lee!!

New me!

So I have just come back from Melbourne where I spent a bit of time thinking about things. One thing I really want to do and am starting right now.. is get healthy again! Not to lose weight but just to feel better.

So my goal is to lose 5kgs every 6 weeks. I have been reading a lot lately and found 2 sites. One is a blog of a guy in NZ who has done the same.

http://www.andrewisgettingfit.com/

Its a great read of someone who has gone from 140Kgs to 85 and running a marathon!!!

Another site I have found is a running program, C25K. From couch to running 5Kms in 9 weeks. It looks like a really great program and looking forward to pushing through with it.

http://www.c25k.com/

This is going to be tough and with all the work travel coming up, its going to be difficult to stay on track but I really want to make this happen... so lets make it happen.

New Zealand

Hi all.

Got back from New Zealand this week... how sweet is that place!!  We spent most of our time in Queenstown but went to Christchurch and Wanaka for the 'Warbirds over Wanaka' airshow!

Check out the pics located in the photo albums on the right.  ---->

US Trip Day 10 & 11

Hey All.

Not a great deal happened here on both of these days. Tuesday was uneventful and yesterday it was a long day at work... bloody Brisbane (just kiddin Julian :-)

So to reduce the stress levels I decided to do a bit of shopping. OMG, things are so much cheaper. I bought a stack of shirts... all name brand tee's are $20 or less so I racked up the Visa and went a little crazy but hey... who cares!

Today (wed) I also got another opportunity to tour the Datacentre here in Denver... this place is massive. The datacentre is like twice the size of most houses back home.  I did manage to get some pics of it but I'm not allowed to show you. (not that you would care Paul)

Anyways... I cannot blog with out a pic or too so I will leave you with 2 pics I got when I was out shopping. This centre is like a outside Mall.

 

Till later... Lee.

US Trip Day 9

Hey all.

Not a great deal happened yesterday, just work and later in the day I wasn't in a very good mood.

We did end up going to a NHL hockey game which was pretty cool. One thing with sport here is they stop the clock all the bloody time so games seem to go for ever.

Anyways... here are a few pics!

Well I'll see you all soon enough.

Lee.

US Trip Day 8

Hey All.

During the week, Gordon (Our Aust Program Manager) offered to take me up into the mountains to show me around and to go Snow Shoeing. But as my luck would have it... there isn't a great deal of snow around for anything like shoeing.

First stop was the Red Rocks and the Red Rocks Amphitheater. 

The U2 live album and concert 'Under a Blood Red Sky' was recorded here at this Amphitheater

 

Next we were on our way to Echo Lake. Echo lake is about 10000ft above sea level. There was a bit of snow around but not the usual amount for this time of year. When we left the car it was 16F which for the metric out there is about -9C.  Luckily I picked up a nice ski jacket at Macys last night on special :-)

Below are some photos of the travel up to the lake and around the lake itself.

 

 

Echo Lake and the surrounding park.

    

 

Anyways its getting late.

Until next time.
Lee.

US Trip Day 7

Hey All.

Today's Saturday so I decided to go into Denver to have a look.  Jump in the Pontiac and drove in to the city. Grabbed a park and decided to check out the 16th Street Mall during the day. While its a beautiful street and very clean, there wasn't a great deal in the way of shopping.

The one shop I did like was the sheepskin shop, so I thought I would have a look for a leather jacket... first one I picked up was over $1200... so I walked away :-)

Anyways... I moved on up 16th towards the Capitol Building and took some photos of the building, the replica of the Liberty Bell, the Greek Memorial and a few other attempts of 'artistic' photos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

      

BTW,  Thank you all for your comments... have really appreciated them.

Cheers,

Lee

US Trip Day 6

Hi All.

Slow day at work today. Finalised some meetings with staff for the next week.

Don and I went out in Downtown Denver for Friday night drinks. We went down to the Wynkoop which is a pub owned by the Mayor of Denver. Had a few local brews and they did one thing I have never seen before.  If you don't know what the local brews are like, you can order a sampler.  Below is a pic of the sampler.

I have a couple of other pics to show.... below is downtown 16th street at night. 16th street is just like Brisbane's Queen St Mall.

And this one is for you Ash.

 

Cya.

Lee.

US Trip Day 5

Not a great deal happening today. Still at work and its warmed up which is nice.  It was about -6C this morning... I have never felt so cold but it wasn't too bad.

We went to a sports bar today for lunch and a real American burger.  I think I have notice here is how cheap food is and everywhere has free soft drink refills.  They also seem to love iced tea.  Another thing is when you buy a hamburger they ask you how you would like it cooked, and of course I looked like the biggest newbie and ask "what?" So I just went with medium which worked out nice.

If anything exciting happens... I will be sure to let you all know.

Lee.

US Trip Day 4

Well I woke up this morning and open the curtain to one awesome sight. SNOW everywhere!!

I was thinking about driving and then got a call from Don offering a lift... Phew!!  On the way to work we saw so many skid marks where people had slid off the road on to the footpaths!!

Its no where near as cold as I thought. Just wearing a suit and a scarf and at the time of writing its -3C.

 

The 2 photos below are outside of my hotel:

 

 

And this one was outside our building on the way into work:

 

I just noticed that the sun has come out so here is a photo from my window here at work. (please ignore the reflection)

Unless I get something else... bye!

Lee

US Trip Day 3

Nothing exciting today. Just another work day.  It was nice and warm outside until the wind came in.

Cya,
Lee.