This weekend was the Mandurah Crab Fest. It's an annual event; food and wine based to celebrate everything good in WA food. There are lots of fairground rides (although at $7 a pop, I'm glad my daughter was considered a midget and unable to ride (o: )
Darcie and Adam try to hook a duck.
We met up with some friends, so wandered around, let the kids spend a few bucks and then settled down ready to watch the fireworks at 9pm. As it turns out, the firworks were very good; they were let off from both sides of the river and they had fireworks that exploded in the shape of a heart and ones that looked like they'd gone horribly wrong and just fizzed and landed in the water... until 30 seconds later, they started into life and spiralled round, letting off lovely colours into the night sky. This was much better than the 'parade' which took place at 5pm. It was billed as 'filling the streets of Mandurah with all the life and colour of carnival'..... it was pants! It was full of teenagers full of attitude, dressed up as little lolitas with faces plastered in make up supposedly masquerading as 'dancers' and a local radio PA van, a few sad looking floats and a man dressed up as a crab!
I ask you; hardly Mardi Gras!
So, apart from the excitement of crabs...... well, as you know (OK, belatedly!), Paul's op has been postponed until 29th March - just as well really, as work was REALLY busy last week and I'd never had coped! The kids enjoyed wacky hair day on Friday and went off to school with red and blue hair in 'free dress'. This Friday we have the first ever Secret Harbour Primary School beach carnival to look forward to. The kids walk to the beach and spend the day there playing 'sports-day' type games in and out of the water. They'll then have a BBQ for lunch and more fun and games in the afternoon. Hopefully they'll then be knackered for the weekend (o:
I know I've got loads more to tell you, but my mind's gone blank! So I'll just post this little update with a few pictures and post another entry soon.
Take care guys - email me )o: I'm lonely (o;
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Arthur (as in 'arfa house) now has his roof tiles on.
We worked really hard in our garden this week and shifted two and a half trailer loads of gravel to make the garden look nicer. What do you think? Fancy a PIMMS?
And this is how well the grass came back after we fertilised it and treated it. We had it cut on Thursday and it looks cool.
