29. June 2015 13:07
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25. June 2015 12:07
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The pool at the hotel was great.
The kids loved it and it was nice jumping in the pool after an excursion out and about.




It really boosted the kids confidence swimming there.


If it had been up to Kim's family then they would have stayed at the pool the entire trip and not have left the hotel.
24. June 2015 11:07
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There was also a monkey show with a larger trained monkey.
Apparently in the past they used trained monkeys to fetch coconuts for them and they demonstrated how they trained them.


Kim's dad had his photo taken with the monkey.
23. June 2015 11:07
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They also had a snake show at the elephant place.
Some of the snakes were very poisonous such as this monocled cobra.


And the huge king cobra (which kept coming over the safety barrier).

Chong and I volunteered to hold the python.



I wonder how often the snake guy has been bitten by his snakes.
22. June 2015 11:07
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21. June 2015 11:07
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20. June 2015 08:07
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19. June 2015 08:26
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This year we traveled to Phuket in Thailand along with Kim's sisters family and her dad.

We had to fly via Bangkok, so we were a bit worried how the kids would handle the long flight (especially Lucas), but everyone handled it reasonably well.
The boys were very excited to be going on a big aeroplane.



Once we arrived to Bangkok it was pretty obvious to see that they were very excited.



The only thing that never made it all the way to the hotel was our stroller. We lost it somewhere between Phuket airport and the hotel...but wasn't a big loss and hopefully someone puts it to goo local use.
20. May 2015 12:05
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It is time to renew Aiden passport and like last time there were a lot of outtakes that we could not use, but which were quite funny.
20. May 2015 11:05
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Here is some more photos of my grandma and grandpa on my mothers side.
Here she is with her sisters (my grandma on the far right)

Here is some of her when she was young.


Here is one that I assume was taken in 1969 based on the date of the photo.

I think this one if my grandpa when he was young.

And here is some more.


And here is some family gathering photos.

I think it is her brother on the left. And my cousin Mette on the right.

And this is with my grandparents on my fathers side (left to right bedstefar, mormor, morfar, bedstemor, mum and Claus).
For the next couple of weeks my Dad and his partner are renting a campervan to cruise down the coastline from Cairns back to Sydney (hopefully they enjoy the cool weather compared to the 41 degrees we had here in Sydney yesterday).
Before they left I managed to do a photo session with him and the kids to get some portraits.



I may try and do another one once they return on a darker background.
1. January 2013 09:53
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New Years day we organised a more of let spontaneous BBQ (well..it was organised day before) at one of our local parks with family and a couple of friends.
I think my dad was still a bit hung over from the day before, but we still managed to get him to do some of the BBQ'ing. They went to the city night before to see the big midnight fireworks while Aiden and myself went to Coogee to see the 9pm fireworks there with family (Kim stayed at home with Lucas).

...while Kims Dad was looking after Lucas.
30. December 2012 01:30
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One afternoon we made the trip to Centennial park to go duck feedking with Aiden, but also to show our visitors one of the great parks of Sydney.


Aiden was very excited playing with my dad and running up and down the hills and checking out the big trees.


(photos courtesy of my dad)
27. December 2012 10:13
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So far my Dad and Aiden are bonding very well.
The first thing AIden asks for when he wakes up in the morning is 'Play Bedstefar' (play grandad) and wants to go and knock on his door to play with him.
My dad has been very patient with letting him jump while holding his hands, so now he wants to do it all the time.
He especially enjoys the two handed jump...
...so now he also wants it when we are walking him.
The jumping has come in handy as I have used it to trick Aiden to get in the water at Maroubra a few times.
My dad also reads him his story before he goes to bed at night...we will se over the next month whether we also can get him to change nappies, brush his teeth, feed him, dress him etc.