Shane On The Go: December 2009

Thursday, 31 December 2009

The Hungry Duck 5 and blog post number 1000

This post has turned out to be my last post for the year and coincidentally my 1000th post here at Shane On The Go. Whacko.

And so our New Years Eve 2009 dinner in lovely rural Berry at The Hungry Duck concludes with a Kaffir & Tahitian lime tart. Berry's NYE fireworks spectacular went off during dessert so the waiting staff opened the doors to give us a view.

The hungry duck 4

The Hungry Duck 3

The Hungry Duck 2

New Years Eve at the Hungry Duck

Wednesday, 30 December 2009

Going somewhere?

I'm glad you asked. We booked some plane tickets to somewhere yesterday but for the life of me I can't remember where. ;-)

Yep, my current work contract finishes tomorrow too so we can finally put the shocker that was 2009 to bed and hopefully have a better start to 2010 with a pre-holiday break before heading off to the Land of the Rising Sun in Feb. Can I learn Japanese in 6 weeks?

Last one here for the day... time to go home

Saturday, 26 December 2009

Monty Python: Oh Lord! You Are So Big!

Christmas dinner on Boxing day

Traditional Christmas dinner at the Nixons. Actually Boxing Day because no-one could get home in time for christmas. No matter, dinner was still tops and had the added bonus of our Swedish guests/family, Pirko and Jan. Note: the scraping of plates and general feeding frenzy soundtrack was edited out and replaced with another soundtrack in my phone.

Tree time

Dinner and presents.

Just a little bit of cream, custard and brandy sauce on the Christmas sago plum pudding I said.

We got your Paulaner t-shirts Benno. Ta mate.

Jan, Jasmine & Pirko.

Cat cracker.

Bacon soap. Best present ever!

Holiday traffic. Shit!

3 km in 35 minutes at this point. In the end the traffic was banked up for 6 km and took a little over an hour to travel those 6 kay. Usually it takes about 6 minutes.