We planned at Sami’s birthday
dinner to spend the day with the rest of the Scheffer family today. We started out by heading to Mandurah and
walking around the shops a while. Next
we went to the Mandurah foreshore and checked out the markets. Uncle Rob was well prepared by bringing some
bread to feed to the local pelican. Sami
went to look at a little jewellery stall on her own and in the process got
talking to the lady that owned the store and explained how it was her birthday
yesterday and chatting about travelling around Australia. It just so happened that this woman had also
travelled the country with her family when she was young. The woman was kind enough to give Sami a
little pair of butterfly earrings – I was proud of Sami for having the courage
to have this conversation on her own. We
walked around some more taking some photos along the way and heading across a
bridge to another market area. We were
all soon hungry so headed to Cicerellos Restaurant for lunch and again the food
was really good and we all left with full bellies! We left Mandurah and went back to Rockingham
along the foreshore. Josh had a footy in
the car so we had a kick around in the park, even Jiraporn with her fluorescent
yellow platform shoes – I can’t believe she can run in them! After a quick ice-cream we all jumped back in
our cars and headed for home – the NRL grand final between the Sea Eagles and
Roosters was on and Josh didn’t want to miss it! Back at David’s we watched the game – thankfully
the Roosters winning 26 – 18. Another
year of rugby league over!
A new week rolled around and
David obviously had to go to work. We on
the other hand, had the car booked in for a service in the north of Perth so
left late in the morning to miss the traffic and headed towards the Toyota
dealership. We dropped our car in and
fortunately were given a car to get around in for the day. Upon swapping cars we ventured off in the
direction of Perth to check out the coast.
We first went to Hillarys and wandered around the marina and shops. Unfortunately for the kids, we didn’t bring
swimmers (due to it being a little on the cool side) so they missed out on the
kids water amusement area. After a bit
of lunch we ventured further south and stopped to have a quick look at Sorento,
Scarborough, City Beach and of course the famous Cottesloe Beach. We then drove about in Mosman Park, choosing
out our favourite homes – it’s nice to dream!
We then drove through North Fremantle and explained the shipping
movements of the containers to the kids, amazed at the sizes of the boats and
how many containers were actually on each boat.
We were told that our car was going to take longer than expected so had
to wait until tomorrow to pick it up – so we headed home for the evening. We had a lovely lasagne and salad for dinner
and I’m sure David appreciated not having to cook dinner for himself for a few
nights.
We hung about “home” today, the
kids appreciating that they could rule the tv and watch some cartoons this
morning. I got lots of washing done up
to around lunch time when Josh went to pick up our car. In the meantime, I had him drop us three
girls off at the local shopping centre and we went in search of a
hairdresser. I had my hair coloured and
the girls got pampered by having their hair washed and trimmed too. We had time to kill while Josh was picking up
the car so afterwards walked about the shops doing some more window shopping
until Josh returned. We hung about when
Josh arrived and had some afternoon tea together, of course Zoe had fried rice
and Sami had hot chips – who would have guessed? We grabbed some groceries, running into
Jiraporn on our way out. Again we went
home for a lovely hot meal and this time we sat up and watched a movie
together. David enjoyed a bit of a
Barbie movie with the girls and once that finished we used his 3D TV to watch Oz the Great and Powerful.
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