Pictures from Canberra, the capital of Australia. This was our first stop. Kat's friends Steve and Anneke did a fantastic job of showing us around.

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We drove past the Australian National Musuem.

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On our way to the parliament building (with the funny flagpole).

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The National Library

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The Telstra Tower (which we didn't actually make it to)

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A tall national Chrstmas tree. In the summer. Wacky. The white building in the background is the old parliament house.

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The current parliament house.

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The Great Hall in the parliament house. It was set up for some kind of party.

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One of the three remaining original instances of the Magna Carta.

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The Senate chambers

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The House chambers

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Me, in my funny Australia hat (which I got in Seattle). It served me well, keeping the sunburn off my face.

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There's a large lawn up the sloping sides of the parliament building. You can walk up to the top.

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The view down the slope. You can see the War Memorial straight down the street.

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More views from the top of the parliament building.

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The flagpole. The flag itself is apparently the size of a double-decker bus.

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The first of many of these "raytracing" sculptures. We called them that because their simple geometric shapes and mirrored surfaces are exactly the kinds of scenes that are simplest to raytrace on a computer.

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Lenore, being raytraced.

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This is the largest wooden flagpole in the world. It's made from one tree, and was a gift from Canada.

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The Telstra Tower, and the walk along Lake Burly-Griffin. The Burly-Griffins were a husband and wife team from Chicago who won the competition to design the city of Canberra.

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The National Library. There are people practicing rock climbing on the wall in front.

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Inside the National Library (in the foyer). There's a lot of stained glass.

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We were driving around the part of Canberra that contains the embassies. Across from the US embassy, we spotted this kangaroo in a field. I named him Joey. It was the first kangaroo Kat and I had seen, so we made the driver (Nikita) stop, and we got out to take some pictures.

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We slowly approached Joey, as he watched, but didn't jump away.

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Joey watches us take his picture.

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We got pretty close. This is a really good shot, just before he hopped away.

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Goodbye, Joey!

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The centre of Canberra, as seen from a faraway hill.

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On said hill, we stumbled across this mob of kangaroos. How many can you spot? :-)

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The carillion tower. It was a gift from the UK. There was also a geocache nearby.

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Steve took us up to a park on another hill to catch the sunset.

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That night, we went out to dinner. Steve chose the wine and Corqy (the artificial cork with the tag attached) tasted some.

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