A Trip to the Theatah (I Mean Theatre)

A friend of ours is an amazing performer. She is in a group called Dislocate. We were happy to have been invited to see their show called Curiosity.

(Our friend, Kate)

Don’t tell anyone I took these pictures. I didn’t get any cool tricks. I’m just not that good.

They do a lot of circus type tricks. The show was pretty funny and they even did a little song and dance at the end. Lilly really enjoyed the show (and loved that she knew one of the performers).

They have a page on Facebook, check them out!

My Newest Buddy

This guy was found in the bathtub:

He made it out of the house alive.

But not much further than that.

And yes, the container does say Bug Catcher. Although I think it would be better named Spider Catcher since that is the only thing we have put in there.

We have seen a plethora of spiders here. Seth's co-workers say that because of the rains that all the spiders have been coming out to play. Most of them have been harmless, but I'm pretty sure we've had a couple I would not want to meet with a bare foot.

Happy Birthday, Alex!

One of Lilly’s friends just turned 5 and he had an Octonauts party. Lilly was so excited. But considering we don’t watch television, I have no idea how she has seen the Octonauts!

But wait! There’s more!

Look what baby Adlai has added to his repertoire:

This one only took 9.5 months.

Point Nepean

We drove down around the bay to the national park at the tip. There is a Quarantine Station that is starting to be refurbished (refurbished? I don't know if that was what I was thinking when I wrote this, but it's staying). At one point the 'hospitals' were used as barracks and I swear somewhere I read that the area was used for a camp (dorm room style, but I still can't imagine what kind of camp would have been held there)

This was the machine they used to decontaminate the luggage and stuff. Hence the luggage on the conveyor belt.

I really like the look of brick so I always get pictures of Lilly in front of it. Just ignore her hair, it’s her latest style.

Afterwards we took a little hike. It was a bit chilly but the sun was shining so we warmed up pretty well. Seth and Lilly even did a little play on the beach. I kept Adlai with me on the path so he didn’t get all sandy. Plus, I wasn’t feeling well and just wanted to sit and relax for a little bit.

Adlai seemed to enjoy his ride. Well, he fell asleep 5 minutes after we started walking and just sunk lower and lower in the pack. Notice the hat he got for the holidays. The was the last we saw of it. Time to go hat shopping for one with a string.

Hot, Hot, Hot!

Another scorcher! I don’t think it was as hot as yesterday but it was hot.

Anyway, we headed to the Docklands near the city to give Lilly a chance to let off some steam. She’s been trapped inside the house (with an occasional short romp outside) between the heat and the sun. So we took her to Monkey Mania. It’s an indoor play structure. Lilly had a grand time. She actually started talking to some other people and running around with them (we had tried to get some friends to come along but everyone was busy or sick.

No More Work than Necessary

2012 has become the lazy year. We just couldn’t find a reason to get moving! Well, and the fact that it was even hotter today. Our air conditioner is getting a workout, that’s for sure. Lilly wanted to watch a movie with dinner and ten minutes into it the electricity went out. She probably didn’t need any more television for the day anyway!! And having nothing to do with the above mentioned power outage, our oven stopped working today. At least all we were trying to make was chicken patties for lunch. Not some fancy dinner. Let’s see how quickly this will get repaired. When our oven stopped working at the old place it took weeks to get it fixed.

A New Year with an Exciting Start

It’s getting hot down here. I think the high was about 38 C. Trust me when I say it was hot.

We had a quiet day although we did break out the water table. Lilly had put together her Lego boat and wanted to see if it would float. The water table was not the best way to try it out as the boat barely fit inside but Lilly got to see it float. In the end all the boats were suddenly able to fly as there were games of chase with the Lego people.

The trucks were a purchase made a Toy World last week while we were looking for a birthday present for someone else. Seth was excited they had Jets but I was disappointed they had nothing for me.

Seth told Lilly she could have the Indians truck since he isn’t a huge baseball fan. Somehow Lilly ended up with both trucks in her car storage case.

I wasn't really serious about the exciting start. Pretty boring but nice and relaxing.