Good Little Australians

It's Australia Day today!

We are practicing at being good future Australians by flying the national flag from our balcony. Perhaps all the heat has gone to our heads, lol.

I finally sat down to do a bit of scrapping today as it is too hot to do much else. These are some pics from Connor's birthday party at Zone 3. I am trying to get into a boy frame of mind as girly layouts seem to come easier for me. Practice makes perfect I guess.

Kids are back at school tomorrow and Eilish is away on camp on Wednesday. After having them around constantly for the past six weeks it could come as a shock to the system to have a quiet house.

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Grab A Drink For My Longest Post Ever (but it has lots of pics)

Gary, Eilish and Connor are taking Rox and Chris to the airport. There was not enough room in the car so I thought I would do a little pictorial of their stay with us. For those of you who have visited us before, you may recognise some of the places. And for those of you yet to visit, feast your eyes, heh heh.

Most of these pics are compliments of Chris's camera as he was a happy snapper and made a great job of it to.

We toured German villages and drank German beers, viewed Adelaide from on high, tasted wines and consumed gourmet delights in McLaren Vale, rode the waves in Port Elliot, walked the jetty in Glenelg, raced the horse drawn cart in Victor Harbour and meandered through North Adelaide.

So lets begin our whistle stop tour of Adelaide.

All Aboard!

First stop- North Adelaide Cathedral

Not far from where we live

The river Torrens, with Elder Park to the left.

View of Adelaide from the top of Mt Lofty (excuse the haze)

The main street of the German village 'Hahndorf'

Eilish, Rox and Connor

Using Connor's head as a comparison

(Rox and Chris's purchases from Hahndorf x2)

Rox and Chris drinking said purchases before playing us at Risk

(the beer must have helped cause Rox finally won a game, hee hee)

The entrance to Hugh Hamilton Winery

(McLaren Vale)

Rox and Chris

Tasting time. Yum!

Coriole Cellar door

(beautiful place but have to book if you want lunch)

Coriole Gardens Just a nice outlook LUNCH (smug smile, we booked) Beautiful Glenelg - a tram ride west of the city Glenelg - still looking fab Horseshoe Bay in Port Elliot (south of Adelaide city) Rox and Eilish - looking good Riding the waves in Horseshoe Bay Gary oops, Wipeout!

and last

A view of Victor Harbour

That's all for now. Hopefully I will be back next time with something I have actually scrapped.

Happy Birthday Connor for the 17th of January

The day before Connor's birthday he had a party with all of his friends at Zone 3, the local Laser Skirmish. With 12 people invited we were all set for 3 teams of 4. With great glee Connor managed to rank 1st out of 12 in the first game. Go Connor!

Chris, Adrian, Jason and Connor - the Yellow team ready for action. Would you trust these people to win a war for you?

On Saturday morning, Connor's actual birthday, Gary, Rox, Chris, Eilish and the birthday boy piled into the car to buy Connor's birthday present. He had decided to pool all of his birthday money and left over Christmas money to buy 'Guitar Hero World Tour'. The kit comes with guitar, drums, microphone and game disk. Take a look at our budding rock stars. We have been busy showing Rox and Chris around Adelaide over the past few days. I thought I might post a few pics of places we have been for those of you interested to see the lovely place we live in. Will work on this tonight or tomorrow. No time to scrap at the mo and I still need to do something about my blog layout. All in good time.

Computer? What computer?

Hi all! I haven't touched my computer in so long I just about had to brush off the cobwebs. School holidays are in full swing and we are busy being out and about enjoying the fabulous weather. Though I must say that 41 degrees C on Tuesday is not so fabulous. Good news, my camera is finally fixed and in time to snap pics of our visitors. Gary's daughter Rox and partner Chris are staying with us for the week. Taking the opportunity to catch up with Gary and visit Connor for his birthday. Who can believe it, Connor is 10 tomorrow. We are having a party for him and his friends at the local Laser Skirmish and Rox and Chris are taking part too. Hopefully the big 24 year olds won't pick on all the little 10 year olds too much. Will see if I am able to get any pics though I am not too sure if it is possible.

Oh Dear

Happy New Year to one and all. We are back from our camping trip and totally trashed. Lots of sleep to catch up on but we all had a great time. Unfortunately my camera has been broken since before Christmas (arghhh) and I have been unable to take any pics. A quick post to update my site as it is no longer Christmas. Will be back later. Wow! 2009 already.