Optical illusion

Helicopter taking off. Look at the propellers. And how is this possible? (4.6 Mb)

Natural camouflage

Sonja and the bubbles

Taken last month.

Arnold's second birthday party

Heathcote Reserve, 3 Jan 2008. Jim the Entertainer was invited as well, and everyone had a lot of fun!

Wasabi and Mount Fuji

I swung past Tokyo on the way back from Seoul last week, and a few interesting things happened. I walked with baggge from Hotel New Otani to Imperial Hotel, and that took 1.5 hours. But since you don't want to see what I look like drenched in sweat, let's move on...

Here I am holding a wasabi root. They grow in only the purest of water, the top, and small roots are cut of, and eventually you end up with something like this. In a proper Sushi restaurant the raw Wasabi is used, and it is grated on sharkskin. It has never tasted so good.

Mount Fuji in daylight and sunset, from Hotel New Otani.

My debut album

Didn't know I had one, did you? Here is how it works:

1 - Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random.The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 - Go to Random quotations: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3.The last four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album. If you want to do this again, hit refresh to generate new quotes, because clicking the quotes link again will just give you the same quotes over and over again.
3 - Go to Flickr’s ‘explore the last seven days’:http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/.Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover. Put it all together, that’s your debut album.

Via

Everyone enjoys holding Sonja

A high res pic for grand parents to download and print (2Mb):


First up, the de Klerk family: Glou, Pieter, Glou's mom, and Marno.










The Berends











The Hanrettys

Scrapbooking features Katja

Been meaning to post about this for some time now, but kept on forgetting, or without a scanner, etc.

Short story is that Cathy photographed Katja, gave the picture to Maxine to use (with our permission), and Maxine scrapbooked and sent it in to be published. When we showed Katja the magazine, she could not stop looking at the page with her picture on. She was featured in a magazine! Very proud. And so she should be.

Enjoy.

Ballet, Tap, Jazz and Acro - the concert

26 November 2007 - a day I will remember for a long time. My daughter has had previous concerts, previous stage performances. But this one was special. The whole mood was special. She did very well.

Here is a picture of the Junior tap group.

Support Footprintz Dance Academy. They did a great job ths year. Again.

September fun

Katja and Evelyn. Katja waiting for her friend Jayden to arrive.

Arnold. We needed some pro photos of the kids. Simple purple background, to complement Arnold's complexion, and it was a lot cheaper than paying someone. I love my S5 IS.