A week in our life

Our week:
Sunday night: Andrew arrives
Monday: Kids have play practice after school. Lucinda has "Social" tennis after dinner.
Tuesday: Swimming Carnival in the evening. Felicity picks up 2 Firsts, Alice 3 firsts and a second while Lucinda and Matt come in Third (ie last) in the parents swim relay. Lucinda goes to Book Club.
Wednesday: Public Holiday for Deepavali. Geocaching with Andy at Labrador park. Felicity spots a snake guarding the cache and runs flat out for 200 m screaming, abandoning her uncle and sister who are just looking perplexed and only a metre from the snake. All survived and ended up locating three caches but not game enough to find the one near the snake. Then we went to friends for a late BBQ lunch. Andrew leave for KL.
Thursday: Lucinda does Table Tennis practice after work.Matt goes off to Tap. Andrew returns from KL
Friday: Matt takes kids to early morning dentist appointment as Lucinda has to be in at work to get ready for the big day of the AustCham President's Luncheon and Business Awards. Andrew leaves for Melb.
Saturday: met up with other Avondale Families for a jog at Bedok Reservoir and a BBQ.
Sunday: Church and then Sentosa for the kids to try the flying trapeze. They loved it. Then a play on the beach. In the evening, Matt and Lucinda used free tickets to see a 5 Grand Piano Chopin concert with 5 visiting Polish pianists.  Pretty awesome.

This week is the International Schools Cross Country meet and both girls are in the team so we are hoping for some nice weather on Friday afternoon. We've been getting lots of bursts of tropical rain at the moment.

A quick update

Life has been fairly busy recently with the girls back at school and Lucinda having several work events last week that had her starting early and finishing late.  On Friday night I went to a farewell party at a Karoake venue.  It was basically a private room with pool table, xbox, food, drinks and a karaoke juke box.  It was good fun and with 4 mics there was some good enthusiastic singing going on. The girls are into rehearsals for their school musical - Cinderella Rockafella - and have also got into the computer game Minecraft. Instead of watching TV right now they are exploring a strange world, taming unicorns and constructing amazing structures, houses and minecart tracks out of lego-like building blocks.  I think it's better than just TV - certainly more interactive and they also are talking (and arguing) about stuff together.

On Saturday we took the girls 10-pin Bowling before seeing a movie (Dolphin Tale) and on Sunday afternoon we all dressed up in order to watch Toy Story 3.  Alice was Rex the dinosaur, Felicity was Jessie the cowgirl and I was a dashing Ken to Lucinda's "exercise" Barbie.  Sadly, all photo evidence was destroyed in order to protect the innocent.

Andy arrived last night for another visit and is staying until Wednesday evening.  I think we've seen him more regularly in his new "Australia-only" job with than when he was at HP!  Wednesday is a public holiday (Deepavali - Hindu New Year / Festival of lights) so we are thinking of some plans for what to do while he is here.

Scene Around Town

 So our girls haven't been around seen our town recently but I spotted one of them in an advert in the ANZA Magazine so they are still making their presence felt here. I also had my pic in the social pages of the Expat Living. I think the High Commissioner hangs around me because he knows that's where the photographers will be ;)

Here's pictures of the girls having fun in Pomonal. Thanks Elissa for the photos and for everyone who is making their time in Oz heaps of fun.

Missing them lots but it's good to know they are having a happy time.