Photo #10

The always lovely Jodie over at Mummy Mayhem tagged me for this one.

I have to post a photo from my computer library and talk about it. The best bit is I don’t have to sit here agonising over which one as the decision has already been made! It has to be the tenth photo in my library.

Here are the (official) instructions:

1. Open the first/oldest photo folder in your computer library

2. Scroll to the 10th photo

3. Post the photo and the story behind it

4. Tag 5 or more people to continue the thread

So here’s my pic. It’s in Hobart and the year was 2007. Hubby had given me a digital camera for Christmas that year but for some reason I didn’t use it on Christmas Day! Anyway, there’s me, Clo and Jen at about 6am on the morning of the 30th December. We’d been up all night, literally sitting on the dock since about 2am waiting for our other halves to come sailing in, in the Sydney-Hobart yacht race!

Me, Clo, Jen

Us girls flew down on the 27th and had a few days of shopping, eating and drinking before greeting the boys and then jumping back on a plane to Sydney that afternoon! It was a great trip, and the atmosphere is great fun in Hobart. I remember the first pub we went to after the boys arrived and my shoes kept sticking to the floor from all the rum! Good times!

So now it’s my turn to pass it on, so without doubling up here’s my picks…

Ellen at The Spice Rack

Belinda at An Account of Social Commentary

Bern at So Now What?

Happy Easter!

Have a safe and happy easter everyone!

I’d say don’t eat too much chocolate but that wouldn’t be any fun now would it!

Catch you all next week. xx

99 things…

Agent 99

I borrowed this from Megan over at Writing Out Loud! And now have the song “99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer….”

Anyway enough about beer, here’s how this 99 things thing works:

Just copy and paste these 99 things onto your blog and bold the things you HAVE done… here are mine:

1. Started your own blog

2. Slept under the stars

3. Played in a band

4. Visited Hawaii

5. Watched a meteor shower

6. Given more than you can afford to charity

7. Been to DisneyWorld

8. Climbed a mountain

9. Held a praying mantis

10. Sang a solo

11. Bungee jumped

12. Visited Paris (will be there again in about 3 weeks! Yippeeee!)

13. Watched a lightning storm

14. Taught yourself an art from scratch

15. Adopted a child (No but adopted a fur-child, (puppy) if that counts!)

16. Had food poisoning

17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty

18. Grown your own vegetables

19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France

20. Slept on an overnight train

21. Had a pillow fight

22. Hitch hiked

23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill?(and put on the fake sick voice…)

24. Built a snow fort

25. Held a lamb

26. Gone skinny dipping

27. Run a Marathon

28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice (No, but hopefully will in a few weeks!!)

29. Seen a total eclipse

30. Watched a sunrise or sunset

31. Hit a home run

32. Been on a cruise

33. Seen Niagara Falls in person

34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors (England)

35. Seen an Amish community

36. Taught yourself a new language

37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied

38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person

39. Gone rock climbing

40. Seen Michelangelo’s David

41. Sung karaoke

42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt

43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant

44. Visited Africa

45. Walked on a beach by moonlight

46. Been transported in an ambulance

47. Had your portrait painted

48. Gone deep sea fishing

50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris

51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling

52. Kissed in the rain

53. Played in the mud

54. Gone to a drive-in theatre

55. Been in a movie

56. Visited the Great Wall of China

57. Started a business

58. Taken a martial arts class

59. Visited Russia

60. Served at a soup kitchen

61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies

62. Gone whale watching

63. Got flowers for no reason

64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma

65. Gone sky diving

66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp

67. Bounced a cheque

68. Flown in a helicopter

69. Saved a favorite childhood toy

70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial

71. Eaten caviar

72. Pieced a quilt

73. Stood in Times Square

74. Toured the Everglades

75. Been fired from a job

76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London

77. Broken a bone

78. Been a passenger on a motorcycle

79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person

80. Published a book

81. Visited the Vatican

82. Bought a brand new car

83. Walked in Jerusalem

84. Had your picture in the newspaper

85. Kissed a stranger at midnight on New Year’s Eve

86. Visited the White House

87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating

88. Had chickenpox

89. Saved someone’s life

90. Sat on a jury

91. Met someone famous

92. Joined a book club

93. Got a tattoo

94. Had a baby (Not yet come back in October!)

95. Seen the Alamo in person

96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake

97. Been involved in a law suit

98. Owned a cell phone

99. Been stung by a bee