Koala Time Down Under

Decided to share another photo from the past. I'm putting it under my "relax" tab which is ironic because it was a work trip. I was in Townsville, Australia for a melioidosis conference. While I was there I actually got to go out to Magnetic Island and saw Koalas in the wild (this photo is not from there). They are hard to spot in the trees but we did manage to see a couple (unusually because someone else spotted them first). On our day home we squeezed in a quick trip to the Billabong Sanctuary before we headed to the airport. Billabong is a wildlife park in Townsville that is kind of like a cool zoo in the forest where you can interact with some of the animals. I got to feed Kangaroos and hold this little beauty below while I was there. Australia is such a beautiful place which so much cool wildlife. I particularly like the birds and flying foxes (fruit bats)!

Art - something old and something new

I found some old drawings I did when I was a kid of Eddie. He was the mascot of Iron Maiden and appears on all of their album covers. A couple years ago, I convinced Emily to draw one of their album covers of Eddie as well (she was 12). She loves to draw but this was definitely not the type of thing she liked to draw. She didn't want to do it but she did it for me because I begged :)
I love how she kind of turned it into a card for me. She is so sweet.



My first Eddie drawing (the edges got cut off during the scan due to the size of the paper)

My 2nd drawing of their live album

Emily's version of the Killers album