Brent turns forty three

For Brent's birthday we had a great night away at the Shangri-La Hotel in the Rocks, Sydney. I decided to go the cool black and white look for these pics.

The Horizon Bar (at the Shangri La) where many cocktails have been consumed in it's time

Brent looking pensive

Self portrait

Views over Sydney Harbour from where we had afternoon tea

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Officially True Blue...well maybe with tinges of Black and Silver

Here we are at our citizenship ceremony at the Ryde Civic Centre...so we really did it!

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Africa

I hear the drums echoing tonight
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
She's coming in twelve-thirty flight
Her moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation
I stopped an old man along the way
Hoping to find some old forgotten words or ancient melodies
He turned to me as if to say: "Hurry boy, it's waiting there for you"

[Chorus:]
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had

The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what's right
Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing that I've become

[Repeat chorus]

[Instrumental break]

Hurry boy, she's waiting there for you

[Repeat chorus]

Toto - Africa (Live in Amsterdam)

Here's my favourite song live in concert at Amsterdam

...TOTO in concert!

We went to see my favourite band in March - which is obviously TOTO!

I've been waiting all my life to see them live...it was amazing...really amazing...but my camera ran out of batteries - man oh man, how seriously annoying!

But just to prove I was there, here is some (very rough) pre-concert footage before the batteries died...

Here's a link to some vids of them live

http://www.toto99.com/multimedia/videos.shtml

Han in Oz, and Family and Friends in NZ!

Sort Of Dunno Nothin' - Peter Denahy

I liked this one

Ceremony time

Yes, it's time to actually go ahead with the ceremony. We'll be Australian on the 17th April! Now I'll have to practice my 'Strayne'...

Lola - I mean Yoda (Lego Star Wars style)

Ben liked this...so I thought I's share with you