Floorshow Jack & Joanne

In between processing the holiday pictures, I also made some pictures of Jack & Joanne. They are one of the most talented young dancers in WA (if not Australia):



Find all photos HERE.

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2011 Holiday - Part 2

(As always, some photos are linked in this post, but if you want to see all photos LOOK HERE)

A coupe other highlights were meeting up with Ellen's old rowing group whilst enjoying a pancake in Lage Vuursche:



Catching up with old friends (and their cat:-))



And then it was time to get in the car and drive to Austria (almost 1000km away):



Nearing the end of the drive, finally the Austrian mountains start showing up:



And then finally:



View from our room:



Some people go to Austria in summer to do some walking (like us), some go there do some stuff like this (NOT US:-)):



And finally a 'full view' from our room:




(As always, some photos are linked in this post, but if you want to see all photos LOOK HERE)
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2011 Holiday - Part 1

And yes, here is the first photo-report of our little (or not so little:-)) trip to Holland and Austria. The first night we stayed at a hotel in Noordwijk (reasonably close to Schiphol, to 'recover' from the trip.

This was the view from our room:


Besides obvious highlights of catching up with family and friends, there were two special highlights...

One the 'Blessen' reunion, were we caught up with not only known family (like cousins), but also with a number of family members never seen before (great uncles). See the previous post for some info on that (although that is in Dutch!).

Then another highlight (especially for Ellen:-), was learning how to make a 'chipolata' cake herself. At our friends place where we stayed, Peter (the friend, not me:-)) used to be a 'banketbakker' (confectioner). Oh and not only chipolata, lots of other trade secrets were disclosed!



Besides the hightlights it was also great to visit Den Bosch:


More photos to be found here. Of course when more photos become available they will be added to that set, but also will I add new posts here .....

Reunie (sorry, Dutch only:-))

En ja hoor, eindelijk heeft ie dan zijn fotos van de reunie klaar ... Ze zijn te vinden op mijn gebruikelijke fotosite, als een aparte set fotos. Ik hoop dat je (sommige van) de fotos leuk vindt:-).

Ondertussen begin ik ook aan de (andere) vakantie foto's, dus die zou je binnen niet al te veel tijd ook op onze weblog moeten kunnen verwachten .....

'Zie' je binnenkort weer!!

Star Championships

And another competition. This time all 4 events we participated in were recorded (Again, great thanks to Martin van der Poel):

New Vogue, L2 (we were 2nd of 5, but we could say shared 1st):


Standaard, L2 (We won, 1st out of 5):


New Vogue, L3 (Yes, this time we beat them:-), we were 1st of 2):


Standaard, L3 (we were 2nd of 3):

Great Western Championship 2011

Another competition back in March. Not all our events were recorded, but two were.

New Vogue L2 (we were 2nd of 3, but only by one vote):



Standard L3 (we were second of 2, but working on it:-)):

Pinnaroo Valley

Realised this weekend that I still hadsome photos from our visit to Pinnaroo Valley early December. Here is one:



And here they are all:-)

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Lake Monger

Time for another photo update of our last outing, Lake Monger. Very nice enviroment to watch (or shoot :-)) birdies ...

Unfortunately we do not know all the names of them, feel free to respond with the names for us!!

This one is easy:



But what about this one:



Or this one:



Anyway, some more photos ... Have fun...

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Unwanted guest ....

Yesterday (after a sweltering hot day) we were ready to take a dive in the pool. Just when walking out we saw something crawling to a small place between the side of the pool and the fence. After some initial identification we called the police first (to ask whom to call:-)). They advised some volunteers (working for CALM, the department for conservation). One of them (George) was the one that was at our house in 10 minutes.

Have a look at the photos here to see the whole story:


After that (if you like) find some more information on these 'guests' here.

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Mandurah

Our little outing to Mandurah, enjoy:



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