Thursday, June 21, 2012

Heading to Halong Bay

Today we leave our hotel and the beautiful town of Hoi An. We are going to get on a big boat for two nights, which means we cannot do our blog for a few days. Happy holidays to all our friends at school, Vismaya, Amber, Awina, Carter and Mrs Allen; Nico, Gage, Alexis and Miss Duran.

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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Making lanterns

Today we visited a lantern factory. We made a lantern, which was really fun. To make a lantern we had to put glue on the sticks, then stretch and stick the material down. We got to choose our favourite colour. Alex chose red and Elizabeth chose pink and green. We also got another one for free.

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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Elizabeth at the potter's wheel

Today Elizabeth got to make her own pottery piece. She said the clay felt very squishy and wet. There was a lady who was spinning the wheel with her foot and a lady who helped Elizabeth make her little cup.

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Captain Alex

Today Alex got to drive a river boat. He said it was fun. He took us down the river to a village where everyone makes pottery.

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Friday, June 15, 2012

Cane juice drink


Alex just bought a fresh, sweet glass of sugar cane juice. Delicious!
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Ella's New doll

Elizabeth says, "I just bought this doll, Hannah, from a man on a bicycle. It was fun."

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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Dinner in Hoi An

Today Elizabeth and Alex arrived in Hoi An, a little town in Vietnam. They took two aeroplanes and slept on a train  to get here. For dinner tonight they are having spring rolls and rice pancakes. They are also learning how to use chopsticks to eat their food.

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Sunday, September 4, 2011

Happy Father's Day

What a great way to make Dad feel special. We came over to my parents' place today armed with a bottle of Baileys, a box of chocolate covered scorched almonds and a desire to clean something. This idea was mostly driven by me because my car desperately needed a wash, too.




Saturday, December 4, 2010

Santaland at Myer

The highlight of our trip into the city was a ride on the Santaland train in Myer. They have a lovely display of Christmas decorations and this train ride that the kids loved. Afterwards we went to McDonalds for dinner then up to King George Square with about 2million other people to see them light the big Christmas Tree. Throughout all of this, the kids were way more patient than I was.


Looking at the Myer Windows

A big store, Myer, is famous at Christmas for their special window display that they do every year. This year was the Nutcracker. Ella, as you can see, was super excited by the display. Alex not quite as much.


Rudolf Rides the Train!

Ella in her Christmas get-up. The rid into town was very exciting for all three kids and maybe a bit annoying for anyone that shared our carriage.


Monday, November 29, 2010

Double Protection

There is no way this ship is going down! Charlotte is ready to go swimming with her water wings on and her floaty ring. Too bad she doesn't like to actually get wet.


Sunday, November 28, 2010

Bowling Babe

We went to a ten-pin bowling birthday party today to celebrate our friend Piper-Lee's 5th birthday. Alex and Ella had a great time rolling big, heavy balls down a waxy alley. Alex scooped the win in the last frame with a strike. He beat Ella by about 2 points.


Saturday, November 27, 2010

Mess? What Mess??

Friday, at Playgroup, we did a group canvas painting. The kids squirted paint onto the canvas on the ground then used their hands, feet and in some cases bottoms, to spread the paint around and make a very colourful ... mess.


Hand Painted

Ella getting right into the spirit of the idea of painting with every part of your body.


Hands Up... Or We Shoot

Charlotte and our friend Joe with spray bottles loaded with paint. This picture was taken at the beginning of the painting mayhem, before everyone was so covered in paint that we had to strip them off and hose them down.


Thursday, November 25, 2010

Decorating Time

It's not December yet but the temptation to decorate the Christmas tree got too great for my mum. The kids had a great time. Alex is convinced this is the most beautiful tree in the world. I tend to agree with him.


Christmas Elves

My mum invited us over for dinner today and the kids got to decorate the Christmas Tree at her house. Some of the comments: Alex "We are the luckiest kids in the world because we get to decorate two trees - one here and one at our house"; Ella "Can I put the star on the top? Can I put the star on the top? CAN I PUT THE STAR ON THE TOP???!!!"; Charlotte "Look Nana, jingle bells"


Friday, November 12, 2010

Townsville Tourists

Today was wet, wet, wet! We decided to go to the Townsville Aquarium for the morning where we had convinced Ella that we could go underwater without getting our eyes wet. We walked through the glass tunnel and saw sharks, stingrays, a sawtooth shark and lots of Nemos and Dorys. It was lots of fun. Today is our last day in Townsville. We start the two-day journey back south tomorrow to see Bill for the first time in 4 weeks.


Turtle Treasures

Not the best lesson for my kids, I guess, but riding this turtle was a bit of fun.