Long, long ago, there was a young Kuniya (python) boy was surprised and ambushed by a Liru (poisonous snake). Liru threw spears at the boy striking him and killing him. The spears were thrown so hard that holes were left in the rock of Uluru, which can still be seen. The boys aunt felt the evil that happened to her nephew and went to search for the Liru, leaving traces of her tracks around Uluru. When the python woman (the Kuniya of the story) found her nephew she fell to her knees in mourning. Liru, seeing this, began to mock Kuniya. In her grief and anger, Kuniya took her digging stick and struck Liru three times, killing him. This is the only spot on Uluru where water from the rock runs red. Even though Liru was dead, Kuniya curled up on the spot and keeps watch for his return. The first photo shows the path of Kuniya and the second shows her curled up watching for Liru's return. If you look at the rock, the top of it looks like the head of a snake resting on it's ...
I was posting all Declan & Harper's photos to FB when I remembered I had this blog. I'm not planning on uploading ALL the pictures I have taken of them so far, but I figured this would be a much better venue for updating everyone rather than doing it on FB. I wish I had kept the blog while I was going through the whole process of getting pregnant with them...it would have been great for them to look at when they get older. So here's the short version: I decided in my mid-20s that if, by the time I reached 35, I was not married or in a long term relationship where that was the next logical step, I was going to have a family on my own. There are a lot of reasons for my decision; (more than I'm willing to go into on a blog) the strongest reason being I wanted a family & it wasn't something I was willing to put off until I found "the one". So when I got to Wright-Patterson, I asked about the possibility during my yearly exam & got a r...
I have to say, I'm very glad this was an organized trip on a bus and I didn't drive, because it would really not have been worth it. The ride is about an hour - the farm is only a few miles from the Saudi Arabia border - and there is very little to see once you leave Kuwait City. I was amazed by three things - the camel herds (cool), the amount of tent cities (workers, I guess), and the amount of trash in the desert (not cool). From the description on the website, I was expecting an in-depth farm tour - how they grow produce in the middle of the desert - that kind of thing. Once we arrived, we loaded up in a golf cart, the driver said, "This is potato." Pointed at a field. "This is lettuce." Pointed at another field. We drove through an open sided barn with milk cows in it, and were dropped off at a kind of petting zoo place. The kids loved this part, I will say that. They got to pet and feed the goats; Harper rode a donkey, they got to see camels u...
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