Back in NZ

Michelle and I were back in NZ over last week for my grandmother's funeral. Even though it was a sad occasion it was still good to see all the family again.

My niece, Hayley, decided she wanted to bus into town one day, so all us kids headed off to the bus stop....


Where is Greg? And what am I pointing at?


A very suspicious Greg of course! Hayley, Dani and Michelle spent the day around Newmarket and at the park while the rest of us helped sort through Omi's flat. Hayley was her usual exuberant self!


Later that day I let Hayley have a go of my camera and she snapped this picture of her daddy...


How talented! The rest of the photos were of her feet and the table legs, though... 

Molting Vultures

This last Chinese New Year's Eve Michelle and I went to see one of her friends' partner playing at Glenelg. Its also an excuse to try out video on my blog!



That's him on the theremin!

Weird Creatures

We went on a road trip a few weeks back along the coast and down to Victor Harbour. We took Dan and Karl along, two guys from NZ that I got jobs here in Adelaide. Karl managed to find this lovely specimen along the way...


We thought it might have been a snake at first, but then we saw it had legs (or at least what remained of them!)


Then at Victor harbour Karl got attack by one of our famous giant ants. These things are over an inch long.



Those rocks its standing on? Those are BOULDERS! 

Big Day Out

Well, my new PC is still busted but luckily my old one is still running.

My sister's partner Rio has been performing at the Big Day Out as it travels around New Zealand and Australia and last Friday they played in Adelaide. We caught up with him the night before after we finally tracked him down at the hotel (Hunuki? wha??) and he was able to get us some tickets to the show.

I straight up told my team leader that I had got some tickets to the BDO and he told me "looks like you're gonna be sick this afternoon then" and helped me construct my ruse. A couple hours later and we were watching Scribe (and giving it up for Rio, as requested) in the 35+ degree heat.


We managed to catch up with Rio at the Luciano show. Michelle seemed to enjoy it!


We had guest passes, which allowed us to access the special Guest Lounge (after a bit of trekking around to get the right wrist band) which meant we had clean toilets with no queues! There was also free water, which was a godsend. The regular vendors were selling it at $4 a bottle!

We got to see Scribe, My Chemical Romance, King Kapisi, The Killers, The Streets, Tool, Violent Femmes and a lot more I guess...

The fun didn't end there though! Rio managed to get us into the after party, so we got to hang out with all the stars (really we just hung out with Scribe and his group, but it sounds cool!).

Rio was a bit down cos Kristy couldn't be there...


But we cheered him up! They are looking to come over to Australia again soon and hopefully can make it to Adelaide too. Hopefully? I mean definitely!


What a cool day and night! It was definitely a bonus to catch up with Rio (other stars be damned!) and I can't wait til Kristy and Rio can come back and we can show off all the attractions of Adelaide!