Mum is enjoying her 'rest' in her holiday home. Ha ha!! Mum said she’ll need a week in Spain when she gets home to recover from the exersion of looking after two kids. She’s even had to peel potatoes and cook (IN AN OVEN!) for the first time in years! She’ll need trauma counselling when she gets home, I think! The kids love it though – they can eat what they want, when they want and I don’t even want to know what time they are eventually falling into bed at night! Still, they’ve got until the end of January before they go back to school, so they may as well enjoy their freedom!
It's a hang ga oooo (as Adam calls them)
On Friday, Mum, the kids and I went to a local wildlife park. It’s a little unloved, but you can feed the kangaroos and they have koalas there, so it’s a good place to spend a few hours. Adam took quite a shine to the Wombat. Darcie however, always finds an animal that takes a liking to her at this park (for all the wrong reasons!). The first time we went, it was a very ugly duck with one of those red, floppy things on the top of it’s beak that make it look as if it’s run headlong into a closed patio door. It decided Darcie looked more tasty than the food in her bucket, so decided to peak away at her instead!
The second time we went, she was harassed by a Dingo. This time, she was followed round the park by a very fierce looking goat – complete with horns! It looked like it had gone ten rounds with Tyson; it had half it’s ear bitten off and everything! Evil. Apart from that, animals were fed, patted and humiliated and we came away happy.
Ride that dinosaur! In King's Park.
Saturday we went to King’s Park in Perth for a BBQ. I was very organised and took with us a flask of coffee, beer and wine and lots of yummy food for the BBQ. The weather was lovely; not too hot, not too cold….. just right! So we sat there and let the kids play all afternoon. It gets very busy there, so there is lots of fun to be had people watching.
Something else to climb all over - hooray!
Sunday, we took the boat out again. We dropped it in Mandurah and went for a blam along the estuary before crusing down the river. We stopped for a picnic and the kids played on the park for a while before heading off again and letting Sam and Darcie have a go on the Donut.
Wwweeeeeeee!
Speed Queen Darcie just wanted to fo ‘FASTER’ all the time. Very difficult on the river where there’s a speed limit of 5 knots! We then pulled up at the pub in Ravenswood and stopped for a beer before heading back down the river towards Mandurah. Just as we passed under the old Mandurah bridge, we bumped into four dolphins and watched them feeding in the shallow water for about 20 minutes. I did manage to get a few pictures, but it’s very hard trying to predict where they are going to appear!
Follow my finger.....
All aboard the Skylark.
Mum changed the booking for her flight home yesterday, so she’s now staying for Adam’s and Darcie’s birthdays. Sam looked a little disappointed that she wouldn’t be prolonging her visit for his, but for Pete’s sake, his isn’t until September!! Paul would be bald if he thought Mum was going to be staying that long! She’s now flying home on the 19th Feb - I’ll look to get her a cheapie to Spain for the first week in March (o:
Oh, yes, we had unwanted house guests for Christmas – bloody mice! Honestly, every house we’ve ever lived in has had a visit from the Mickey gang, it’s beyond a joke. We started off being nice and catching them in a humane trap and releasing them over the golf course. But after a while, we realised that they were making it back into the house before we were and by the time we’d dumped them and washed the trap out, they were already seated on the sofa with a cup of tea and a Tim Tam, watching ‘Deal or No Deal’. That was it! The big guns were out and the poison was unleashed. Mice only laugh at us once, let me tell you. I think they may have stowed away in the container – they certainly weren’t local mice. I could tell this as they had sunburn, cork hats and were commenting that the cheese wasn’t as nice as the stuff from Marks and Spencer. Cheek!