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Friday 10th October 2008-
Derek took the day off work and celebrated a low key birthday, as requested! We spent the day at Point Walter and the weather was just perfect. Elise took her kayak and once Myra, Pim and the girls joined us the kids all went off sailing! We had a BBQ then had a leisurely afternoon relaxing! We had a meal booked for the four of us that evening at the 'Little Mexican' restaurant. The food was excellent and very authentic (I had stir fried cactus in my meal...it was very nice!). Derek had a great day and was very pleased with his pressies (thank you everyone) of a catamaran, aftershave, clothes, 'Rolling Stone' magazine subscription, money & cocktail shaker!!
Sunday 5th October 2008-
Thought we'd get some fresh air and exercise today so we got our walking boots on and went down to Jarradale, a old mill town about half an hour away. Had a bit of a crash about in the bush and claimed another cache then went onto the local pub for an Irish coffee, yay!
Wednesday 1st October 2008-
Whilst Elise & Stella got their skates on...Myra & I sat and shivered (I forgot what COLD was!!!!).
Monday 29th September 2008-
Two weeks of no school or work (sorry Derek!), now that sounds like a plan to me!
Monday 22rd September 2008-
Four weeks passed quickly and it was almost time to say farewell again to Mum & Dad. Not before having a nice slap up meal together at 'Miss Mauds', before their long journey home the next day.
Saturday 20th September 2008-
Drew, one of four nominated from his school, took part in the annual UWA Mandarin Speaking competition. For this he had to publicly speak to an audience for two minutes about himself in Chinese!! He did very well (even though we couldn't understand a word of what everyone was saying!) and was awarded one of the runners up prises in his age group...well done Drew.
Saturday 5th September 2008-
Elise took part in the 2008 WA Primary Schools' Massed Choir festival @ Winthrop Hall, UWA. It was a thoroughly entertaining night with choirs from 10 primary schools all singing together to form one mass choir which sounded amazing.
Sunday 31st August 2008-
The weather was feeling pretty warm for spring so we decided it was BBQ time!! We drove out to the beautiful Mundaring Weir were we (or should I say the main man on the BBQ, Derek!) cooked our lunch. This was washed down by a nice cold beer from the Mundaring Weir Hotel!
Thursday 28th August 2008-
After Mum had, had her hair done by her personal hairdresser in Aus (thanks Cath!), we thought it would be nice to have a drive out for lunch. The sun was shining and it was pleasently warm so where better to go than the Carmel Rose Gardens. The food was rustic, fresh tasting & yummy!
Monday 25th August 2008-
Mum & Dad arrived from the UK (via Dubai) to spend four weeks with us :-)
Saturday 19th July 2008-
Sadly our holiday was at an end but before our long drive home we had our lunch at the pub and I also had a mulled wine to warm me on this wild wintery day!
Friday 18th July 2008-
With another storm on the way we decided to go to the Sandalwood factory this morning but on the way passed the 'Oranje Tractor' winery and got sidetracked!!! It is a very small vineyard owned by a very friendly couple Murray & Pam. The wine produced is organically grown and they rely on travellers and those on working holiday visas to help pick the grapes in return for free accomodation & food...hmm sounds good to me! We ended up having lunch there, which consisted of a platter of home produced & local produce even down to the homemade butter...it all tasted amazing! The Pinor Noir was just the best we've ever had & we took a few bottles home with us! On our way home we grabbed a cache from a world war two bunker and with that we got caught in a hailstorm and got absolutely soaked to the skin!!!
