Long weekend in Adelaide

A weekend in Adelaide to visit family, and to compete in the South Australian Orienteering Champsionships.
Bruce raced cleanly, but didn't have the early season speed to match SA's Lachlan Hallett on home ground on Friday evening. Held at Wadmore Park on a forest area with many tracks, the course provided good challenges for a sprint distance race. Arthur led by a few seconds early and held on to the lead until around the 2.5km mark. However, Hallett was able to open up a 12 second lead over the final kilometer in relatively easy track running.
Results http://www.oasa.asn.au/2006/summer10.html

On Saturday, we visited a farm and model railway at Littlehampton, which Mason thought was quite good. We then returned via the Big Rockinghorse at Gummeracha.





Mason and Torren played with cousin Lauren in the afternoon and evening.

Torren thinks that he can feed himself now.

10 Years at Accenture

Today, Bruce celebrates his 10th anniversary working at Accenture, a management and IT consulting company. This has included around 15 projects, 7 clients, 5 countries, 7 trips to Chicago, 1 brand change, 6 career counsellors, 3 major promotions and hundreds of great colleagues.

No Stopping Torren Now

Today Torren was walking more than he was crawling. I think he figures it is the more efficient way of moving now.

Orienteering Season Opener

We all travelled up to Porcupine Ridge (15 mins NE of Daylesford) for the Orienteering Season Opener event. It was a mass start 'peg' race with quite a good turn up. Basically, if you were in the lead, you had to run a penalty control to allow the others to catch up. Consequently the result meant nothing, but it was a good opportunity to get back into the bush and practice orienteering technique and terrain running.

Mason and Torren played in the dirt, while Bruce was elected as President (5th year) at the Melbourne Forest Racer's AGM.

Torren also went to the playground a couple of times and managed to climb up the steps and slide down all by himself.

Daisy's injury

Daisy has been spending more time outside recently, but we may have to rethink that strategy now. On Saturday afternoon she must have been chased by a dog and caught herself on a fence. She ripped a flap of skin and we had to take her to the vet. The vet was concerned that she may have trouble passing urine, so he kept her in for overnight surgery to check everything out.
She seems to be getting better, but is looking pretty funny with a cone around her neck for a few days to prevent her from biting at her stitches.

Torren is walking 3 or 4 metres now

Torren has really got the hang of walking over the last few days. He can stand on his own for quite a while, and can walk several steps on his own without falling over.

Mason even said "Look Mum, he's walking".

Meanwhile, Mason has learnt how to tell "secrets" at kinder. Last night he whispered many secrets to us, even though we couldn't really hear what he was saying!
Mason can now count to 100, and has learnt to recognise half a dozen letters. His favourite is 'M' for Mason.