Last Saturday

First, let me start off by saying Phil has had a lot of stress at work these last few weeks. The end of the quarter close and all that, and he has been working some long hours. Even had to go in to work Saturday morning. How does he deal with all the stress, you ask? Perhaps he should take up a hobby, you ponder. I give you the culmination of his stress-relieving activities...building a viking ship out of beer cans.

Just kidding...this was an exhibit at the National Maritime Museum in Darling Harbour that we walked over to on Saturday afternoon. Apparently there is a boat-built-out-of beer-cans competition every year in I think, Melbourne to see which boat will actually float and win the race. Here's the museum.

We saw lots of cool exhibits...Trash or Treasure: Souvenirs of Travel, Commerce, Passengers, Navigators, The United States of America Gallery, the History of Swimming and Surfing, the Australian Navy (sorry the picture of the helicopter is a bit dark),

the fastest boat ever,

and the best thing...it was free admission! Nice. All the boats outside, military ships and submarines, as well a replica of the sailing ship, The Endeavour, that Captain James Cook was on when he "discovered" Australia were not, so maybe another day we'll go back and take a look.

Rats...I thought I'd figured out how to get these on the blog with them coming in sideways. Well, if you tip your head to the side you can see a replica of The Endeavour behind the lighthouse.