Kids say the darndest things (T)

"Eddie can't drive a bus. Eddie only two"

"Daddy, you do so much work"

Solids (T)

Sebi's first solids!

Also a shot with (Great) Aunty Lucy in Ashfield mall.

Ashfield (T)

We are staying in Ashfield, in Sydney's "inner west". The main street is dominated by Chinese restaurants, and according to the local paper, representatives of the Chinese community recently approached the council about installing a China-town style Arch. The goal is to attract 'international tourists', which does seem a little optimistic. Anyway, others have taken umbrage, and if the Arch goes ahead, the Greeks have apparently threatened to respond with a model of the Parthenon, which all sounds pretty interesting, even for the international tourists.

Here's Anita with Sebi out the back. Sebi will be 6 months tomorrow.

Haiku (T)

Eddie has been talking more and more, both poetically - he refered to the fountain outside our window in kyoto as the 'little rain', and prosaically - he chatted to the man next to him on the plane to sydney, referring to him as 'man', as in, "where's the car gone, man?" when he had yet again hidden his little car in the seat.

Shinkansen (T)

You can imagine how much Eddie loved the trains in Japan, particularly our trip on the bullet train, which has a top speed of 285 kph, which means that when two of them pass each other the combined speed is faster than an aeroplane.

Bigger in Japan (T)

Eddie with blonde hair was big in Japan, Anita with her birthday, grew bigger in Japan. We raced around Kyoto and Tokyo, a highlight for the boys the super fast Shinkansen (bullet train).




See the Zeppelin in the top left corner, a background birthday suprise in the Tokyo Botanical Gardens.





I've resisted doing too many of the 'funny translation' photos as the joke wears pretty thin pretty quick, but this one is nice.