11. November 2022 17:12
by Rene Pallesen
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While visiting my dad we made a daytrip to Burg in Germany. It is a short ferry ride.
10. November 2022 17:12
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The boys joined a naming ceremony of my dads boat. It is named 'AILU' after AIden and LUcas.
9. November 2022 17:12
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We went past the Cemetry to where my Brother and Mum (Aiden and Lucas' Uncle and Grandmother) is burried.
While
there we also say all the other ancestors on my Mum's side of the family
back to Aiden and Lucas' Great-Great-Great-Great Grandmother and
Grandfather.
8. November 2022 17:12
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It is not often gets an award from school, so he is super proud when he gets a little encouragement.
16. September 2020 16:05
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At Boracay I did another shoot with some beautiful models. It was a fun shoot on the beautiful beach and at the hotel pool.
26. July 2020 10:07
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Early in the year we made an extended weekend trip to the Gold Coast in Queensland. Main attraction here was for the boys to visit Movieworld and Seaworld.
19. July 2020 13:07
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These photo are from a workshop I did with Kateriina as a model.
It was mainly studio with fixed (hot) lights instead of strobes which I am more used to.
Advantage of the fixed lights in a workshop setting is that it is easier to see what the light is like before taking the photo as well as having multiple photographers shooting at the same time.
21. June 2020 17:03
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Aidens birthday was during the covid lock down.
Fortunately we were still allowed to have a couple of his school friends over for a little celebration (his school was still open anyhow).
We decided to have it in the garden with a fire pit with roasted marshmellows, sparklers followed by cake.
5. March 2020 20:03
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Recently I had the chance to visit the shooting range at Malabar headland with a group of friends.
I used to do a lot of shooting in my younger days, so I was curious to see if I still had it in me.
On this day we were shooting on the 800 meter range (which is a very long distance) with 7.62 NATO rounds.
The distance means that you cannot see where you hit, so they have an electronic readout next to the shooter. The two circles in the middle are about 25cm in diameter at the far end.
Below is the group of shots from my round.
This photo gives a better idea of the distance we were shooting at (It was also a very windy day)
Apparently I shot the best round of the day including the regulars...
Conclusion is that, yes, still got it and I may pick it up as a regular activity some time in the future.
20. October 2019 19:10
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With Kim having a few weeks gap between jobs and badly needing a break she wanted to go somewhere relaxing and where the water and weather would be warm.
After a bit of research we settled on a week to the Phillipines to an island called Boracay.
This is a small island with the most beautiful beach we have seen anywhere outside of Bora Bora (interesting that both have the name 'Bora').
The boys (and adults) managed to get a mighty sunburn already on the first day.
The island also has the most amazing sunsets at the beach.
Also lots of activity on the beach in the evenings whereas during the day is is mostly empty.
We stayed in a large resort built around a golf course. It had seven swimming pools and we spend a lot of time here relaxing with the boys and sipping cocktails.
It was really nice in the evenings to sit in a bar listening to cruisy music. Most of the restaurants and bars would have live entertainers on in the evenings.
One day we went on a snorkeling trip around the island. The boys are well accustomed to snorkeling now and love it. Unfortunately I didn't bring an underwater housing on the trip, but I can say that the coral reef looks to be in a good shape although a lot of the larger schools of fish and large predatory fish seems to be scarce.
We also did a day trip to the main island where we went through one of the local caves.
The cave was full of little bats and also had other creatures that were attracted to the bats and insects such as a snake and spiders I've never seen before.
We even spotted a large hermit crab (size of a hand).
One day in Denmark we went to Tivoli to see the christmas show.
Lucas got a ride pass so that he could jump on whatever ride he wanted, and Aiden was happy cheering.
We also saw the 'real' santa (Julemanden) and went past the Lego store.
7. November 2022 17:12
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While in Denmark it was snowing for a couple of days. The boys love playing with it.
7. November 2022 17:12
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On the first day after arriving we went past the little mermaid from HC Andersens story and also past the residence of the queen, Prince Frederik and Princess Mary.
7. November 2022 17:12
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This year it was my dad's 80th Birthday. I took the boys back to Denmark to celebrate with him. Aiden has been once before when he was 1yo, and it was Lucas' first time.
This lady used to be my dads babysitter when he was just born (she is 92yo)
30. October 2022 16:12
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Both Aiden and Lucas were playing soccer again this winter.
Especially Lucas is starting to get pretty good when he gets 'hungry' to take the ball.
30. July 2022 17:12
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This year we took the boys skiing for the first time. They had been practicing their roller blades at home to get used to the motion, so it was a bit easier to get them started on the snow. It was the first time for the boys to see real snow.
We went with another family and stayed at Thredbo.
It also happened to be on my fiftieth.
13. July 2022 15:07
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In mid July the instructors of the Sydney dojo planned to visit the Brisbane dojo. They encouraged me to come along as I will be up for the next big grading soon and it would be a great introduction to some of the best instructors and karateka's in the country.
I also found the official lineage of our style listed on one of the boards.
