Week 43 - December 3

haunted house




Hey,

Hope everyone had a great week. Mine was fabulous once again. I went to a "wings event" this past week with somecolleagues. A small committee was formed several months ago to sample some of the best "chicken wings" in Denver. Our 3rd stop for the year was at Hooters. Now despite the very unappealing scenery, the food was fantastic, extremely spicy, but quite flavoursome. Needless to say, I was sweating profusively by the end of the feast.

With the year winding down, I attended my first work Christmas party. It was a fun evening, that took place at a haunted house! The highlight of the evening was the "white elephant" gift exchange. Several exchanges/tactics/fist fights later (only joking), I walked away with a cute little soft toy dog, which I will gladly give to my niece.

Week 42 - November 26

replica of the Titanic


Dinosaur


Chris McCormack

bike that Chris rode to win the Kona Ironman

Greetings from the mile high city,

Wow I can't believe we have approached the final month of the year and I've been in Denver for 10 glorius months! It's been an incredible journey so far. Fortunately for me, I will get to spend Christmas downunder once again, so I'm counting down the days until I arrive back to the Summer heat.

During the week, I went and saw a horrific movie No Country for Old Men with some colleagues from work. Definitely not my choice, otherwise it probably would have been Enchanted or a comedy. I was so tensed throughout the movie, it was simply quite painful to watch. Most of my colleagues loved it. Well all I can say is that there's enough violence in our society today, we don't need more movies depicting this.

On a much lighter note, I met a fellow aussie over the weekend - Hawaiian Ironman champ Chris McCormack. He came across as extremely friendly and relaxed and it was just incredible to listen to him speak about his win/training ethics/nutritional intake etc etc.

I capped the week by going to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. It was awesome! There was so much to see and learn, it was fantastic. I spent 4 hours at the museum and I didn't even get to see everything. The highlight of the day was watching a movie inside the Planetarium. This was truly an amazing experience, 360 degree view of the planets!