Sunday, March 21, 2010

Auntie Colleen!

My brother and his wife Melissa had baby Garrett on March 12th. He is already over a week old and so adorable. Here are a few pictures I have taken off facebook. Garrett Thomas Lindberg is doing great and so are his parents and I can not wait to meet him in a few months when I am home. I will be in Omaha from May 25th to June 3rd. George is presenting at a conference in San Francisco so I am going to spend the weekend there and then come home. I didn't need much convincing to join him on this trip back to the US. Not much new to report here, we did a dive in the shark tank at the aquarium of Western Australia. We got some pretty awesome pictures of it on facebook. The sharks are huge grey nurse sharks but they can't eat you because they have to swallow you whole, or at least that is what they tell people to convince them to get into the water... Check out my handsome nephew!


Monday, March 1, 2010

Happy Labour Day!

Today is a public holiday and we get the day off work. It has been a much needed break for me as I have been working 4 weeks full time now. It is amazing how difficult it is to get back into the working routine. I have been getting busier at the office and have been doing quite a bit of field work, including asbestos monitoring at a 3 million dollar mansion, not too shabby! Over the weekend we went to an Aussie Rules Football game, picture a more confusing and violent version of rugby. Well the West Coast Eagles (Perth's team) got absolutely smashed by Port Adelaide but it was fun nonetheless. We watched the gold medal hockey game this morning at 4am at one of George's coworkers houses. I was outnumbered 3 to 1 by Canadians so as you can imagine the end of the game was not the most pleasant experience for me. I have finally gotten around to putting pictures on my computer so I have included some from my parents trip over, our SCUBA adventure in Queensland and our trip to Shark Bay.


Great Barrier Reef















Look closely. One of the many sharks we went scuba diving with on the reef








Getting the car ridiculously stuck at Shark Bay














New Year's Eve at Fibber McGee's















George feeding a wild dolphin at Monkey Mia














The top of the Bicentennial Tree














Stringray at Hamelin Bay














Stromatolites oldest living creatures on earth at Shark Bay