Ok so I know a very few of you care about the physics and stuff that I am doing. But this will contain no physics terms or anything like that, but I got to do another experiment the other day and I got to do it on the new camera which was just installed and they only started using it like 3 days ago. It is the coolest f-ing thing in the world, unlike the other machines where the cameras are mounted on a circle and rotate these cameras are suspended by arms from tracks on the ceiling and they can like move all over and the little computer screens show cool pictures and stuff. It's awesome.

So I went out for a yum chow lunch (which apparently is what they call dim sum here but I have never had dim sum), and Katherine and Alex have been telling me that in Boston they have crappy chinese food and that the chinese food here is way better. I have to say it was pretty good, but I felt really bad because I over slept and woke up when they were knocking on the door to pick me up and so my body was not fully ready for chinese food, but it was still good and I enjoyed it. So after that I wasn't quite sure what to do with my day but then I remembered that I was relatively close to Centennial Park and people had said it was really nice so I headed over there. The walk over was pretty cool though because I went through a couple of really interesting neighborhoods where I experienced some amazing smells of greek food, indian food, and middle eastern food. So I walked around the park (which is right next to Fox Studios by the way) and it was a pretty cool park. They had some pretty cool trees. I have been amazed by the trees here the whole time and so I finally took a picture of one. There are trees like that all over in the parks around here and its pretty cool. The things that hang off I think are like roots, at least thats what they look like, and they inter-tangle around a kind of mush in the middle that seems to always be wet and has moss-type stuff on it. I assume that in this dry country it is how the tree maintains a water supply. There was also a pretty good view of the city from there, but the picture didn't come out great because it was a cloudy day and the camera isn't perfect. It was an interesting day though, nice to get out.

So Dale has this friend Peter, who is a cool dude, and he owns a farm that is about 2 hours south west of Sydney in the Blue Mountains. So he invited me to come out there with him and Laura and the kids for the day. and it was pretty amazing in a lot of ways. Well so I started off the day with a couple minutes waiting for them to pick me up from the Lilyfield train station, and it was a kinda cloudy and drizzly day (fifth day in a row, craziness) and so I walked up to where I was meeting them and looked towards the city and the way the light was made it look really freaking cool and the picture, although it's different than the way it looked, also came out really freaking cool. So then I turned around and took a look and there was the beginning of a rainbow, and while I stood there and waited it slowly grew in size until it was an entire semi circle in the sky. And if you look in the picture you can just barely see that a little ways outside of the rainbow there was another very faint rainbow. It was a good way to start off the day. So we drove out to this farm house and it was a nice drive, but it was kinda funny because it was a slow progression from highway in the city and then 2 hours later a really bumpy crazy one lane dirt road in the middle of no where. But the vegetation was amazing looking, it was like my trip to Katoomba in terms of the trees and views and stuff. But unlike Katoomba I finally got to see some aussie wild-life in the wild. As we were driving down to the farm house from the front gate a group of like 5 or 6 kangaroos was hoping along next to the car keeping pace with us. It was like a scene out of one of those cheesy movies or something where you see someone riding a train and out the window there is a herd of gazelles or something running along with them. It was pretty amazing, but unfortunately I didn't get a picture cause it didn't last long and I was sitting between a 2 year old and a 3 year old in the back of a car. So we got there and met the guy and then we the adults went down to the edge of their property to see the views over the cliffs. It was a fun ride down some super steep hills in a land rover and then we walked along this trail with more of the cool eucalyptus trees with thier peeling bark and redish wood (I know the picture came out with funny colors) to cliffs that dropped about 1500-2000 feet into a river (according to the guy). There was still a little fog hanging in the valley, although there was a lot more in the morning but by the time we got to that spot most of it was gone. It was really cool too because we were looking right off a sheer cliff seeing all these great views. It was good we didn't have the kids with us because one of them would have jumped, and thats a long fall. It was amazing and it was a beautiful day for it. So we drove back up and by the way I also saw some of those giant ant holes you see on the discovery channel where its like a clay looking mount that is over 5 feet high, they were pretty cool too. So then we went and looked at some of the views from near the farm house into kangaroo valley and they were pretty amazing too because we were up higher on the mountain. We also saw another kangaroo up pretty close, but it was too far for a good picture with the little camera that has no zoom or focus, but we also saw wombats, and one of them that we saw right up along a fence by the house let us get pretty close to it. It was pretty amazing, there were wombat holes everywhere on their property and they are pretty big holes, I guess there have been quite a few dogs and stuff the have died in wombat holes. I also got to hear the laugh of some kookaburra which was pretty cool. It was a good trip, I got to see some of the wildlife that I probably would have not seen otherwise.

So I got some of Laura's pictures from the farm, 160 or so of them in fact, but there was one with Dale and the kids trying to creep up to a kangaroo and with a little playing around with colors on my computer you can almost see the kangaroo, his or her head is just sticking up over the edge of the hill on the left, if you really mess with the colors in photoshop you can see it better, but the rest of hte picture looks kind of weird and I thought it was a kind of cute picture. So enjoy. Oh and PS the name of the farm was Wariwul which means milky way and was the name of the aboriginal tribe that most likely lived on that land, kind of interesting.