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Sorry… another delayed post from Fagans park. This park was really cool because it had a bunch of different gardens from around the world. There was a North American garden – with a colonial style house with a white picket fence with some big trees. There was a lovely Japanese garden with the Cherry Blossom trees and a bridge over a lake (totally something you would see in an oriental movie!). Then there was a dutch garden, african, mediterranean, south american, and a chinese one I think. Probably more, but I just can’t remember. Andre’a and I took a picnic there and hung out one afternoon. Good times…. Lots of cool pictures at this beautiful park.

By: Colin Feldhaus

I meant to blog this along time ago… these pictures have been sitting in my “need to blog” folder for quite some time. This was Lila (5) and Cyrus Baird’s (3) birthday party. They are friends of the North’s and I got to photograph the event.

Here is the birthday girl!!!

Getting ready for the egg and spoon race…

I think Cyrus has got this game figured out!

And a couple shots of the Birthday Boy!!!

Big Brother Jamon

A little Tug-O-War… GO Andre’a!!!… oh wait, you’re on the boy’s side!

And then the 3-legged races….

Finally, after a long day of playing, it was time for the cake!!!

By: Colin Feldhaus

Day 4b was the part of the trip where we took a helicopter ride. For me (colin) it was amazing… for andre’a not so much…. I got to ride copilot and andre’a was unknowingly forced to ride in the middle in the back. Just for future note, if you ever go for a helicopter ride at Ayers rock, know that if one person in the party goes co-pilot the other is automatically sent to the middle crappy seat in the back. Sorry, Andre’a… So, I guess I am forever indebted to her getting the good seat for the rest of our lives… but it was worth it!!!

This is the Olgas.

More of the big rock called Uluru, or Ayers Rock.

I love the long shadow in this pic.

This was a way cool pic of Ayers with some clouds around it. This was taken the next day – before we flew out of uluru.

It was a fantastic trip and if you ever are in Australia, you should find a way to get there!
By Colin Feldhaus and Andre’a

Day 4 was our adventure and touring day. We got up at 5am again (Elaine are you proud!?!?!), but this time it was to ride a camel. That was a big check off of Andre’as lifelong goals. We took this camel tour around ayers… well not actually around the rock, because it is on a national park, but we got a tour from a distance overlooking the huge thing. Here are some pictures we got.

another b-e-a-utiful sunrise at uluru.

Andre’a and I on our camel. His name was Tanamai. If you will notice the other camel behind us… well, he was in my lap the whole trip. We got really close. His name was Trevor.

Side note from Andre’a to all you fans of the TV show “LOST”
We are currently watching season 2 and we came across something very interesting. The older couple Bernard and Rose (the black and white couple) went to see “Issac at Uluru.” Yes! They went to Ayers rock to supposedly heal Rose from her disease! Crazy! Just a random fact for y’all.

by Colin Feldhaus

This weeks photo assignment is titled “The Bigger Picture”. This is open to any form of interpretation you want. Assignment will be due on August 16th.

The goal this week was to take a picture of household item and to make it cool. Ok, that last part was my add-on. I am working on a separate blog for these photo assignments, so everyone can share their pictures on one page… instead of hopping around to all these different pages, and more people can join in on the fun if they want to. But more on that soon enough.

well here is my pic.

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by colin feldhaus

Day 3 at Ayers or Uluru was fantastic. We went to the Olgas. The Olgas are the group of smaller rock formations that are about 50k from uluru itself. They are pretty cool. The tallest Olga is taller than ayers rock by 200m, but they are not nearly as impressive as Uluru. We started out the day with an amazing sunrise from right near the Olgas. (Yes we woke up at 5am again!!) It overlooked the Olgas and Ayers Rock. Then we took a hike in and around the Olgas. The trail we followed was called “Valley of the Winds” and now I know why it is named that. Well here are some pics we got.

Sunrise near the Olgas while looking at Ayers Rock. I actually learned alot about landscape photography whilst shooting these

The Olgas.

Andre’a and I (colin) as we partake on our journey through the rocks.

This is a funny sign because it points to where the trail goes…

More sunset pictures from our hostel.

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Colin Feldhaus
Andre’a Feldhaus

Day 2, was our day for, actually going to and climbing, the largest monolith in ‘zed world. We got up before the sun (5:15am to be exact) to watch it hit the rock. Wow, that was cool. There were actually a few moments there where we could see the shadow of the horizon on the rock… that was strange. I have never seen anything like that before. It was really cool. Here is a picture of it…. and once again it only lasted a moment.
Here is the shadow on the rock.

and here is with the full sun hitting it.

This is a little picture of me standing next to ayers rock. As you can see, I am small in this picture… and you still cannot see the top of ayers rock. The rock is actually taller than the Eiffel tower.

So, we decided to climb the rock. and luckily for us it was open on the day we were there. Apparently they close down the climb to the top for any reason: such as high winds, storms, lightening, heat, an aboriginal says so, etc. It is only open about 100 days a year so we were very lucky to climb it. This was actually the only day it was open the whole time we were there! God was good to us!!
I love this little pic of andre’a making here accent to the summit.

A couple of pictures from the top.

Here is the Ayers rock climbing team: Colin, Andrea, Luke, and Keith. We met these guys while climbing the rock and we all got to the top together. It was quite an accomplishment.

By: Colin Feldhaus

So day 1, mate. We fly from Sydney strait to Ayers rock (uluru) air port. I think a 3.5hr flight that would take 30+hrs in a car. And as it turns out less expensive than the cost of petrol for a car trip. So for the limited time and funds we opted for air. When the plain flew into the airport we got to see the rock from the air. That was a fantastic first view of the rock.

When we landed we took the shuttle bus to our hostel. We checked in, wondered around the resort for a little while and then watched the sunset on top of a big sand dune in the middle of the resort area. That is where we took these pictures. Here is my go at a little landscape photography.

Look, its a big rock!!!

aaawwww…

The rock changes colors so much as the sun sets and rises.

I really love this picture… backlight tree, cant get much better than that.

by Colin Feldhaus

Colin says “Last week was a crazy week. That is the understatement of the decade. We get back from Ayers and I see there is an upgrade for my blog so i proceed to upgrade. well, bad idea. Apparently my host is not fully compatible with this update so needless to say, I killed it… all of it. nothing was working for 3 days. After many online chats with my host and a couple of restores from backups it was finally up and ready to role. And yes, I have known that my comments have not been working, but now, some how, they are miraculously working. And you can see my blog posts from before the first page. I hear those are good things to have on a blog.

So I am expecting lots of comments now.

Next, John and I are frantically trying to finish up our videos before we leave. The vids have come out really well and I hope that he will be happy with them. We have put alot of work into these, so I hope everything works out.

Also, we are helping the Norths paint and fix up their house for them to put on the market. So home-life is a bit nuts. One evening John and I stayed up till 4am in the morning installing some flooring. That seems pretty late, but it was totally worth it to have the floor installed and to set up his new 46in flat screen tv in that room. That was a very good feeling. So pretty much John and I work on videos all day and then work on the house all night. I am sure Tommie can relate to that because she just went through that process.

Oh yeah, did i mention that we are trying to get ready to move to New Zealand next week.

Good luck I say to you… I mean myself.”

Colin Feldhaus