Wednesday 18 July 2012

Today's the day






Today we became Australian Permanent Residents.
Its been a long wait with quite a few twists and turns.  All of it leading to great experiences, nonetheless its just amazing to know that we can finally plan things.
Not that we have many plans.........except to buy a barbeque (thank you Barsbys).
Well we wouldn't be real Aussies without one would we?.

Yey to us.  
As you can see I'm drinking fizz.  Arthur is raising a JD in Queensland.

Monday 16 July 2012

Escape


The sun came out yesterday so we decided to do the same.
Our favourite beach.  
Empty on a Sunday afternoon.
Where is everyone?



 


Biscuit Baking


 

We've cut a lot of shapes out of play-doh recently.... it's been mostly raining.
I dawned on me that if we did the same thing with biscuit dough... 
we would have something nice to go with cups of tea (and bottles of milk). 

We both did mixing and cutting but Skye was in charge of getting the sprinklies on.

Yum.



Just checking that we've put them all on the biscuits.
The big Australian biscuits are mine.  MINE. MINE.


Friday 6 July 2012

Boat Tripping


On Sunday we took a boat trip out to the Islands.  
It could have been cheesy but it wasn't. 
We had a magical day.  
Fresh air, bright sunshine and water with a slight chill.

A Manta Ray cruised past the boat and a turtle rolled by, raising flipper to wave.
We lunched with a lizard and swam with an enormous blue Wrasse. 

A winding path led though the bush to the look out over Whitehaven beach.
As we walked I could only think how much I love to walk and of all the amazing places I have walked.  Such a simple pleasure.
A short walk but I enjoyed it as much as the perfect view that we reached.

A good day.  Lucky us!






Whitehaven Beach


Layla loved the chugg of the engine and managed a lot of this!


Smiley Girl



A short moment of peace, I closed my eyes and hear the word 'mummy'!






The Blue Wrasse

The way home.