Sunday Runday

So before I start about today, I should say that I now have my iPhone back, wahoo, and it's connected to a network and everything, so I'm happily back to being a 21st century digital girl. It's allowing me to take pictures on the fly a lot more, too, which is really handy. This week went well, I have an essay due on Friday which is what I'm taking a break from writing seeing as it's supposed to be 1000 words and I'm at 115o having not yet written a conclusion. So some time out to see what actually needs to be in there still is a good thing :-)

Baby ducks! These guys were on path on my way to the library yesterday. What you can't see is Papa Duck who was on the other side of the tree and not very happy with me, probably because there was a couple on the other side of the tree ogling too. So I took off pretty quick a) to not irritate him further and b) because I didn't want to be 'that person' who got attacked by a duck for getting too close :-)

It's probably hard to see, but the moon is up there somewhere. I think I took this at around 5pm yesterday, so there was a moon and a sun. Of course the sun comes out the day *after* we were supposed to have an outdoor gathering. It's the Vancouver situation that's followed me to Canberra, I think.

This morning I woke up at about 9am and it was another gorgeous day. For those of you interested in my workout routine (meaning, probably no one), it's week 3 out of 13 in my 10k training, which I'm doing because I do it every new year for the Sun Run. I'm a few weeks or a month behind my Vancouver counterparts, mainly because of moving here and having no set 10k run to train for. I've looked up a few different runs here, in the fall (or spring here), I should be good to do a few of them. Anyway, the run I had to do today was the longest yet, and I've been going along this one path so I decided to take another exit and see where it lead me. I ended up where I suspected I would, but what I didn't anticipate was how long it would take me to get back to the path I was normally on. So I ended up out for 20 or so minutes longer than I was slated to be, which was ok since it was so nice out. These are a few of the pictures I took along the way, which I could do because right now I'm at run 3 minutes walk 2 (x7). The path only veered off of the lake for a bit, which was great. It was quiet and peaceful for the most part.

A view of the lake from the path.

A tugboat docked in the lake. Actually, I'm not sure it's a tugboat. It was docked outside the museum.

The lake from the museum path.

The museum. And I have a horrible memory so I don't know which one it is. The National Museum maybe? Eep. I'll get back to you on that.

More shots of the museum. I'll have to go in at some point!

The orange structure was fascinating. It almost looked like a roller coaster loop, only it was it's own freestanding structure.

And finally, these guys greeted me across the street from the Botanic Gardens. I was a little intimidated by them at first, but they minded their own business so I did too :-)

Well, there you have it. Now I'm back to writing my essay. If only it was as easy of blogging, but then I guess everyone would be doing it :-) Tomorrow is Canberra Day, which is a local holiday and the Enlighten Canberra festival is going on this weekend and next in celebration. When we went to look at events to go to last night we found that the options were pretty limited and fairly expensive which was sad, but tomorrow there is a free celebration happening from 2pm so I hope to make it there after a meeting I have at 4pm. I just hope the weather holds!

Til soon!