In the following week, Jen and I saw the Dave Matthews Band at The Greek Theatre up in LA. Surprisingly, this was my first concert at The Greek, which as it turns out is a fantastic place to watch a concert - the too and from the concert is a hassle though, parking and traffic etc. is horrible. After the concert, we decided to be adults and find a bar and have an after-concert drink. Which shouldn't be that hard when you think the road up to The Greek basically dumps you out into the Hollywood area. As it turns out, Hollywood is mostly an endless stream of grimy streets, prostitutes and crack dealers at that time on a Wednesday night. So we ended up buying a six-pack and taking it home to drink. Party animals!
On the 10th was my niece Alison's official 1st birthday.
On the 15th we had to rush up to the Australian Consulate to get Callum's Australian passport finally sorted out, because we booked tickets for a trip to Australia in October. I took this photo on the lawns outside the consulate. The composition of small little Callum and the giant lawn and building is cool (in my humble opinion!). Click on the photo to see it in full size.
We discovered that on the 3rd Sunday of the month there are free train rides at the OC Model Engineers park. And with Callum's current infatuation with Thomas the Tank Engine, it is was a no brainer to go and check it out. I took Callum by myself this first time and taking photos while actually riding on one of these trains was verboten, so I didn't actually manage to get a photo with either Callum or myself in it, but this photo should give you an idea. On each ride you do two loops of the park and it takes a good 10 minutes or so to get around as the park is quite large. Callum of course was physically bouncing and wiggling the entire time with sheer delight, I thought his head was going to pop right off.
Here is a gratuitous shot of Callum.
And one more for good measure, this time peeking in from the backyard.
The last week of September was basically consumed by getting ready to leave for Australia - you would think we would be well practiced at this by now, but apparently not. We took off on the night of the 30th and landed in Brisbane in the morning of the 2nd of October (because of the time difference, oh and the incredible length of the flight of course). This photo of Shari (my sister) and my niece Alison was literally taken while Jen, Callum and I were on the flight on the way to visit them.
The October update will be mostly consumed by the details of our trip, so stay tuned!
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