SPB Day Trip V

I headed up to the Blue Mountains with Raymond and Ayako. At first we visited the Valley Heights Locomotive Depot Heritage Museum. We had lunch in Springwood and then headed to the Glenbrook part of the Blue Mountains National Park. In the afternoon we headed down to Kirribilly to watch the QE2 and Queen Victoria before finishing the day eating Taiwanese food in Kingswood.

"Shippy ship ship" by yewenyi [?]

"Shippy ship ship" by yewenyi [?]

"Blue Mountains National Park" by yewenyi [?]

"Blue Mountains National Park" by yewenyi [?]

"Locomotives" by yewenyi [?]

"Steam Tram" by yewenyi [?]

"model train set" by yewenyi [?]

One Day Event

But it goes over 2 days. I went down to the Sydney International Equestrian Center to take some photos of the horses. I spent a few hours with Gail, one of the flickr people and also a horse rider.

"Show Jumping" by yewenyi [?]

"Feb ODE- SIEC" by 'hold on' [?]

new plants

I have never much liked the plants on the south planter. So I chose to replace them. I had picked out two plants to use with Keat the previous weekend, but the nursery had sold the second plant type, so I used ones that are all the same. They have grown to two or three times the orginal size in just three weeks. Though they were small to begin with.

"the plant" by yewenyi [?]

"the before" by yewenyi [?]

"the after" by yewenyi [?]

dinner at the bank

Well we ended up eating at the bank. The guys were playing with their flashes. Raymond brought his sound triggered flash.

"SPB Style flash photography...." by yewenyi

"Catch his flash" by SydneyWalker [?]




"one beer, two beers, three beers" by yewenyi

Chinese New Year Banquet @ Makan @ Alice's

Well another good meal at Makan @ Alice's. This time it was a new year banquet. Two meals stood out, the Yee Sang and the Basket Of Prosperity and the jelly desert was good.

1. Yee Sang
   
2. Butter Soft Shell Crab
3. Basket Of Prosperity
4. Teowchew Loh Ark
5. Nien Nien Yau Yee ( Whole Fish)
6. Salt & Pepper Prawn
7. Braised Pork Leg
8. Lu Yee Mein (Noodles)
9. Rice and Chinese Tea
10. Dessert & Coffee

"Chinese New Year Dinner" by yewenyi [?]

"Chinese New Year Dinner" by yewenyi [?]

The new plant

Well, the old plant never look healthy after moving house. Late last week it finally succumbed. So on the weekend I headed off with Keat to wander the nurseries. We started out in Penrith, where is a nursery that specializes in natives. Then we went back to the nursery where she works. There they had some of the plants I was looking at in mature form. This was good and after some more discussion with some of her co workers, I decided on a plant to replace the ones in the south planter that came with the house. I also bought a plant to replace the dead one. This is not a native, but being a climber, it will grow over the privacy barrier and hopefully prevent the neighbors cat from getting onto my balcony. It is the Dipladenia Sanderi Rubra.

"the new plant" by yewenyi [?]