband
  • On vacation

9 May 2006

Who would have thought???


One of the blogs I read regularly had this to say:

For better or worse, it's the 25th Anniversary of AIDS. Not that it wasn't around longer than that obviously, but in 1981 AIDS was first officially recognized when the Centers for Disease Control called a press conference and reported the first cases of a rare pneumonia and a skin cancer among gay men. Neither disease was unknown, but the combination of the two implied a new syndrome. Read more at Proceed at your own risk‚…

6 May 2006

God I'm slow...


Finally a week later I have the pictures of our trip to Cradle Mountain posted to flickr. So take a look. They are over in the side panel. Just click on any picture and it will take you to the other 94. I hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed taking them.

3 May 2006

What can I say?

Well we made it back from our trip to Cradle Mountain. I will post some pictures hopefully tonight and probably to Flickr. I will have to first say Cradle Mountain was absolutely awesome! However, if I had known that it was going to take us 7 hours to walk/hike over sometimes almost impassable terrain and that we would walk a total of 12.5 kilometers, not to mention that my peripheral neuropathy went beserk and James almost plummeted to his death falling through a snow covered crevasse; I would have to say we had a wonderful time all up. I mean what can I say? Anyway, as mentioned pictures are on there way.