Derek and Sally's blog: September 2009

More birthdays!!

Aidan and Jake had a combined birthday party a few weeks ago. We all gathered at Stephen and Karen's place, and enjoyed great food, great company, and lots of laughter.

Emma has a very infectious laugh, and personality.

Emma was given this gorgeous chef's outfit - the hat didn't stay on for too long.

A trick she learned from Aunty "Kirk" - Pinchy will stick his front paws up when Emma gives him the signal.

Video - Eoin has got great hand-eye co-ordination, and loves kicking balls.

Video - Emma and Eoin love playing together on the swing.

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Hannah turning 1 month, Hon and Jeremy's birthdays

It's hard to tell looking at her, but at Hannah's most recent health check, she had increased her birth weight of 4.1 kg by more than 1kg!!

Hannah has got everyone wrapped around her little fingers..... at last count we were up to 6000 photos at 4 weeks.

We went out and celebrated Hannah's one month "birthday", and Hon and Jeremy's recent birthdays. It was a great night and it was great to have Jeremy there (not on call, and on a short break from his studies)

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Uluru and Kata Tjuta (Ayers Rock and The Olgas)

These are photos from our trip a couple of months ago to Central Australia. We spent 6 days driving around in a campervan, and thoroughly LOVED it.

Even though it was winter, the temperature would reach high 20s, or early 30s by 10am. So we would get up early most days, see the sunrise, do a bit of hiking, and have a little rest between 10ish and 2ish, and catch the sunset.

Sunrise at the magnificent Uluru.

Sunset

Contrary to appearance, Uluru is actually quite "light", and is definitely not a uniform lump of rock.

The Olgas

Kings Canyon and West McDonnell Ranges

The stunning Kings Canyon was our favourite part of Central Australia. A must-do if you ever go to that part of Australia.

We only managed to see a small bit of the West McDonnell Ranges (Glen Helen and Stanley's Gap pictured here), but we were surprised to see how wet it was, despite not having much rain.