tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36418586955223356532024-03-13T21:07:25.822+00:00Flat SusanNeethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13279125547309537517noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3641858695522335653.post-62388032700703263072016-11-15T22:58:00.000+00:002016-02-05T18:37:04.744+00:00Where is She Now <i>This post will stay at the top of this blog and hopefully will be updated so you can keep an eye on Flat Susan's Adventures.</i><br />
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<b>Where is she now? </b> Flat Susan is back home in the UK and is now with the talented crafter, Hazel, in Kent before going on with her journey around the UK. Sorry for the big gaps but she lost all of her belongings luckily most of these have now been replaced and has experienced one or two minor hiccups of late.<br />
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Flat Susan is so excited about collecting nice signatures in her passport to remind her of her time over there too. I think she really is brave doing all this travelling on her own.<br />
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<b>It would be nice for you to leave some comments on people's blogs when they post then they are more likely to leave you some when you have Flat Susan to stay.</b><br />
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<i>Thanks to my dear friend Paul who has helped me (Truthfully? - Sorted me out! Done the Layout!) with this blog. Without him it would be a complete mess. I am indebted to him forever (and so is Flat Susan). He will remain on admin for the duration.</i><br />
<i><br /></i>A while ago now I had a lovely surprise when a great big box arrived at my door all the way from Australia. <a href="http://scraphappenshere.blogspot.co.uk/">Annette</a> has made me the most fantastic journal, if that is what you can call it, you will ever see. It has little drawers, tags and a hundred things in it. Pop along to <a href="http://hickydorums.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/woyww-258-thanks-annette.html">Hickydorums</a> to see it. I have started journalling on the tags and things, all about Flat Susan's journey up to date. What a treasure this is going to be. Thanks Annette!Neethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13279125547309537517noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3641858695522335653.post-28908722389146377002016-02-05T18:33:00.000+00:002016-02-05T18:33:14.428+00:00Life Down on the Farm - in Wales<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
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Huge apologies for the delay in getting this post written. Flat Susan (more about her below) has been residing with me in Pembrokeshire for a while now. My health and busy schedule meant that I have not been able to take her out and about as planned, and I nearly just sent her onto the next person, but I realised this is a chance to show some general pictures of our beautiful county and also F.S in our old farmhouse.<br /><br />She started her world tour back in June 2013! She travels in her own suitcase (she is so small, this is the most comfortable method of travel for her).<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><br />We live in an old farmhouse (<a href="http://lowertancredston.blogspot.co.uk/" style="color: #6500a4; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">blog about the renovation</a>) right in the middle of Pembrokeshire (SW Wales, UK). Hopefully this map will show our location.<br /><br /><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/sJXKQmHQo4H2" style="color: #6500a4; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Lower Tancredston</a><br /><br />FS has been very comfortable resting in my craft room (on my cosy dachshund cushion).<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Here are a few views of the farmhouse and farm (yes, the sun does shine in Wales!).<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>(This last photo is taken from my craft room window - so you can see that FS has been able to watch all the comings and goings.)</i><br /><i><br /></i>Lower Tancredston is a 400 acre dairy farm. The oldest part of the farmhouse dates back to the 17th century - and it was then 'extended' in the Georgian period. I am currently researching the history of the farm and Tancredston as a whole - and will be blogging about it when I have more information to share.<br /><br />Pembrokeshire - where do I start? It is the furthest southwest corner of Wales. We are blessed with a mild climate (frost and snow are relatively rare), but the Atlantic storms do hit us hard in the winter. The north and south of the county vary a great deal. We have the Preseli Hills up in the north and the more rugged Atlantic coast on the west, whilst down in the south there are more estuaries and the famous resort of Tenby.<br /><br />Here are a few views -<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />If you have never been down here before, then I would definitely recommend a trip soon. Even a short weekend away would be fabulous - and I can give you ideas on places to stay/visit/eat out/shop.<br /><br />We have 2 woollen mills close to us, where you can see the weaving machines in action. We also have a lot of craft shops/artists/events/workshops in the county.<br /><br />FS is off to Hazel in Kent next. I will miss her company.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">Sadly Flat Susan has to be on her way and I know she will enjoy her next port of call - <a href="http://exmoorali.blogspot.co.uk/" style="text-decoration: none;">Ali.</a></span></div>
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Hi everyone and welcome. I've been hosting a well travelled little friend recently and it's my turn to share that time with you. For those of you who aren't familiar with <b><a href="http://flatsusan.blogspot.co.uk/" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Flat Susan</a> </b>she is the brainchild of the lovely<b> </b>Neet <b>(<a href="http://hickydorums.blogspot.co.uk/" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Hickydorums</a>)</b> and has been travelling the World (in her very own suitcase!)</div>
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And there was another fortuitous event for Susan to attend. I got the chance to meet up with fellow creatives Anne Redfern (<b><a href="http://bollyanne.blogspot.co.uk/" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Redanne</a></b>) and Tracy Evans (<b><a href="http://craftaddicts-tracyevans.blogspot.co.uk/" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Craft Addicts</a></b>) for a wonderful pub lunch. Bless her, Susan found it almost impossible to get a word in sideways! It's so very rare I get the opportunity to leave the confines of the craft room and this was a real treat.</div>
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So while I got to grips with the stamping side Susan worked that Scoochy like a pro. I'm telling you that girl has an amazing eye for detail.</div>
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Neethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13279125547309537517noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3641858695522335653.post-23263042630419886912015-07-11T01:04:00.000+01:002015-07-11T17:50:16.044+01:00Sad NewsIt is with a heavy heart that I post today to tell you that I heard from a blogging friend in Australia that Eliza (<a href="http://queenartoypia.blogspot.co.uk/">Queenartoypia</a>) passed on last Tuesday night. Those of you who have followed Flat Susan's adventures will know that Eliza and her daughter Myrene (along with that adorable little fella, Yoda) played hostess to Flat Susan and did seven, yes, SEVEN, posts about her adventures with the family. You can start reading about her time with the Harms family <a href="http://latsusan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/whoo-hoo-i-am-staying-with-yoda.html">here</a>.<br />
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Eliza was so fond of Flat Susan that she would talk of her as if she was a real person and she really did show concern for the 'little doll' if someone was late in posting about an adventure. I know Myrene Eliza's daughter, loved having Flat Susan visit too.<br />
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So, Flat Susan and I would like to send our condolences to Eliza's family, to her children, Michael and Myrene and not forgetting Yoda and the other fur babies and not forgetting either her bessie, Di who must be devastated. She will be missed, not only by the huge number of friends and work colleagues, TV, sports people etc etc but also by lots of friends she had made in Blogland.<br />
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I would like to share a paragraph that I often used to read from one of Eliza's emails that shows just what a huge heart that woman had:<br />
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<span class="s1"><i>The first of December is a family tradition that I started and have threatened massive sissy fits and violence if people don't turn up. My children's friends come and their partners, work employees etc. There is eggnog of the alcoholic type and plenty of food, fun and laughter. As long as the tree gets put up and decorated before we eat then I am happy, we party for the rest of the night. Some of the guys that work for me end up staying until the late hours (0430am) of the morning, but that is normal for us, everyone else carks it. Everyone that is a family member has their own baubles or Christmas decorations that they must hang themselves. I even have decorations that the children made at pre school. My deceased mothers decorations also get put on the tree by me every year in her honour.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The pancake race has been going since the 1400s and is the oldest in the world - only ladies who live in Olney are allowed to take part. There are some wicker ladies carrying pancakes in one of the gardens in the market place where the race starts and Susan wanted to have her photo taken here.</span></div>
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<o:p> </o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The house is quite quirky – two sets of stairs, a shower in the laundry room and two bathrooms half way up the stairs. Half the time Flat Susan ended up going in to the crockery cupboard instead of going up the stairs as there are two doors next to each other and it was very easy to get confused. She enjoyed the garden with all the lovely spring flowers and one day I found her hiding beneath some pretty primulas.</span></div>
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Neethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13279125547309537517noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3641858695522335653.post-50256192626842152242015-02-09T12:42:00.000+00:002015-02-09T12:49:48.345+00:00Waiting for a New SuitcaseFlat Susan is resting at home after her hectic trips back and forth across the world and she has never stopped talking about how much she has enjoyed meeting people, how kind they have been to take her here and there, and how much she has seen.<br />
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She needs a new suitcase now before she carries on with her journey through the UK but I have been admiring the lovely postcards she has collected along the way. I thought I would take this opportunity to show you some so you could enjoy them too<br />
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The top one is from Sandy in Australia, bottom left from Kay in New Mexico and the one on the right is from Kimmie in North Carolina.</div>
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The top two are again from Kay in New Mexico, the next one down shows the San Francisco skyline and is from Darnell and the last one is Flinders Street Railway Station which was built in 1854 and is the oldest City station in Australia.</div>
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I also got some photographs and here is one of Susie but you will need to check back on her write up to see why she had Flat Susan meet these two handsome guys.</div>
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and here are two photos from Kimmie, I don't think you need any introduction to who the famous person on the left is or who the Star(r) on the right is. If you do you had better check on Kimmie's write up.</div>
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I have some lovely tags to show you but they will have to wait for another post - and I need to sift through my stuff that did not travel with Flat Susan as I am sure there is a postcard or two there.</div>
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See you soon and hopefully will be sending Flat Susan off again.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Flat Susan has accompanied me to most places that I go, including church (she likes the singing best), and to my sewing group. She has watched us knitting, sewing, crocheting, and just chatting, but she was very interested to see my friend Sue making some bobbin lace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the afternoons she sat with me as I finished off the crochet blanket that I was making for my Africa project. When it was done I laid it out for her to see, and she chose to try out the red square.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had to make sure I put it away after that so she couldn´t creep back on it when I wasn´t looking. I wouldn´t want to send her off to Africa by mistake!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She also came with us when we walked the dogs over on the campo. It was lovely to see them running around, but she was very impressed when they ran back to make sure we were still there. I told her that twice we have seen wild tortoise over there, and I think she was a bit disappointed that we couldn´t find one for her to see, but they are very protected and we would not have been allowed to take it away for her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After our lovely sunny days, we all find the evenings very cold and we are so grateful to light our newly mended fire, which makes the sitting room so cosy. But Flat Susan knew instinctively that she mustn´t get too close to the flames, as she might go rather floppy! So she preferred to keep warm by snuggling into Tango´s lovely soft fur.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had one more exciting day out for F.Susan that hadn´t been in our plans. My friend had intended to go to Lubrin bread festival, but her husband had to go to UK for family reasons, so we said we would take her. Lubrin is a little village in the mountains to the north of us, and it was high enough to be quite chilly there, so we all wrapped up well, and F.Susan stayed safely tucked into my pocket. She didn´t want to see out of the car window because it is a very narrow, winding road, and she thought it was a bit scary, but she did pop out in time to see the village as it came into view.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The bread festival marks San Sebastian day, so I took Susan down to the church to see his statue. She loved the red roses and the fresh bread all around the statue, so I let her creep up and sit among them for a while. She looks very tiny hiding in there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back at our table we joined with everyone else in buying a tiny bread circle to pin to our coats, but Susan thought mine was just right for her to sit in. A friend who lives in Lubrin, told us that the children had made these in school during the previous week.</span></div>
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After a mass in the church, the fun began as larger bread rings were thrown from all the verandas and caught by the crowds below. </div>
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The men carried ropes that they threaded their bread onto, and it was a real competition to see who could catch the most. Some caught so many that they needed help to carry them.</div>
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Because so many were needed, some of the bread had been cooked days in advance and was very hard, so we warned F.Susan to take cover, but she was so excited that she couldn´t stay hidden and she was even more happy when Chris caught our first ring.</div>
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She wanted to sit in that one too. Fortunately it was a nice fresh one, and quite soft, so we broke it and all had a little taste.</div>
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It was a very ´exuberant´celebration, and F. Susan wanted to record some of it to share with you, and give you a taste of the atmosphere there, so I took a little video as the procession passed our plaza. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBhXQqY_HJA&feature=youtu.be" style="color: #66cc66; text-decoration: none;">Here is a link</a> to it. I hope it works for you. It looks a bit fierce but really it was a very good-natured event. Everyone is happy on Fiesta days.</div>
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On Friday I took F.Susan with me to Turre market. She loved all the colours and bustle, but it was a very windy day so I made sure she was pinned tightly to my jumper.</div>
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Then, as it was the last time I would be taking her out, we drove down to the beach at Mojacar Playa. The beach itself was almost deserted.</div>
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It can be a bit uncomfortable there on such a wild day, as the wind whips the sand up against your legs, but it was an off-shore wind so it wasn´t too bad, and we stood a while just enjoying the noise and sound of the waves breaking on the sand.</div>
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F.Susan was delighted to find some flowers growing out of the sand. She thought they were just the right size for her and insisted on sitting in them.</div>
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Then she spotted a patch of sea grasses with their furry seed heads, and quickly climbed on to one of these. It was so windy that I had to pick a grass stem to tie her on, to keep her safe, but she had a great ride, swaying in the wind.</div>
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Then we crossed the road at the big roundabout, and stopped to watch the fountain, and admire the red poinsettias still blooming around its base.</div>
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The white building behind the fountain is called Parque Comercial, and it is a complex of clothes shops, cafés, a supermarket and a collection of fancy goods and tourist shops. We went into one of these so that F.Susan could chose a tiny Indalo man to fix on the tag I am making for her to take back to Neet. Indalo man is a little stick man holding what appears to be a rainbow, and he was found in some cave drawings to the north of here. He has become the icon for Andalucia, and appears somewhere in just about every house, as well as on street furniture, and various small items such as jewelry and leather goods, that are a favourite buy for holidaymakers to take home as a souvenir. Here are the railings along the new path that runs all along the road leading up to Mojacar Pueblo, and you can see Indalo man on every second panel.</div>
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So now it is time for Flat Susan to pack her suitcase and head back to the UK. She has been travelling for nearly eighteen months, so I guess she will be quite happy to go home and rest, and share all her adventures with the folk there. We have loved having her here, and I think she also enjoyed her time with us. Safe journey Flat Susan. Thank you for visiting us.</div>
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Neethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13279125547309537517noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3641858695522335653.post-10477614238178577432015-02-07T12:59:00.000+00:002015-02-07T12:59:46.983+00:00Espana Por Favour<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The idea was for Flat Susan to come to share Christmas with us in Spain, but unfortunately her flight from Australia was delayed, and she did not arrive until Boxing Day. That´s plain old 26th December for us, as Boxing Day is not celebrated in Spain, so it is just a normal day, which why the mail man was working as usual. Poor Susan had done a lot of waiting around over the past few days so she was glad to meet her new hosts and just relax for a day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But she wan´t able to relax for long as the very next day we took her across the green zone at the back of our house, to watch a simulated traffic accident. It was a training/information exercise, and we were impressed by the way all the local services worked together to sort out the traffic, give first aid, and get the patients (all volunteers from the village), loaded into ambulances. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Flat Susan was quite upset by it all at first, but once she realised it was only ´pretend´she began to enjoy it, but she stayed tucked inside my jacket for most of the time, all the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her first real celebration was New Year´s Eve. By then she was getting used to having the dogs around and they no longer felt the need to sniff her to decide whether she was friend or foe. Foxy was more interested in pinching her snacks than in eating her!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With just a couple of days to catch up on some sleep, we then took her out to lunch with a group of friends from our village art club. They all wanted an introduction and she got on well with everyone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Spanish friend Cati was most interested. She thought I had made her, and asked whether I could make one for her, so I tried to explain that Flat Susan is quite unique, and soon she would be travelling back to her home in UK. Cati was very disappointed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The meal started with entremeses, a plate of meat and cheese. Flat Susan nibbled at the cheese, but found the meat a bit too chewy. She decided to just watch while we ate the main course, but she got quite excited when the rice pudding came along!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On January 5th, the night when the Three Kings arrive for Epiphany, we drove over to Almeria city, to meet up with some friends. We had never been to the procession there so it was new to us as well as to F.Susan, and we all enjoyed it immensely. Flat Susan couldn´t believe her eyes when the procession started with two real elephants walking down the street. There was a huge crowd of people, and it was very noisy, so she was a bit afraid of getting separated from us, and decided to stay very close, but I pinned her to my coat so she could see everything. The Kings arrived on very ornate floats and she loved all their bright lights and music.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But we all loved the last bit when the big, inflated caterpillars (?) floated along with ever changing coloured lights inside them. It was the perfect end to an exciting evening. Then we had to drive home to get some rest before the Three Kings Fiesta in the village the next day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So January 7th dawned clear and sunny. Once again we were blessed with a beautiful day for our fiesta. We went across to the plaza in time to watch the pageant. First the soldiers arrived at King Herod´s Palace, and it is fun to see our friends dressed up and obviously enjoying the parts they played.</span></div>
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Then it was time for the Kings to arrive, and F.Susan thought they looked very fine!</div>
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When the play had been acted out, we took Susan around the stalls, stopping to chat to friends as we went. </div>
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I asked Flat Susan if she was feeling brave, and when she nodded I took her over to the tent where there were several birds of prey and some reptiles. i warned her to sit still while I held a very big, and heavy long-eared owl. He was very beautiful, and she stayed so still, I don´t think he even noticed her.</div>
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She behaved so well that I took a bit more of a risk and asked to hold the boa constrictor. They said he was too strong for me which was a shame, but they did let me hold this one, which is also a type of boa. Susan was a bit more wary of this, but she stayed very still, and afterwards, when she how close he was to her in the photo, she felt quite proud of what she had done!</div>
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Food plays an important role in all our fiestas, but particularly this one, and she was amazed at the variety available. I always think this barbecue looks amazing, with its racks of ribs, slices of lomo, choritzo, black pudding, sausages and chicken. And it smells amazing too.</div>
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Other people prefer the big pan of paella, but I am not so keen on it if it has lots of shell fish or snails in it! Here the rice has just been added, so it will be a little while before it is ready to eat.</div>
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Then there is the meal provided by the Town Hall for anyone who wants it, and this year it was a giant tortilla - layers of potato and onion with beaten eggs, and cooked over a log fire. It is hard enough to cook evenly in a little pan made for the purpose, so I am filled with admiration for these men who use a pan the size of my dining table!</div>
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After lunch we took Flat Susan home for a rest, but then, as it was twelfth night, it was the traditional time to take down the Christmas decorations and pack them all away. F.Susan asked if she could have one more cuddle with my little angel bear before I put him away, and she also had a last chat with Santa.</div>
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Well that is the end of Susan´s Christmas Adventure. Tomorrow I will write part 2, and you can see what else she has done during her stay with us.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--On3-3yRXEI/VEZ3o_cHl3I/AAAAAAAAGyw/UGLUeYEdByw/s1600/IMG_0069%5B1%5D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #4d469c; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--On3-3yRXEI/VEZ3o_cHl3I/AAAAAAAAGyw/UGLUeYEdByw/s1600/IMG_0069%5B1%5D.JPG" height="239" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />After the Grand Final Footy Show we moved around the corner of the city and went to the Promenade where the Today Show was being broadcast, just for a small show like this it takes days to set up and then the early morning start, even the stars are on set at 3 am for a 5 am start</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Flat Susan got to see everything unfold first hand the streets were picturesque with art and lights that adorned the streets. The pretty city alight with the beauty of the night time.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Here you can see all the lights that are constantly sparkling through out the city streets.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Now comes the Grand Final Football parade where thousands of people flock to the streets of the city and see their favourite football players in the parade. This event is huge and I am on the streets as early as 2.30 am to get things rolling along for the broadcast. To be honest with you I love this job, you get to see the city when it is in skeleton mode and all the people are sleeping. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">There is never a better chance to stand in the middle of the busiest intersection in Australia and take photos because there are no cars or people. We have the city to ourselves the streets are being blocked off for the parade and it is a beautiful place. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Then the crowd starts to arrive by the thousands and the once quite streets turn into jam packed fans trying to get a glimpse of their favourite football stars. Here is the same church but from a slightly different angle but pretty close, packed in tight with people</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Before the crowds arrived we went on a private tour of the city and Federation Square which is on another corner of the same intersection. People gather here to see all sorts of entertainment and watch big matches on the screens and enjoy the city when they can't get tickets to the game or event. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">This is called the Birdcage and it is constantly changing colours and you can walk through it to get to the ACMI Centre and other parts of the square. There is so much happening in the place all at the same time it would take you hours and hours to really enjoy it all. Flat Susan got to see some of the animals in the ACMI Centre and was fascinated at their size.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I am now moving onto a rather normal event but one that I have been looking forward to and it was a craft fair called picture2page not that far from where I live and seriously Flat Susan and I wanted to get some retail therapy in and see some of the artistic talent that exists here in Melbourne.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Well did she have a fun time, everyone wanted to know about her and why she was travelling the world, some didn't comprehend how people wanted to host Flat Susan but she impressed them all.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I had to be out of town again for another broadcast and drove many hours north west of Melbourne to a place called Bendigo where there was a Netball match happening, well this was no ordinary match it was the world championship netball game Australia V England and I took Flat Susan with me for company on the drive and seriously you never know what will turn up with my type of work and turn up they did the English team was there and Flat Susan got to meet them </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IVLG-4Q7bSw/VEaX_e4sZrI/AAAAAAAAG1M/DszaayOv33k/s1600/P1010008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #4d469c; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IVLG-4Q7bSw/VEaX_e4sZrI/AAAAAAAAG1M/DszaayOv33k/s1600/P1010008.JPG" height="239" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;">I am adding another little bit on to this post, it is of Myrene with Flat Susan at an event she went to, and a person she got to meet up with. This man is called Peter Hitchener and he reads the news to most of Australia every day. This is so profound for her, but she wanted to do it. Flat Susan is pinned onto Myrenes jacket. No I was not there with her. Afterwards she got a photograph autographed from Peter addressed to Flat Susan, this will be posted off to Neet as soon as I can.<br /><br />Whilst they were out and about Myrene took Flat Susan to the Royal Melbourne Show to see the fireworks and other events, they got to see farm animals and the dairy hall all extreemly interesting to see. Flat Susan had a fantastic time she got to go on rides and get some show bags.</span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3cXVFMx5fqU/VEaYGH_lKAI/AAAAAAAAG1U/jo03JZL3KT0/s1600/P1010032.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #4d469c; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3cXVFMx5fqU/VEaYGH_lKAI/AAAAAAAAG1U/jo03JZL3KT0/s1600/P1010032.JPG" height="239" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;">Mum says Thank You Myrene.</span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LPQJ9vTqLUo/VEaYIrw2qoI/AAAAAAAAG1c/3gckQb0w4jk/s1600/P1010034.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #4d469c; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LPQJ9vTqLUo/VEaYIrw2qoI/AAAAAAAAG1c/3gckQb0w4jk/s1600/P1010034.JPG" height="149" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="200" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Now trying to wrap this event up, this is one really traveled little girl whilst she has been in my care, I know I have had her for quite some time and it is all with Neet's permission, as she knew I had many grand things planned for her stay and all so worth the time and such a blessing to have her here. She has got to see a world that some people can only dream about, to meet some really famous people too. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I hope you have all enjoyed her journey here in Melbourne and the life of broadcasting and being on the road with work. There is never a dull moment and I crave quiet time, sometimes and want to get home to cuddle Yoda and get some normality back and be just me. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I hope you support her next hostess who is a lovely lady who is another <a href="http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com.au/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;">WOYWW</a> desker <a href="http://lonelycards.blogspot.com.au/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;">Sandy</a>, from <a href="http://lonelycards.blogspot.com.au/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;">Lonely Cards</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br /><br />For all the Yoda fans, here he is sleeping next to me in his bed until I get in mine. Such a beautiful little man with a gentle heart waiting patiently for me to upload this post.<br /><br /><br />Hugs to all<br />Eliza</span></div>
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As you can see it is really dark and the building is covered with lights, soon the set will be in full construction mode, the lighting scaffolds will be built and the staging guys will move in and the set will be put together. There is so much behind the scene stuff that happens it is incredible and hard to fathom, but fun regardless and never a dull moment. 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Sorry information edited here.</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">The show was a huge success and went off without a hitch so Flat Susan was onto the next production. </span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Here we are now outside Crown Casino in the dark setting up for the red carpet for the Brownlow with all the camera and broadcasting equipment on the street having to get it all organized before taking it inside for the actual filming of the show, and this is before the sun comes up in Melbourne, here is some of the crew fumbling their way around in the dark with limited lighting to get everything set up. These productions take up huge amounts of time and they start days before the event actually going to air on the TV. Cameras have to be assembled, cables lay'ed and links all set up. There is never a dull moment and it is all action but Flat Susan managed to stay in check with it all and we are only part the way through the month but getting closer to the Grand Finale the actual Grand Final itself. Sorry I can't show you the actual Red Carpet Brownlow event this year sanctions have been placed for copyright reasons. 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<span style="background-color: white;">There is more shows to come and some really good shots of Melbourne but that will have to wait until the next update as this has dragged on a bit sorry. I do hope you like what you are seeing of Flat Susan's adventures whilst she is here, so stay tuned for more.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> The entrance has this magnificent Statue at the front to welcome all. Flat Susan was awed by the size of the statue as you can see the size comparison...</span></span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-flQ9Iq1n9iI/VDeV5jeHB_I/AAAAAAAAGr0/4581n4ZXSBY/s1600/IMG_3875.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #4d469c; float: right; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-flQ9Iq1n9iI/VDeV5jeHB_I/AAAAAAAAGr0/4581n4ZXSBY/s1600/IMG_3875.JPG" height="150" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="200" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /></span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J2_5Xb02LKU/VDeWCHReYkI/AAAAAAAAGsE/wwUmqAjC5bU/s1600/IMG_3877.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #4d469c; float: right; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J2_5Xb02LKU/VDeWCHReYkI/AAAAAAAAGsE/wwUmqAjC5bU/s1600/IMG_3877.JPG" height="320" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="240" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">After visiting the Conservatory we went for a drive to the local churches, which happen to be the oldest in Melbourne, they stand in all their glory surrounded by city buildings and parks. The architecture in these buildings were incredible.</span></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dMLPV5ItPyY/VDeWM7ZStII/AAAAAAAAGsU/jlf2X7sg46k/s1600/IMG_3880.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #4d469c; float: right; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dMLPV5ItPyY/VDeWM7ZStII/AAAAAAAAGsU/jlf2X7sg46k/s1600/IMG_3880.JPG" height="320" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="240" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OAdItUpxKYs/VDeWHW4ZXjI/AAAAAAAAGsM/498J7XeRHDI/s1600/IMG_3878.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #4d469c; display: inline !important; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OAdItUpxKYs/VDeWHW4ZXjI/AAAAAAAAGsM/498J7XeRHDI/s1600/IMG_3878.JPG" height="320" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="240" /></a><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> Here you can see Flat Susan having a rest after reading the information about this Lutheran Church.</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Then we went for a drive down Flinders Street past the infamous Flinders Street Station that has hundreds of thousands of people using it every day for transportation to and from their train stations.</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MmTRjeH3LPs/VDeWrL1SBYI/AAAAAAAAGsc/Y-0BkWWxdME/s1600/IMG_3885.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #4d469c; display: inline !important; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MmTRjeH3LPs/VDeWrL1SBYI/AAAAAAAAGsc/Y-0BkWWxdME/s1600/IMG_3885.JPG" height="240" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">We then continued on to the docklands area of Melbourne right by the water and checked out the boats and buildings. Before getting to the waters edge we saw these buildings that had green living walls, yep plants growing on the walls throughout the city, it truly was spectacular to see and as you can tell they are quite tall there are people on the footpath walking to give you a gauge of the size.</span></span><br />
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Flat Susan didn't want to go on it, as it was a bit scary and like going into outer space for her. She did like the fact that she could see the calm water and the city edge a buzz all around. Normally people don't get access to this area but Eliza tends to break the rules a little and knows people to get her into places. Here you can see Flat Susan on the lifebuoy. </span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">In the next photo you can see the building in the background that is called Etihad Stadium, it's roof opens and closes when it's needed for sporting events. So if it is raining they close the roof so the spectators and players don't get wet. Eliza works here sometimes, the stadium has walls of green plants too. </span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZyI748wmq_A/VDeXP9ECpyI/AAAAAAAAGtM/fupDh99QFjA/s1600/IMG_3893.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #4d469c; float: right; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZyI748wmq_A/VDeXP9ECpyI/AAAAAAAAGtM/fupDh99QFjA/s1600/IMG_3893.JPG" height="240" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">But some of the best was yet to come a close up look at a very old ship.</span></span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dnCAIr2atPU/VDeXR6Hh7CI/AAAAAAAAGtU/jD21zvZskEM/s1600/IMG_3896.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; 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font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> Here she is docked along the wharf area and we got to have an up close look but Eliza wouldn't let Flat Susan on the ship for fear of her falling in the water.</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fy8KsD_slw0/VDeXU-08vkI/AAAAAAAAGtc/F4n0jU5VRDI/s1600/IMG_3897.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #4d469c; float: left; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fy8KsD_slw0/VDeXU-08vkI/AAAAAAAAGtc/F4n0jU5VRDI/s1600/IMG_3897.JPG" height="320" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="240" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> All Eliza would let Flat Susan do was sit on the railing at the waters edge, by golly it was big. It had lots of ropes and pulley's and all sorts of things we really didn't understand. </span></span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-y_TI8M2ab-Y/VDfL6ttiUBI/AAAAAAAAGuE/1AQMgtQrGco/s1600/IMG_3900.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #4d469c; float: right; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-y_TI8M2ab-Y/VDfL6ttiUBI/AAAAAAAAGuE/1AQMgtQrGco/s1600/IMG_3900.JPG" height="320" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="240" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Here you can see Flat Susan sitting on the timber near the edge of the ship</span></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eKentOFZUic/VDfL4yk0-KI/AAAAAAAAGt8/UvtC41ElKxY/s1600/IMG_3899.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #4d469c; 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I hope you have enjoyed the little tour.</span></span>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Flat Susan as you know went on a picnic BBQ day with Myrene and the Uni Students/Teachers/Aids etc and had a fantastic time with everyone. They were all mystified over her travels around the world and how far she has come. </span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Flat Susan got entertained and became well embraced in the community for deaf she even got to learn some<b> Auslan, sign language for the deaf here in Australia. </b> Flat Susan got to see some really fun times with not an egg and spoon race but a Malteser and spoon race. </span></span><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-80gJ52yWGXE/VClxCXvn-hI/AAAAAAAAGkk/pEfADwT5k34/s1600/download.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #4d469c; float: left; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-80gJ52yWGXE/VClxCXvn-hI/AAAAAAAAGkk/pEfADwT5k34/s1600/download.jpg" height="134" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="200" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Malteser's are little malt chocolate balls that are yummy, see picture for an idea, I am sure they are sold all over the world and not unique to Australia. </span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Well eggs are a bit fragile for some of the disabled so the Malteser's are a little more user friendly. Plus eggs can break and be quite an expensive exercise, so Malteser's it was. </span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Flat Susan got to help another lady in the race Melanie who was well and truly enthralled to have Susan's help. Flat Susan thought about sitting on the spoon but Melanie was worried about her falling off so she got pinned to her top, much safer there.</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /></span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YknrmIusCxg/VCly4bW88JI/AAAAAAAAGlc/8vvX5xVJ5_k/s1600/P1010056.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #4d469c; float: right; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YknrmIusCxg/VCly4bW88JI/AAAAAAAAGlc/8vvX5xVJ5_k/s1600/P1010056.JPG" height="239" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Flat Susan then moved onto the sack race, that was interesting having her little legs bouncing around but she still was in the race with help. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">She got to sit on a donut for a ride while someone tried to eat the donut, she was quickly removed from fear of being eaten and saved from the mouth of hell, wow that was a close one, she has traveled so far to be eaten by someone I don't think so.....</span></span><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-igiTzcnsHDs/VCly0o6ZbzI/AAAAAAAAGlU/UqhZ0lEIuN4/s1600/P1010055.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #4d469c; float: right; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-igiTzcnsHDs/VCly0o6ZbzI/AAAAAAAAGlU/UqhZ0lEIuN4/s1600/P1010055.JPG" height="149" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="200" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">I think a big day out with Myrene and a few lessons in Auslan. A picnic in the park with beautiful weather, sunshine and lots of people in fun colours to celebrate the deaf community, some were wearing butterflies and some had them painted on their faces, this is to honor the butterflies as they are also deaf.</span></span>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br />You can see the truck here when it was set up but to get it to this stage it had to go into a lift.<br /><br />You know the lifts we use at shopping center's and hotels, well did you know there is a truck lift too. Here in the photo on the side is the trailer of this truck actually in the lift. It is backed in on one level and then taken down a few levels and then pulled out again and set up.<br /><br /><br />All of this is under the Arts Centre in Melbourne, not many people have seen this and I got to go for a ride in the truck on the way down and up. It was a bit scary but I managed to control my fear. The best part was when I found out humans aren't allowed to ride the elevator and I was plastic, so I got one up on Eliza, she hasn't been in it.</span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-E5F6l77lf7E/VCF_qa006DI/AAAAAAAAGh4/o-Znx2wqGPk/s1600/IMG_3939%2Bcrop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #4d469c; display: inline !important; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-E5F6l77lf7E/VCF_qa006DI/AAAAAAAAGh4/o-Znx2wqGPk/s1600/IMG_3939%2Bcrop.jpg" height="320" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="258" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;">It's really big and I mean REALLY BIG we could fit a lot of shopping trolleys on this lift.<br /><br />Once down stairs the OB got set up, to look like this, then it was all cameras and action no seriously it takes days to set up the trucks based on what job they are doing, how many cameras and crew and then the cabling, the list goes on. So on with it I will go......<br /><br />Here I am going off with one of the guys Paul to get some work done, these big cameras weight a tonne and you are going to see me with many cameras over the next few weeks even since this gig as they call it, the next night I was at a different venue doing more fun stuff.<br /><br />You will see more on that later as Eliza is so busy dealing with all of this she hardly has any time at all.<br /><br />Yes I am still her little PA you see Melbourne is at it's busiest ATM as it is the finals for the footy being the Australian Rules called AFL (Australian Football League) and there are many performance nights scheduled that require filming and I get to be a part of it. Woo hoo<br /></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">After awhile I went into the OB and helped out with some fine tuning and linking with the team here you see me helping out again.<br /><br />Can you believe all of this stuff is actually inside that truck that I showed you photos of earlier that went down in the lift. Gosh this truck does amazing stuff, they do everything in here that links straight onto your TV in your house.<br /><br />Wow<br /><br />You might recognize some of the footage but please be quiet I snuck in this photo, it's not of the ballet either. LOL just something else we were working on.</span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Oz-I6pLp_K4/VCGAih0A_cI/AAAAAAAAGiQ/fAsGkLvVFsU/s1600/IMG_3906.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #4d469c; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Oz-I6pLp_K4/VCGAih0A_cI/AAAAAAAAGiQ/fAsGkLvVFsU/s1600/IMG_3906.JPG" height="240" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><br /><br /></span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dLG3xDwdG-A/VCG4qs1BAjI/AAAAAAAAGkU/hd1EtjA4XS4/s1600/IMG_3908.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #4d469c; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dLG3xDwdG-A/VCG4qs1BAjI/AAAAAAAAGkU/hd1EtjA4XS4/s1600/IMG_3908.JPG" height="240" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSdznL-K-vc/VCGAfnHtERI/AAAAAAAAGiI/J2LjseKV4UA/s1600/IMG_3904.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #4d469c; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSdznL-K-vc/VCGAfnHtERI/AAAAAAAAGiI/J2LjseKV4UA/s1600/IMG_3904.JPG" height="240" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />As we were wrapping up this gig I went inside to have a little look around and walk the wall of events and got to look at some of the artists posters and pictures, I got to sit on some too as you can see. There is even some of our road crates in the shot of me on the pictures sitting and sticky beaking.</span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q3U-1EHXM3c/VCF-z9iWBpI/AAAAAAAAGhQ/Sy0-KnB4kEc/s1600/IMG_3942.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #4d469c; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q3U-1EHXM3c/VCF-z9iWBpI/AAAAAAAAGhQ/Sy0-KnB4kEc/s1600/IMG_3942.JPG" height="240" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;">I am sitting on the picture on the left that has some orange on it and just under Kylie<br /><br /></span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XkxCRAnvGNs/VCGADU4rxvI/AAAAAAAAGiA/Nvz9uM-qIng/s1600/IMG_3941%2Bcrop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #4d469c; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XkxCRAnvGNs/VCGADU4rxvI/AAAAAAAAGiA/Nvz9uM-qIng/s1600/IMG_3941%2Bcrop.jpg" height="320" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="246" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TrUnTn1NQ1I/VCF-15rN20I/AAAAAAAAGhY/A37QFJkH0O0/s1600/IMG_3943.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #4d469c; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TrUnTn1NQ1I/VCF-15rN20I/AAAAAAAAGhY/A37QFJkH0O0/s1600/IMG_3943.JPG" height="320" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="240" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I really like the picture of the man I am sitting on he has one really nice toned body all muscle, it doesn't leave much for the imagination. So many famous people have performed here. I tried to do a little audition but seriously it didn't do anything for my body, I'm sticking with Eliza more fun.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Sorry this post has been so long, as you can see it is all happening down under here in Australia and I am off to another event so I will catch up with you all later on the next post.<br /></span><br />
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Neethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13279125547309537517noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3641858695522335653.post-77358020556500974142014-09-20T13:20:00.000+01:002014-10-13T18:22:24.621+01:00A Picnic with Myrene<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">Hello everyone this is Flat Susan here I am Eliza's little executive PA so you will be hearing from me for the next few weeks, after all Eliza's desk isn't really active she has been out and about with work commitments and then there is me tagging along and I can tell you it has been a really great time so far, Eliza is never in one place very long and it is a struggle to keep up, now I understand why Yoda misses her so much. So on with my travels, I have been all over the place so get ready to hear some really fun stuff, coz it is lots of fun, fun, fun. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">across from the village which Eliza & Myrene had to pull me away from was this really magical fairy tree. This tree was comprised of a series of carvings onto the trunk stump of an original red gum tree and the stump was over 300 hundred years old. Ola Cohn's Fairy tree attracts many visitors from all over the world and was so beautiful. Here you can see me sitting on the railing that protects the tree from people touching it. This tree has so many native animals and gnomes </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">fairies and other mystical creatures carved into it. Here is a closer up shot of the tree and a little girl who I meet there who was so fascinated with my story and travels. This was only a little part of my day but I will have to tell you more in the next post so<a href="http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com.au/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;"> Julia </a> at the <a href="http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com.au/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;">Stamping Ground</a> where you can see more desks, well I don't want her getting upset with me for having a long post. Yoda he is home whilst I am writing this because we are at a work place getting some culture, more on that later.</span></div>
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She is so cute and so tired from all that travelling, she left the northern parts of Queensland last week. I can post a letter to America and it could get there faster than her mail did. Anyway onto other things and I thank the heavens it wasn't yesterday Susan arrived because we had one hell of a storm that caused flooding and damage all around the place. I am thankful that Susan was safely at the postal office. Here we had a freak storm that filled the guttering with ice and all the grounds were covered in white. Horrible weather to be out and about in and we had a broadcast down on the docklands area that missed the storm altogether. My guttering is overflowing, ice was on the ground everywhere and you could pick it up by the handful. It was really bad that it hit the back door and that is under a veranda that is covered. The front area of the house usually does't have much weather hit it but the entrance was over flowing with ice. </span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" /></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xxmoqHeVWEg/VBAcYsmwTpI/AAAAAAAAGd4/v0sSa983pq8/s1600/IMG_3776.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #4d469c; float: left; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xxmoqHeVWEg/VBAcYsmwTpI/AAAAAAAAGd4/v0sSa983pq8/s1600/IMG_3776.JPG" height="240" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">I do hope you realize when I am writing this I am in Melbourne Australia and we don't have weather like this, it is rare indeed. Also it is Spring here.</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" /></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NPQU3V-olqk/VBAdId06PLI/AAAAAAAAGfI/elk8T8O_pqo/s1600/IMG_3787.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #4d469c; float: left; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NPQU3V-olqk/VBAdId06PLI/AAAAAAAAGfI/elk8T8O_pqo/s1600/IMG_3787.JPG" height="240" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">Here is the ice and rain hitting our back door and the ground part the way through the storm and it was so dark outside too.</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> I went and took photos of the grounds and guttering that was chokers full of ice.</span></span><br />
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Yes we have been having some fun, but lets move onto the important stuff and I know a few of you will be wondering if Yoda is happy to have Susan around or if he would be jealous of her. </span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">Well they had a little chat and talked it out and they both decided that sleep was far more important and Yoda let Susan snuggle up with him and have a nap. </span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">I think he likes Susan to be honest here he is thinking about sleeping then here he is hunkering down and then finally they are both asleep.</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">Wow what a day this is. I am concerned that Yoda might not let Susan go when she needs to hit the town, but that can be sorted later. </span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">Susan has survived the freak storm and is still napping with Yoda.</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">Oh why am I telling you all this, because </span><a href="http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com.au/" style="color: #4d469c; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-decoration: none;">Julia</a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> said so. Julia over at the </span><a href="http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com.au/" style="color: #4d469c; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-decoration: none;">Stamping Ground</a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> hosts the best blog hop of the week where you show your desk to the world and whom ever wants to join in can.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Over a month ago a special little art doll lady arrived here in Julatten, far North Queensland, Australia. Her name is Flat Susan and she has been roaming around the World for over a year. Her adventures started when she left her home at</span><span style="line-height: 1.4;"> </span><a href="http://hickydorum.blogspot.co.uk/" style="color: #cc6666; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Neet's </a><span style="line-height: 1.4;">place in England in her tiny suit case June 21 2013. Susan has been to quiet a few countries and you can read about her venture</span><a href="http://flatsusan.blogspot.co.uk/" style="color: #cc6666; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a></div>
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This is where Julatten is on the Australian map. I live up here with my husband Grant and our 18 year old son Tim. We moved here from the Northern Territory just before Christmas. Julatten is gorgeous and our home is on a hill over looking rain forest covered mountains. You can see and read more about our new house in a past post <a href="http://www.goannafive.blogspot.com.au/2014_02_01_archive.html" style="color: #cc6666; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a>. Julatten is part of the World Heritage listed Wet Tropics here in Oz and is very green with luscious rain forests, pristine water ways/beaches and glorious one of a kind animals, birds and plants. </div>
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The day after Susan arrived we took her on a bush walk just ten minutes from our home. Its called the Bump Track and its 6kms long. It was the old road from the coast up to the Atherton Tablelands where Julatten is located. There's Susan sitting on the signs at the start.</div>
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Along the track there are "Wait A While" palms. They have these long tendrils with rear facing spikes. If you brush up near then the spikes dig into your clothes and you have to "wait a while" to get them out. Susn was small enough to sit on the spikes with no problem.<br />
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About a third of the way along you come across a gorgeous Creek. It's called Robin Creek now.</div>
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At the rear there are some rocky little falls. My hubby Grant took Susan up there for a look. Below she is resting on the rocks to the left of the falls.</div>
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We had a small cyclone come thru earlier in the year and there were several trees down with large fungi growing on them. Susan thought they would make a perfect chair for herself to sit on.<br />
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3/4 of the way along there is a seat so you can rest at the scenic look out. That's the Pacific Ocean out there. The Mowbray River below winds thru sugar cane farms and has a 2-3meter salt water crocodile visible from the highway bridge which is just before the land meets the ocean in the distance.<br />
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Once we got to the bottom we drove over the bridge to show Susan the crocodile.<br />
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The nex few days Susan and I hung out in my art room. I'm making an art book with transfers in them. Susan was really interested in them and in particular this one I did using clear embossing enamels onto a skeleton leaf.<br />
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Every week I do art classes at a local gallery so Susan climbed on my easel to get a good view of a practice painting I was doing while I learn to use acrylic paints. This is a monochromatic study in reds.<br />
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On another day we went up to Mount Lewis which is also near my home. We passed this lovely bubbling creek in the rain forest and saw huge ferns and lots of moss covered logs<br />
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One evening we had this cute little visitor on the grass outside the house...its an echidna. Susan wouldn't go near it!</div>
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On the 3rd of August Susan helped Grant celebrate his birthday. She loved the Lamington Cake<br />
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Over the next few weeks we went sight seeing and saw heaps of waterfalls, a nice island or two and some interesting prehistoric looking birds called Cassowaries....the Dad's raise the chicks!<br />
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Over at Mareeba (35 mins from my house) there are cute rock wallabies that are a little too friendly so Susan stayed in my pocket. From there we went down the Palmerston Highway and stopped at Henrietta Creek</div>
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Another place not far from our place is Mount Carbine. There is a rugged dirt track up the mountain. We stopped at a little look out for Susan.<br />
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The road ends at the McLeod river. Susan had a rest on a log along the side of thr river...can you see her?<br />
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There she is a little closer<br />
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I carried Susan as it was a long four hour walk. This is taken near where the river drops to a gorgeous valley below<br />
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On the way back we went thru the bush so Susan could get up close to some ancient Aboriginal rock art.<br />
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We stopped to look at Millstream falls on the way.<br />
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We had a little wait before the lava tubes tour so we climbed to a little lookout above Unadara. Susan is hanging off the tree at left...<br />
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The lava tubes were amazing and are the longest known in the World according to the guide. There is Grant and my son Tim as they climbed the stairs down into the lava tubes</div>
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This was the view from the top of the tube in...they are very large. The pole you can see was put there 40 years ago for scientists to assess if the tube was straining in any way that may imply an imminent collapse.<br />
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Susan spent her last day helping Annette make a tag for<a href="http://queenartoypia.blogspot.com/" style="color: #cc6666; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> Eliza </a>who also lives in Australia and is the next person hosting Susan<br />
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There is so much more Susan could see here and this was the tip of the ice berg...maybe she will come back. For now though she is on her way to Eliza's tucked away in her little suitcase mid air I suppose. Have fun on your adventure Susan.<br />
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Neethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13279125547309537517noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3641858695522335653.post-1236828975279555572014-08-16T17:45:00.000+01:002015-03-04T08:24:15.450+00:00Phew! Across the Worldto Bisbane, Australia:<br />
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So I arrived in the land Downunder called Australia in a town called <a href="http://www.queenslandholidays.com.au/destinations/brisbane/brisbane_home.cfm?ref=bris" style="color: #6fa8dc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Brisbane</a> in June 2014.</div>
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It is the middle of winter there if you can call 22-31Celcius a winter hee hee </div>
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As soon as FS arrived I put Flat Susan by the phone so she could call home anytime. An hour later I came by and she had some Vitamin C tablets and collapsed right there and then. Travelling around the world sure is a tiring business indeed.</div>
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FS came to hospital with me to keep me company, I think she needed more rest too but she was kind enough to hold my hand, rest on my neck and was happy to read the magazines and sip my tea and have a taste of my sandwich</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The following weekend we went fishing and went to a prawn farm where this lovely tin man was on display. He was made up of drink cans. I think FS fell in love with him and wanted to stay, but I told her she had many more places to visit. I told FS she could have a long distance relationship first to see if her flat self and a tin man were compatible and if it worked out she could come over and live permanently.</span><br />
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This is the campsite we went to and FS had a wonderful time, lazying around, cooking on the fireplace. She helped make spaghetti and cheese jaffles and Indian bread.</div>
Neethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13279125547309537517noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3641858695522335653.post-81979230053164800522014-05-23T11:19:00.002+01:002015-03-04T08:25:19.698+00:00Bye Bye America - Hello Australia<div style="color: #351c75; font-family: Nobile; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white;">Flat Susan is now leaving America and Darnell got her to write all about her adventures back in The Bay area of California.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Today I started a new chapter in my book of travels around the world. I started out from the United Kingdom a year ago to meet friends of my sponsor, Anita (Neet) Hickson of <a href="http://hickydorums.blogspot.com/" style="color: #b76090; text-decoration: none;">Hickydorums</a>. Neet has made me my own website where you can find all the chapters of my book <a href="http://flatsusan.blogspot.co.uk/" style="color: #b76090; text-decoration: none;">here</a>. This time I asked Darnell if I could write about my visit in my own words, which she is allowing me to do.*</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I had a lovely sleep in my suitcase traveling from New Mexico. At first the rustle of packaging and tissue and tape is very faint as it stirs me from my slumber, but as my eyelids flutter and rise, the sound excites my mind to high alert. It can only mean I am about to meet a new friend!<br /><br />My matchbox bed was slowly slid open and this is what I saw:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">"Hello, little Flat Susan," she said, "Happy first Birthday and welcome to my home!"<br /><br />Her name is Darnell and she lives in the Bay Area of Northern California. She looks like she is pleased to see me. She talks quite a lot and laughs a lot, too. I like that.<br /><br />Darnell lives in a Big House and she makes cards in a Little House which she calls the Playhouse. I thought it was super cute! A while back she made a replica of the Playhouse which turned out to be just the right size for me! The bird on top looks a bit scary, being just over my head like, if you know what I mean, but he only chirped happily.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br />Today we had our first outing to meet Darnell's son Daniel, his wife Rachel, and their twin boys Adam and Henry. Everyone took pictures with me.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br />That always happens. I think I am as well photographed as a movie star and the truth is, these friends of Neet's make me feel just like a movie star!<br /><br />The twins thought it would be great fun if I went for a ride in Adam's paper airplane. <i>Whoa boy</i>, I'm not gonna lie, I almost lost my lunch!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">The boys were pretty good sports about having me join them, but as you can see below, they weren't <i>that</i> thrilled about me because I am a "stinky ol' <u>girl</u>!"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Henry said, "Why couldn't it be a boy. Why does it have to be a Flat Sally?"<br /><br />(Sally? He sure takes after his grandmother when it comes to mixing up names and words!) I just smiled because I know it won't be long before they stop thinking that girls are stinky!<br /><br />~~~<br /><br />Today we went for a spin around San Francisco. Darnell held me out the window while she took a picture of me against the skyline. Are you seriously kidding me? If my dress flew off, I'd be a goner! I think tonight I might write a letter to Neet and stick it in my matchbox so she can find it in case I turn up mangled and dead from my visit with these people!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Here we are at the base of the world famous Coit Tower. At least we were on our feet and not flying over a bridge!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br />Driving along the coast, we stopped at an overlook to see this incredible view:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I turned around to get a better look. That's a long way down!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">It took a while, but we made it to the bottom so I could walk on the sand. I know it looks like I'm sitting in the water getting my bottom wet, but that's just conjecture. I'm actually standing on the heels of my shoes, so I don't get my toes wet.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">~~~<br /><br />Today we did a lot of errands, so it was kind of boring, but there were some highlights. For instance, it was exciting to ride in Kevin and Darnell's new truck, which had a compartment just for me.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">AND, it turns out that it had a PHONE, so I could call overseas to Neet! (Don't tell them I did that!)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">After my phone call, I moved over to the door to be in the shade. What happened next was a huge surprise for me and a certain polar bear who had his hibernation interrupted!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">I introduced myself and he told me his name was Jingle. He normally only wakes up for Christmas time and helps Darnell clean the chimney for Santa, which explains why he was so dirty. After that he rides around in the car during December, hanging onto the rear-view mirror. We got better acquainted.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">We practiced some cheerleading routines I used to know as a girl.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">He was a sweet polar bear. I told him he'd better get back to hibernating or he'd be a bear to live with.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I was a bit shattered, too, from all that excitement, so I took a little rest myself.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br />~~~<br /><br />Today we went to one of the boys' Little League games and I was delighted to meet the Granddog, Duke.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">You think Duke looks scared of me, don't you? What a face!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">But, no, that's hunger in those eyes! Darnell still hasn't noticed that I'm missing . . . aah, thank goodness, she did notice!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Just kidding! My leg is there, I was just stretching it out of the way <i>in case, </i>the Dukester was the bitey type. Which I'm glad to say he wasn't.<br /><br />~~~<br /><br />When we got home I lounged around with Froggie and Yabut. Longtime follower's of Darnell's blog know all about Froggie. Yabut is a fairly new member of the family. He was inadvertently named by the twins. Every time Darnell would suggest a name, one of the boys would disagree by starting each sentence (as children are wont to do) with the words, "Yeah, but ... ." Finally, Darnell threw up her hands and said, "Hey, how 'bout we call him Yabut?!" and so they did.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br />Today was spent in the Playhouse with Darnell. To start off, I spent some time quietly contemplating my navel while she caught up on some emails.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Then I was introduced to other critters who are a big part of Darnell's life. Here is a recap, along with Miss Elaine E. Us:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">First and foremost, here is Hammy the hamster. Or rather a fact simile of Hammy. The real Hammy is that part of Darnell's brain which keeps her grounded and focused and sparks her creativity when she goes off track and out of focus. He was adorable!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Here is Fred E. Rick, the frog toothpick holder. (He got a little handsy.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Here is Que the squirrel sent to Darnell by her big sister, Diana. It's rare for me to meet a critter smaller than me, so this was a real treat!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Here I am with Flo and Flatulence. These frogs have been friends of Darnell's for more than 20 years! (She sure likes frogs!)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Here I am perched on u. These F.U.N. word blocks were also a gift from by Diana. I think they are perfect for the Playhouse!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Oh, and please! I had to share this item with you! When I saw it, I laughed my head off. This is a DIET FORK. Darnell received this from Diana, too (she's very generous). The things people think to create! Fortunately, I've always managed to keep my slim figure without needing such a utensil!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Lastly, here I am posed next to Darnell's favorite rules to live by which she keeps on her window sill to remind her every day of the six simple ways to get the most out of life. This wonderful work of art was lovingly made by Darnell's friend <a href="http://bollyanne.blogspot.com/" style="color: #b76090; text-decoration: none;">Annie</a>. Do you love how I am almost camel flogged against the frame?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Today was just the most fun! Darnell's friends got together to say goodbye to one of their group who is moving to the East coast. Her name is Sara and she is originally from the UK, so it was a thrill to meet a fellow countrywoman! It was wonderful to partake in a real English afternoon tea with sandwiches, scones and clotted cream.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Today was my last day at Darnell's. It was important that we try and come up with ideas for the <a href="http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/p/woyww5-atc-swap.html" style="color: #b76090; text-decoration: none;">What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday's ATC Swap</a> which is rapidly approaching on May 28th, the 5th anniversary of WOYWW! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Here I am in the middle of the outstanding ATCs which Darnell received last year. Darnell and I hoped this little exercise would spark some ideas. Not.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Here I am amid some Dee Tritus that Darnell strew about, again hoping it would spark some ideas. Not. Sadly, my time with her has come to an end, but I have every confidence she will create a terrific ATC design without me.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">As the day wound down, Darnell took a picture of me enjoying the backyard while Kevin made us wodka martinis. We enjoyed the cool evening remisinging about my visit.<br /><br />~~~</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">I hope you have enjoyed reading about my time with Darnell. I sure have enjoyed my time with her and I look forward to joining you again from my next stop in Australia!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Hello all. I've had the best time playing "tourist" with my house guest, Flat Susan. She arrived safely and hasn't stopped talking about all her adventures</span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">. She's the perfect house guest, as you can imagine. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Our first stop was at a yard sale that my friend, Alyce was having. She always has neat stuff and I wanted to introduce her to Flat Susan. She's one of my besties in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c;">Another one of my besties and I went to Santa Fe to show Flat Susan a few of the sites. I must admit, by the end of the day we were all tired. Along the way Flat Susan had a little accident as her leg fell off. I'm so glad she came with a First Aid Kit! I'm happy to report that she made it through the operation and has two legs, once again.</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">My friend Lisa with Flat Susan.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">We ate lunch at Tomasita's restaurant. </span></span></span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Tomasita’s is a Santa Fe tradition serving classic Northern New Mexican Cuisine. The restaurant has been locally owned and operated for over 40 years.</span></span></span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></span><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Santa Fe locals have consistently voted Tomasita’s </span></span></span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Best Red Chile, Best Green Chile, Best Margaritas and Best New Mexican Restaurant.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Flat Susan wanted to go swimming in the salsa but I said it might not be a good idea.</span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Like any good tourist, she was ready to sample everything. Here's a taco, green chile relleno, enchilada, beans and rice.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">These are called sopapillas. That's honey butter right behind Flat Susan.<br />She wanted to take one home to use as a bed. Silly girl.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Our lovely waitress. She loved meeting Flat Susan, who is so well traveled.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We then went to St. Francis Cathedral. St. Francis of Assisi</span></span></span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> is the founder of the Franciscan Order. He is the Patron Saint of Santa Fe, New Mexico as well as The Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, Animals and the Environment.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">I took this photo from inside the church. Isn't the stained glass beautiful!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">She loved this one too but refrained from trying it on.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c;">From here we drove to Hobby Lobby. I bought a few more things here too. This is where Flat Susan lost her leg (well, I found it on the floor). I didn't take any photos inside the store.</span></span></div>
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I was very excited when Flat Susan made her way up the East Coast to
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Centreville is about 20 miles due west of Washington
DC. Several battles of the Civil War
were fought nearby. For our first adventure, we visited the
National Park in Manassas, the location of the First Battle of Bull Run where
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small; text-align: start;"><i>“There is Jackson, standing like a Stonewall!” said Brigadeer-General Barnard E. Bee.</i></span></td></tr>
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We did not have time to pop into the Winery at Bull Run, which is just
about 3 miles from my house. There are actually a lot of wineries in
Virginia and FS and I discussed doing a tour of them should she ever
have a chance to come back for another visit!</div>
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We took advantage of an unseasonably warm day and drove into
Washington DC to visit my favorite monument, the Jefferson Memorial. It is located on the tidal basin and in just
a matter of weeks it will be surrounded by Cherry Blossoms in full bloom. </div>
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Here is the statue of Thomas Jefferson on the inside...</div>
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FS insisted that she wanted one of the two of us... </div>
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FS just loved the
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You may see the
scaffolding encasing the lower half…they are just finishing the repairs from
damage caused by an earthquake in 2011.<br />
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A friend had hockey tickets she was unable to use and shared
them with my husband and I. Flat Susan had never been to a real hockey
game...although we watched some of the games on the Olympics
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The tickets
also included a meet and greet with 2 members of the Washington Capitals
professional hockey team. Here you can see FS and I collecting
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I think Susan’s arrival from North Carolina had been delayed
due to one of the big snowstorms we experienced here in the Mid-Atlantic in
February. Her trip from NC took more than a week! The good news was that meant there
was snow in the mountains just over the border in Pennsylvania. FS was a good sport and decided to join
us. In fact she really took over the
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small; text-align: start;">We changed our GPS voice selection so that it spoke with a female voice with a British accent</span><span style="font-size: x-small; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: x-small; text-align: start;">J</span><span style="font-size: x-small; text-align: start;"> which was just silly fun!</span><span style="font-size: x-small; text-align: start;"> </span></i></td></tr>
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I will tell you that FS braved
the double black diamond runs at Whitetail Ski Resort, but drew the line at
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While FS was here we also visited a couple of local
shops. We stopped into <span style="color: purple;"><a href="http://www.ahappystamper.com/" target="_blank"><b><i>Angela’s HappyStamper</i></b></a> </span>in Reston, VA. FS thought I
might like one of these stamps…and I could tell she was really starting to
appreciate my sense of humor!</div>
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We checked out the canvases in the back of the shop –
everybody who works there has one. They
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My artsy and oh-so-talented friends <a href="http://karenbearse.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Karen Bearse</a> and D<a href="http://www.fishbowl.typepad.com/" target="_blank">eborah Mahnken</a> with Flat Susan.</td></tr>
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classes by the fabulous<a href="http://jenstarr.typepad.com/" target="_blank"> <b><span style="color: blue;">Jen Starr</span></b></a>! My
schedule did not allow me to take any of her classes this time, but we did pop
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Flat Susan is on her way to visit Kay in New Mexico. We really enjoyed
her visit to Northern Virginia and hope you had fun reading about her
adventures!</div>
Neethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13279125547309537517noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3641858695522335653.post-69439608549136717072014-02-11T20:13:00.000+00:002014-02-11T20:13:02.406+00:00 Flat Susan Irish Dances <br /><div class="post-header">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>So in our final
hoorah with our guest Flat Susan, we took her to the King O' Sullivan
Winter Feis. (pronounced fesh) This was my daughter Bridget's first
dance competition of the 2014 season. She has officially moved up to the
U14 category. Time just flies too quickly.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Susan had a
grand time meeting new people, learning all about how Irish dance and
competitions run, experiencing Ceili dancing, (team dancing) and even
getting to attend the awards ceremony at the end where pinned to my
daughters dress helped her accept her 3rd place award. All in all we all
had a very long and full day of Dresses, Wigs, Make-Up, Shoes, Dancing,
and best of all friends. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>This Feis was
hosted at the Marriott Evergreen Resort at Stone Mountain by the King O'
Sullivan school in the Atlanta,GA area. Several dancers from Irish
dance schools all over the Southern region of the US participated. My
daughter dances for </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Rince na
h'Eireann School of Traditional Irish Dance. The schools name translates
to Dance of Ireland. Our school host 2 Feis's a year. The Holy Angels
Feis which we raise and donate all money to the Holy Angels foundation
which is a Catholic Foundation which helps the disabled, and then our
Feis in October.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>There are
several levels of dance. Bridget is a Preliminary Champion level dancer,
and is working toward trying to move into Open Champion which is the
highest level of dance. The levels are Beginner, Advanced Beginner,
Novice, Prizewinner, Preliminary Champion, and Open Champion. You start
as a beginner and move to each level by winning each of your dances in
each of the levels. The dances are Single Jig, Light Jig, Slip Jig, and
Reel, which are all soft shoe dances. In hardshoe there is Treble Jig
and Hornpipe. Single Jig and Light Jig are not usually competed in after
Novice. Once you reach Prelim and Open your dances are based on your
birth year. So this year Bridget competes in Reel & Hornpipe. She
has a Non-traditional set called "The Three Sea Captains" There are a
total of 31 Non-Traditional set dances. Most dancers only learn a
handful in their career. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>So this is what
Susan has learned about Irish Dance. There is a whole lot more, but she
can only visit for so long. She will be on her way to her next host on
Monday or Tuesday. So I will now show you all the pics form her dance
filled weekend. I hope you enjoyed reading about Flat Susan and her
visit to Davidson,NC. We have enjoyed hosting her!!!! She will be missed
a whole bunch!!!</b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>1st Place 4 hand Team</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span>Neethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13279125547309537517noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3641858695522335653.post-72483129808415850092014-02-11T19:58:00.000+00:002014-02-11T19:58:07.337+00:00Flat Susan's & The Mystery Guest<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>So as you know Flat Susan is
currently visiting with me in Davidson,NC. This area north of Charlotte
is comprised of Cornelius, Davidson, and Huntersville. They are all kind
of intertwined with each other. In Huntersville is the studio of the
wonderful mixed media artist Donna Downey. With whom I know so many of
you are familiar with. Donna is delightful, brilliant and talented. She
hosts workshops at her studio with guest artist such as Mindy Lacefield,
Jane Davenport, CD Muckosky, and many more. She also travels the world
hosting workshops as well. Her website is </b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://donnadowney.com/">http://donnadowney.com</a></b><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>I had contacted Donna and told
her all about Flat Susan and her travels around the world and asked if
she would be kind enough to take a minute to have a meet n’ greet with
Susan, Well Donna was very happy to oblige. Not only was Flat Susan
excited, admittedly I was as well. Though I had previously met Donna on a
visit to her studio while shopping for art supplies, she is one of my
favorite artist’s. I also had my daughter Bridget with me who after
meeting Donna thought she is one of the coolest people on the planet.
(My daughters words).</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>After I had set up a time to
meet with Donna, I had kinda let the cat out of the bag and told Neet
what I had planned. I wanted it to be a complete surprise, but like a
little kid at Christmas, I couldn’t wait. Neet was beyond excited when I
shared the news. Neet, who is visiting with her friend Mary in the US
right now, had told me of a story about her and her friend Mary meeting
Donna at a CHA once. When I had mentioned the story to Donna that Neet
had told me about meeting at CHA, Donna had remembered them. It truly
goes to show how small the world really is. </b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>So Flat Susan had her picture
taken with Donna, who also kindly signed Susan’s passport. I was so
excited and caught up with our visit, that the only picture I took was
the one of Donna with FS. I actually had to go back to the studio the
next day and take some extra photos of FS around Donna’s studio. Which
really wasn't a problem, as I love going to Donna Downey Studio’s to
shop and browse. I usually stop by there and shop about once a week,
it’s only about 5 miles from my house. I can literally spend hours
looking and browsing. I digress though..... So without further ado, the
pictures from Flat Susan’s meet n’ greet, and her second visit while I
did a supply shop. I hope you enjoy.</b></span></div>
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Neethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13279125547309537517noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3641858695522335653.post-28040391199762923582014-02-11T19:54:00.001+00:002014-02-11T19:55:47.545+00:00Flat Susan Arrives in Davidson, NC (look closely at the pictures and you will see her)<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Well it has been quite sometime
since I have done a blog post. I am happy to do this post, as it is
honor of my tiny friend Flat Susan. She arrived safely from her visit
with Sandee in Hendersonville,NC. </b></span>
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world in her tiny little suitcase seeing the sights and meeting lots of
wonderful people along the way. She arrived in Davidson,NC shortly after
Christmas. Davidson is just a tick north of Charlotte,NC. </b></span></div>
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and showed her where I live. Davidson is a small community with about
10,000 residents. Most of our local businesses on Main St are in
buildings dating back to the early 1900's. In keeping Davidson a small
town community there isn’t even a fast food restaurant. Susan enjoyed
meeting local business owners who loved hearing about Flat Susan and her
travels.We stopped at Summit Coffee first to get a coffee for the town
tour. Though it is unusually cold right now, Kimmie is a lover of Ice
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<b>I have a few things in store for Susan while she is visiting. She has
a visit planned with a mystery person, which will be exciting for
Susan, and for Neet. Susan will also be taking a few Irish dance lessons
and attending her very first Feis. (pronounced Fesh) My daughter
Bridget is a comptitive Irish dancer.</b></div>
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<b>I am not sure what happened, but some of our photos from the tour
didn't take well, so I'll have to go back and add them later. I had
planned this post so much sooner, but shortly after Susan's arrival,
influenza hit our household. It knocked everyone on their backsides.
Well hope you enjoy the first part of Flat Susan's visit. Please check
out her blog at </b><a href="http://flatsusan.blogspot.co.uk/">http://flatsusan.blogspot.co.uk</a>, <b>or
just hit the button on the side bar of my blog. Look for the post with
my visit with a mystery guest very very soon.(((((HUGS))))</b></div>
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