Misc

Last weekend we went for a drive with Rachael’s auntie to Preston. There are some awesome views, and a winery on the top of the hill. Apparently they import the wine though and don’t make it on site, so really it’s just about the views.

Was a great sunset the other day.

We went to the carnival of flowers again this year with the wine festival having another good line up of bands. This included The Whitlams, who I have wanted to see for ages. Unfortunately, the good line-up meant that they sold way more tickets than they were expecting and the place was packed. It was so busy you couldn’t even make your way around to the food and wine stands, as to get any where you needed to squish your way through the crowd at a snail’s pace to go anywhere.

Tried out the mountain biking in Toowoomba for the first time today. Roller-Cat was a nice fun ride for Rachael’s first time.

Went for a jog up tabletop, and took some photos. These photosphere shots even look cool in 2D. You can look at it street view style on G+ here.

Went for an early morning jog to the Japanese Gardens test out the camera on my new phone.

So despite an unsuccessful earlier attempt when we first moved up to Toowoomba, we still hadn’t climbed Tabletop Mountain. On Friday night we were out with a girl called Liz, who said that they were climbing it on Sunday morning to train for Tough Mudder at 5:30. So after lots of convincing, I convinced Rachael that we should go along. Although upon waking up and seeing the cloud of fog, she was unconvinced again.

Today Rachael and I went in the Peak2Park fun run from Picnic Point to Lake Annand. The weather was pretty terrible, cold, foggy and rainy. The amount of people there was impressive though, I didn’t expect so many people to turn up. We didn’t think to take a photo with our bibs on until after we got home (right). I did the 10km run in a time of 56:50 (on the clock), and Rachael did the 4km (actually 5km according to her Strava recording) in a time of 34:42 (from Strava).

Triple J provided a nice shareable link this time around for your votes. I found this year was continuing the trend of getting harder to pick 10, as I no longer have a clear idea going into voting what my favourite songs were - due to slackness on my part of listening to new music. Luckily the voting website is improved, and lets you listen to all the short-list on the fly.