Wellington sunbeams

So I’m uploading a fair bit to flickr at the moment. I always *have* to look at the bottom of the homepage, the section called Everyone’s Uploads. Earlier today were two images that contrasted hugely; one from a refugee camp in Jordan, the other from San Frans ‘Bay to Breakers‘ (which looks like fuuuuuuuun):

It’s a small world, but a very different one depending on where you live.

(The image of the Palestinian lasses can be found here, the Californians here.)

Not this morning, but lovely none-the-less:

Is unexpectedly really really cool!

I only have time to put up a couple of the highlights:

Mission Control (yep, that’s the real deal):

Shuttle and space station training centre:

The Saturn V was certainly the highlight. It is absolutely enormous. The first stage:

The second stage:

The third stage:

The top bit:

Apollo 17’s command module:

Mercury:

Gemini:

Next stop, Austin, Texas for South by Southwest.

At the Make party:

Another fancy party, this time for Frog Design:

Petey the Boston Terrier made us feel very homesick:

Tash Glen and Tash:

The next day I visited the Capitol:

Which has a Confederate memorial:

On the way back to the conference, I wandered past Barack’s Austin campaign headquarters:

SXSW was rockin’, but how about a little less swag? This is incredibly wasteful:

This sums up Vegas, the water in the fountain at Caesar’s Palace is dyed blue.