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Friday, December 25, 2009
An Aussie Christmas
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
The rest of 2009….
Peace
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
RIP Michael Jackson
With Michael Jackson’s memorial tribute concert airing world wide last night. I thought
it would be fitting that I upload our Michael Jackson effort from a couple of years back. Inspired
by the Cebuano Prisoner’s of the Philippines, we put on our orange overalls and danced
Thriller for my little cousin’s 21st birthday party… We only had one night to learn the
Thriller dance. It’s not the most synchronised Thriller rendition you will ever see but, it was
synchronised enough for our little cousin’s 21st…
check out the bust out performance from the Stevie Jnr…..
RIP Michael Jackson 1958-2009
THRILLER – Deanna’s 21st Birthday Party……
Monday, May 18, 2009
The trip North….
forward too.
View Heading North of the Border in a larger map
We are moving to Brisbane for work and we have mapped out our route. Over 1000 km’s a 13 hour road
trip the Mexican’s are a coming. It is gonna be pretty awesome, moving up North, I bought Bernadette
the Lonely Planet for Queesland, to get us both excited about the move. Living in Brisbane will be
different but exciting at the same time.
All we need now is a place to live!
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Leover and Bernadette’s South America
Peace
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
On the road again….
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
When travelling on the HURTIGRUTEN Travellers BEWARE…
Courtesy of the Norwegian Cruise liner the Hurtigruten……
Thank you, thank you very much, i’ll be here all week :-)
Peace
Sunday, February 8, 2009
124 on the Wii Fit Balance Game - PENGUIN SLIDE new WORLD RECORD!!!
Tonight was up and down, Anne started the night of by scoring 112 on the Penguin game,
NEW WORLD RECORD 124 LEOVER POLESTICO
ON THE Wii PENGUIN SLIDE
Come at me!!
Sunday, January 18, 2009
BERNA TO THE RESCUE - RICA HOTEL, HONNINGSVAG
Honningsvag isn’t a very big town in winter, there are about 3000 or so permanent residents here but in summer the population quadruples with seasonal workers and thousands of tourist coming here. Talking to the locals, the place sounds like one big party in summer, with the endless sun, warmer weather and thousands of tourist, it sounds like Dubrovnik of the north. There can be over 200,000 people coming to Honningsvag in summer and all visitors come here to visit the Nordkapp and arctic surrounding countryside.
There is a micro brewery in town with it’s own local brew (our tour guide to the Nordkapp was funny when she said, ‘the people in Honningsvag don’t drink much, they only like to drink when the sun sets.’ very amusing). The northern most brewery in continental Europe is back down in Tromso (the Mack brewery) but Honningsvag like to claim that they have the northern most ‘micro’ brewery, go Honningsvag.
The people here are friendly and very helpful, I guess they are use to tourist coming in and out of there town during the year, but I’m not sure many come here in winter time, like us :-)
So, from the boat we headed out to find a place to stay, we end up visiting the brewery for food and something to drink, we saw a sign outside saying Internet so we thought we could log on and find some where to sleep for the night. The internet wasn’t working so we couldn’t log on, luckily for us the locals came to our rescue. The Rica Hotel, which is a hotel chain in Norway, Sweden and Denmark has three hotels here in Honningsvag but in winter only one of them is open. We called up to find out about room availabilities and prices, the conversation didn’t last very long as the price for a hotel room was way too much…
After having some dinner, I had pizza and B had a chicken taco (yup, pizza and chicken taco’s in the arctic, GOLD!) and having no other options with accommodation, we thought we would try again at the Rica. Success, B worked her magic and got us a discount with the hotel room for the night, thanks to Steina our soon to become Honningsvagian friend. We had a place to stay in Honningsvag.. Yay!
We arrive at the hotel and we see that the lady B had spoken to on the phone Steina, was the same girl we had met earlier in the day up at the Nordkapp working in the souvenir shop. We where like, ‘man, your everywhere’ and had a laugh. Steina, was really nice she helped us out with accommodation, there was actually only 3 people in the hotel, 5 including us two.
It was all good, we settled into our room which was AWESOME…It was huge, better than the hotel room we stayed in at Tromso, which was in the Thorn Polar Hotel. The thing you gotta love about staying in the north and arctic is that the bathroom floors are heated. It’s awesome, even on the Hurtigruten the bathroom floor in our cabin was heated. Love it!
We had planned a big night out in the town, but the room was so cosy, B passed out on the bed after 5 minutes, and I mad videos… Great day, so glad we found somewhere to sleep, cause it’s freezing outside.
Peace
Saturday, January 17, 2009
The Nordkapp (North Cape) and back again….
We signed up for the excursion Hurtigruten offer to the Nordkapp (not the cheapest thing on the planet, but then again, when you come to Norway, expect to pay) and off we went to 71 degrees, 10 minutes and 21 seconds…
The boat cruise was brilliant, the boat was immaculate and the services we’re of the highest standard, we both loved it. The Hurtigruten is highly recommended for seeing the the beautiful coastline and islands of Norway.
Check out our trip from Honningsvag to the Nordkapp below:
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Tromso Lights
Sweet :-)
Peace
Thursday, January 8, 2009
HAPPY BIRTHBAY B :-)
This is for you Bernadette Marie Kennedy :-)
Bring on
NORWAY – Tromso, Hammerfest, Alta, Oslo
THE NORTHERN LIGHTS,
SNOWMOBILES,
A BIG A$$ BOAT,
REINDEERS,
ICE HOTELS,
COUCH SURFING,
THE NORDKAPP,
SKIING,
and anything else anyone wants to throw our way :-)
As long as I’m with you i’ll always be smiling :-)
Happy Birthday Silly Girl
Love you always
Silly Boy
Saturday, January 3, 2009
A very MARY Christmas.. A late but worthy Christmas Poem
In my family we have dance off’s to communicate our Christmas wishes to each other across the planet. We video tape the dance an then upload the video onto Youtube and whoever gets the most views wins our Christmas Dance off competition.
In the Kennedy household on the other hand, it’s a little different. They have an annual Kris Kindle Christmas Poem competition. Not being the greatest poet, I thought I would add my own Carlos Garcia flavour to the competition this year :-)
Below is my Christmas Poem to Mary…
MARY KENNEDY CHRISTMAS POEM ‘THE REMIX’
Peace
Friday, December 26, 2008
BOXING DAY FUN WITH STACK ‘EM’
It’s boxing day here in Henley-in-Arden and we had a massive feast once again. Left over turkey from yesterday also came into play but the Gammon was the centre piece of our feast this evening.
In the morning we had a visit from B’s relative’s the Bentleys.. Awesome, time, the kids had a Nintendo DS so I was having a go, I want one now…
The girls went for a late afternoon stroll through the countryside while I stayed home and slept. The afternoon was very nice but freezing, it think it was about 1 degree outside. The sunset was quite nice too, with clear skies all round.
The Christmas weekend here in Henley has been the best time. I think everyone ate enough to get them through to next Christmas, with plenty more left. We didn’t really do much else but eat sleep and drink while being out here in the countryside, which was great. I was in my PJ's all day today, just to be in the spirit of Christmas.
We played Cluedo tonight before and after we ate dinner. We all found out how much of a gun Janice is at Cluedo winning all the games.
It will be sad to leave the country side tomorrow, but it was a successful and great Christmas.
So I thought I would sign out from the country with some classical Mozart with my own little twist..
Here it is enjoy…
Now, where’s the nearest Gym!!
Peace
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
MERRY CHRISTMAS FAMILY……SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE CHRISTMAS DANCE OFF!! – ENGLAND ENTRY!!
Hi Family,
I hope that everyone is safe and well for Christmas…
we are safely tucked away in the English country side, we are in a cottage in Henley-in-arden..the place is beautiful, very english I have to say..
But I do miss all of you… Bernadette’s clan is taking good care of me, Stephen has just prepared a turkey for tommorow and
we spent a fortune on groceries today so there is plenty to eat… hehehehehe
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!
LOVE YOU ALL…
Below is our entry to the SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE CHRISTMAS DANCE OFF!!!!! hehheehe
ENJOY!!
The video was filmed at 730 am on the 24th of December (today) at Sainsbury’s Solihull, England during our Christmas shopping effort…
AWESOME!!!
Peace