Places – Page 81

Brisbane, Southbank

Fun at Southbank Parklands

by NeilEnnis 8 June 2009 No Comments Shortlink

We had a wonderful day at Southbank Parklands yesterday.

After checking out the “Machines of Da Vinci” exhibition, we headed down to Chez Laila to enjoy some fantastic Lebanese food, and thick, muddy Lebanese coffee. I thought I might have seen a young Ozzy Osborne there.

Then we hopped on the huge Ferris Wheel, the “Wheel of Brisbane” as the sun was going down. The view was spectacular, and we all agreed that Brissie is a much prettier city than we give her credit for.

Afterwards we went to the free comedy concert at the Piazza and watched The Kransky Sisters, Tripod plus a host of other comedians debating whether or not Queenslanders have more cause than other Australians to be happy. (Of course we do!)

Incidentally, the Kranskys are hilarious. Check out their website if you haven’t heard of them. Tripod are so funny you forget how talented they are as musicians.

All in all, a fantastic day! I hope we have many more days like this.

Children, Kids, Lawnton

Kids on a Trampoline

by NeilEnnis 17 May 2009 No Comments Shortlink

Kids on a Trampoline

Our kids and their friends having fun on the trampoline at our place while the adults were upstairs.

Children, Kids, Lawnton

Fun with genetics

by NeilEnnis 17 May 2009 No Comments Shortlink

Party sparklers on steroids. Lawnton on a Saturday night 🙂 – 12seconds.tv

“What’s a sparkler bomb got to do with genetics”, you ask.

Towards the end, after the “sparkles” there’s a whispery high pitched laugh, a bit like “Mutley” on 70’s cartoon “Whacky Races”. That’s me. But what’s wierd is it’s how my Dad laughs too, especially at something “Naughty”. I’m sure if he had popped over here last night, we both would have been laughing like this!

I love Dad, so it’s always fun to discover something else I have in common with him.

Oh, and by the way, well done on the fireworks boys! The neighbors probably think we’re forcing down the price of real estate in the area, but you demonstratred a good grasp of physics and chemistry to pull off such a spectacular display.

Part time models – Youtube

And Jonno, my son, I’m really proud of your most recent bass guitar performance on this video. Nice to know we share some music genes, although yours seem to have mutated from Jazz into Heavy Metal.

I should mention that your bass guitar broke shortly before this performance, so you were playing on a totally unfamiliar instrument.

Well done mate.

Genetics can be nightmarish at times, but I think these two videos demonstrate that it can be fun too!

Memories, Queensland

Birdsville 1993

by NeilEnnis 12 April 2009 No Comments Shortlink

I visited Birdsville in August 1993 for the Birdsville Races.

I got arrested by an amazonian policewoman, drank lots of beer that cost an arm and a leg per can, sat on a toilet that got flushed by boiling bore water, slept in a tent city and had a fantastic time.

If you ever want to do something unusual when you visit Queensland in mid “winter” (I use the term loosely), then check out the Birdsville Races. It’s something you just have to do 🙂

Places

This is cool!

by NeilEnnis 17 March 2009 No Comments Shortlink

I’ve installed a program called Orb which lets me access any of my media (videos, photos, songs) from any computer over the net – even using my mobile phone.

It also lets me share that media (such as family videos) with friends and family.

One cool side-effect is that it lets you share the webcam on your computer.

So I thought I’d give it a go.

Let me know what you think.

If it chews up too much bandwidth, I’ll turn it off. But for now lets see how we go!