I’ve been sick all week. Alec brought me delicious cake from Lindt to make me feel better. Thanks love!
Sydney
RSPCA Million Paws Walk 2009
The RSPCA Million Paws Walk is one of my favourite days of the year. Last year poor Kahlua had an ear infection and couldn’t make it, so this year it was lovely to all go together again.
The girls were in fine form. The sun was out, there were thousands of gorgeous dogs everywhere – what a glorious day.
Google vs eBay Final Netball Match
With Phuong moving to eBay UK, it was time for one last match between our netball teams. It was a victory for team Google, but with sadness as we’re all going to miss Phuong!
Rainbow!
Lovely rainbow over the city.
Gunners Barracks High Tea
My absolutely favourite place for high tea in Sydney is the Gunners’ Barracks. I like to request a table on the balcony for the stunning view (just watch out for kookaburras stealing your sandwiches).
Easter Show
I love the Easter show. I dragged Alec along with me, and I hope he had a good a time as I did. OK, he probably didn’t, but I think he enjoyed some aspects 🙂
Favourite things – the animal nursery, with baby chicks, ducklings, tiny lambs, goats and bunnies… squee! I also love the dog competitions. This year we saw the Best In Show competition. I was happy to see the best Havanese puppy and best Havanese in breed – so cute, but nowhere near as cute as my two of course.
Cakes! Another favourite area of the show. I’m always impressed at the skills of these amateur cake bakers.
And of course … eating… so many tasty things to consume!
Alec in Mountain View
While I was sweating it out at the corporate games, Alec was working hard at Google Mecca. He took my beautiful camera with him to claim tax back and played around with it – including the photo below. It was just too delightful not to blog 🙂
NSW Corporate Games 2009
In a fit of what I can only call crazy, I signed up for the volleyball (!!) and netball teams for the NSW corporate games.
I haven’t played volleyball since .. well, I’ve never played volleyball, so I don’t know what possessed me there. Netball was a no-brainer – except we signed up and then Alec had to pull out due to a sudden work trip – nooooooooooooo!
It was an incredibly exhausting week – netball practice game Wednesday night, volleyball Thursday (we had our butts kicked in all three games), followed by a day of pain on Friday and then … six games of netball on Saturday, starting at 10:45 and ending at 6:30. I don’t think I’ve ever been so tired and drained.
Despite my lack of experience, I really enjoyed volleyball – until a rogue ball hit my arm and it swelled up to double the size, and I also really enjoyed the netball day, even though it was challenging, both physically and mentally.
With the netball comp, we won the three games in our pool but ended up placed fourth over all, so we had to play a quarter-finals game (which we smashed) followed immediately with a semi-finals game against the first seeded team. There was NO way we were going to win this game, and moral went way down. There wasn’t much of a come-back after that. We had to play one last game to decide third and fourth place, and we were just so over it after having our asses kicked in our fifth game for the day that having to straight away play a sixth game was just too much.
I’m super-impressed at how well we did – fourth out of 20 teams, with a team that was not bad, but definitely not our best. And to play six games in a row – I think it was an amazing effort and I was really proud of our achievement.
Erm, snazzy netball outfits.
Volleyball – going for a shot!
The volleyball team.
More New Camera Pics
Just more playing around with my beautiful new camera.
New Camera!
I caved and bought the Canon 5D Mark 2. I’ve been lusting after it for a while and thought now was as good a time as any, so I made the purchase and tried not to freak out while handing over my credit card.
First pics taken on the new camera! Games night at Chatswood.
