Four Dogs, a Housewarming, and Some Excellent Pecan Pie

1 - Saturday featured an epic journey many kilometers north of Wellington for a housewarming soiree...


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23 - considerable growing up (caused by eating, I suspect) has gone on since this not particularly famous photo a couple of years ago

Wellington Santa Parade 2007

1 - Wellington's Santa Parade featured last Sunday - Chiara (far right) had been roped into being a pirate for the occasion, so there was no way I could possibly miss that...


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4 - the Falon Gong were on best behaviour for the event, having only just managed to gain approval to enter


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6 - with the dragons, pirates, calamari, vikings, and dancing types all round, it was pretty easy to forget the Christmas side of things...


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10 - ...but this dog clearly had the right idea.


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16 - Ah, at last... the real meaning of Christmas


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Feesh in the Sydney Aquarium

1 - Sydney Aquarium was well worth a visit. Photography was a little on the difficult side (low light and reflections) and extreme measures for avoiding screaming kids were often required.


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3 - Yet more Seals, swimming about the place smelling of fish...


4 - ...and having domestic disputes...


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Sydney's Taronga Zoo

1 - Taronga Zoo was high on my list of places to visit - unfortunately I messed up my timing a bit, and only managed to get around half of the animals before it was time to hurry back to the dock and catch the ferry back to the city.


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4 - Kodiak Bear


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13 - Snow Leopard wondering how on earth he managed to get quite so far away from the whole snow concept...


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