Saturday, July 31, 2010

Australia's Far West





These days I am in Perth where my wife is doing a midwifery school. I spend my days taking my son about trying to cram education into him. We have been visiting the museums (natural history, historical, and art), the Perth Mint, and wildlife parks. We done drives north and south as some new friends were kind and lent us a car for the weekend. I especially enjoyed the "Last Days of Pompeii" exhibit at the Museum of Western Australia. I have always wanted to see that stuff they dug out of the ash.
I'll post a few representative pictures.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

The Wonderful Land of Oz

We made it to Perth, Australia after a long series of flights from Burbank to San Francisco to Sydney . . . The Winter weather is really nice, not hot, more like Summer in McKinleyville, CA. Now we are trying to get mind and body back on the local time zone.
Before leaving the LA area I enjoyed my high school's 30 reunion. The high point, though, was an elementary school reunion breakfast at John C. Fremont in Glendale, CA. So fun hanging out with friends made in fifth grade!