Had a local festival on this weekend in Mandurah known as the 'Stretch Festival', an arts festival with wood turners, indiginous people, (known as Aboriginals) with their local arts and bush crafts, stalls for children to make puppets - juggling balls and much more. In the afternoon there was a performance in the Mandurah Performing Arts Ctr - a mpany of youths that performed a 2 hours show of acrobats, juggling, fire eating etc. I took Finn, he thoroughly enjoye...

Took Mum and Dad M to the airport for their trip home - Think they had a god time and we kept them busy !!! Finn went off to school. Rich and I had our first day off together on our own without Finn since we arrived !!! - practically 6 months -can you beleive we have been here for that time ?!? It was a beautiful day, we sat in a coffee shop on the foreshore reading and watching the dolphins play. We must have been there for a couple of hours ! The rest of t...

Took an overnight trip to Margaret River - this time the evenings are dark a lot earlier than when we came in January, so went to see the surfing when we arrived which was lucky as the following day was wet !! the day before we arrived had been the final of a massive surfing competition with world wide competitors. took them to some wineries which i think was an experience for them. Got a new vehicle this week a 4 x 4 Nissan patrl, runs on lpg which is availabl...

Richard took his Dad and Finn for a slightly belated birthday present to see some proper footie, (aussie rules) at the main perth stadium - the 'Subiaco' it holds 70,000. apparently it was awesome, even if the local side got thrashed !! Have been to a wildlife park where mum and dad were able to hold a koala and feed kangaroos. we took a trip to Perth for a tram tour, Joondalup to see the academy, a theatre outing to see Miss Saigon which was great. We have eve...

Finns 1st day at school, well we call it school, he wont start (pre school) kindy until January 2009 but felt he would benefit from this now to prepare him for then. Dropped him off and off he went, not a care in the world. Rich was working a day shift, I went and treated myself to a much needed 1st aussie haircut !! then more boring jobs like shopping, cleaning. Still felt very strange, after all Finn and I have been with each other all the time since we arrive...