This weekend was the end of the school holidays and the girls went back for Term 2 today. Last week activities included an easter parade, two days of having friends over including Holly for a sleep-over, a day at the zoo and Gena took the girls to see Alice in Wonderland. They were both very impressed by Alice cutting off the dragon's head with a sword - that was the first thing they wanted to tell me about. Friday night we had Andrew drop by for 90 minutes on his way through to Israel. He had got off the Tasmania ferry that morning so was having a very very long day of travel. It was great to catch up with him, even briefly. Stress levels rose slightly when we couldn't book a taxi but we eventually got one and he presumably made his 1am flight.
Saturday morning we headed to the Chinese Garden, hoping to be the first to find (FTF) a new cache. While we here hunting around the likely tree, the couple who had actually found it first walked up to replace it. So close! It was nice to meet some other goecachers and have a short chat. After doing two caches at the gardens we walked to the Singapore Science Centre which is like Scienceworks. The girls enjoyed all the hands on exhibits about sight, sound, robots, etc. and we'll need to go back again to do the areas we missed. The visit wrapped up with a play in the waterworks area - we love that all the big attractions in Singapore have water play areas for the kids.
After picking Buckley up from doggy day-care, we all went into the K9 Cafe where we and our dog enjoyed afternoon tea with other people and their dogs. Lucinda was in heaven. We then dropped Buckley off and headed to a final farewell at a park for the Primmer family. Leaving there we dropped the kids off with Gena and headed out for dinner to celebrate Claudi's 30th birthday. It was an enjoyable evening of Thai food to complete what ended up a fairly long and enjoyable day.
This Wednesday night Lucinda heads to Australia to complete the Ofxam Trailwalker 100km event this weekend with Kim, Chrissy and Debbie. We're sure they and the support crew will do very well.
This Wednesday night Lucinda heads to Australia to complete the Ofxam Trailwalker 100km event this weekend with Kim, Chrissy and Debbie. We're sure they and the support crew will do very well.
Buckley was in heaven too at the dog cafe. He got so many pats and its the only place I know where he can jump onto other diner's laps and they just appear delighted.
ReplyDeleteAnd I think "Easter Parade" may have been an exaggeration. The parade (pictured above) consisted of Alice as the bunny on the "float" (which was just my office chair) being pulled along by Felicity dressed as a giant egg! Having just seen the parade in Disneyland, they had prepared well and roped off the area to keep the crowds back(Matt and me). The bunny was handing out hot cross buns. I couldn't stop laughing.
Another Alice and T inspired drama performance- Oh dear, we couldn't be there - I hope it had a theme unlike Zoe and Otto's Beechworth performance last week.
ReplyDeleteWE had our own performance here at Beechworth on Sunday. Obviously Leonie (we a house sitting for Leonie)runs a drop-in centre here on Sunday as beside the 3 invited to lunch we had another family 0f four who needed accommodation for the afternoon and finishing after 6PM. All very nice people but it did make long day. The exhortation about "going the extra mile" was great, but we didn't realise how soon we would have an opportunity to put theory into practice.