Posts from ‘November, 2006’

Hello Everyone!! Conrad, my mom and I are spending the weekend at a WONDERFUL resort called Cape Hillsborough Nature Resort. Going in a northerly direction up the coast, it’s a half hour drive from Mackay, just before Seaforth. For more info on the resort, you can go to: www.capehillsboroughresort.com.au Once again I have taken loads [...]

Hi All On this day in 1792 the building of the White House began with the laying of the first corner stone.  The White House is the official home and principal workplace of the President of the United States of America. The house is built of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the late Georgian style. It [...]

Hi All Tonight we had a Texas hold’em game onboard…   and I won!!!!  (to the un-initiated that is Poker)  Wa hey Pete is really stoked.  It was a 5 dollar buy in and we were each given chips (well, actually they were tokens from the board game Risk) worth 500 pieces.  4 players so the [...]

Hello Everyone FINALLY!!!  I have located an internet café.  I’m currenly in Airlie Beach in Whitsunday.  We (my mom and I) started out in Sydney and we got some pics of the Opera House and Harbour Bridge. From there we made our way to my brother in Mackay.  My brother has been absolutely wonderful!  We’ve [...]

Hi All On this day, in 1519 Hernan Cortes, a Spanish conquistador who won Mexico for Spain. Cortés left Spain for the New World at age 19, joining Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar (b. 1465-d. 1524) in the conquest of Cuba (1511). In 1519, with 508 men and 16 horses, he burned his ships on Mexico’s [...]