Category: Family

Chicken Cooking Jesuses

January 2, 2011

I’ll dedicate the first part of todays entry to my brother. Here is a photo to get you in the spirit:

That, brother-of-mine, was todays lunch. I dedicate every meal I eat at this fine establishment to you, since I know you wished you could have been here eating it with me. Since it’s been a while, I want to reassure you the chicken burgers cooked by Oporto are still fit to be served to God and Lift washes them down like the most ambrosiac dew on Earth. I’ll be eating many more such meals, I assure you, and I shall raise my glass (well, plastic bottle) in your name each time I do.

Ok, with that out of the way, I have a bombshell today for my readers!

Here’s the photographic evidence:

What you say? These are rosellas eating food off the ground with a few pigeons. Someone had put out a feeding platform and the entire flock had turned up to have a feast. And they had no fear, so I was able to get some video. Enjoy:

(Please click here if the video is not showing up)

Today I went to Bondi Beach, Australia’s (and one of the world’s) most famous. The day was young but the sun was already beating down. It was a lovely day to walk through the surf and enjoy the sights.

Since I got a bit of sunburn yesterday I slathered on the sunblock today. It’s a wonder I didn’t slide from one end of the beach to the other 🙂

On the way back I stopped at Bondi Junction and found an enormous mall. It was there I ate my heavenly lunch, as well as admired this three-story tall LED advertising billboard:

One store also sold the biggest blocks of chocolate I’ve seen in a store:

I got back to the apartment just after lunch, and Adam and I watched a UFC pay-per-view live from America. It was… violent!

And now the evening approaches, and pies are in the oven. Tomorrow, I’m off to the Sydney for a bit of strollin’, and a bit of hatin’

(And yes, that’s an obscure joke!)

And Now, From The Other Side Of The Earth…

January 1, 2011

Let us describe this photo simply as “caught in the act” 🙂

Going The Distance

January 1, 2011

This path is part of the walk from Adam’s to the local shops:

A gaggle of rosella’s lives in and around the trees here, and they always cry at me when I walk past as if I am intruding. Here are a few of them on the roof of one of the apartment complexes (there are at least 7 in this photo… can you see them all?):

This morning they were less worried about me, and more worried about this guy:

See how his mouth is open? He was eating something, or rather trying. It was hard to tell exactly what it was, but it was obvious it was giving him trouble. Then he just sort of spat it on the ground and flew away. I went up and was surprised by what I saw. Here’s what the kookaburra failed to swallow:

Today, dear friends, was a day for the races. So off we headed to Royal Randwick to bet some money on the fillies.

There were 8 races in total today, and each of us bet on every one. Being a scrooge, I bet only $0.50 each way on one horse per race, with Adam betting ten times that. I ended up with two horses placing, and Adam had 2 wins and 2 places. My net loss was therefore $6.10 on $8 total bet, and Adam had a net win of $3.50 on $80 total bet.

Obviously his betting skills far exceeded mine 🙂

And what does a man do with a healthy $3.50 profit? Adam bought this:

This is a $4.50 ice-cream so legendary it actually comes in a box! A mixture of normal and white chocolate, delicately shaped like a moebius strip of deliciousness, Adam’s five word review is “Small treat in good package.”

As for me, well I would realize a bit later that I have actually eaten the same dinner every one of the five nights since I arrived. That meal is pictured here:

Given the caloric input I am experiencing, It’s a good thing I can still get this on my pedometer:

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