Well as promised, Australia Day was an absolute melting 39 degrees, but that didn't prevent the thousands of patriotic australians marking the occassion in style. Having moved our flights back to ensure we could take in the event, Stu was determined to fit in as much of the festivities as possible. So we were up early for a swim at Claremont 50m followed by our free bbq breakfast and watching the kids on the inflatable commando run. We dashed home to change ...

I can't believe we are nearly leaving Perth. It has just sunk in and so we have been busy doing all the things we said we would do! We visited Leaf cafe at Cottosloe which does lovely little cakes and mini gingerbread babies and chilled at the beach for a bit. We also bought an underwater case for Mel's digital camera which can go to 40m so we can take this one diving! in the evening mel cooked shepherds pie for everyone. On Sunday, we walked around th...

Well we've been back in Perth now for 1 and a half weeks and we have done very little... it's been great! Cassy treated us to Hot Chocolates at Perth Airport, before departing for Phuket leaving us a car for the following fortnight, and since then we have been slowly investigating the city and its suburbs. The biggest event was the arrival of Dook (Mel's South African uncle), Liana and Coto and we spent some time catching up with them before having a...

So we survived the speedway. i am not sure there should be so many people enjoying car crashes but i suppose when all there is to see is cars driving in a circle you need something exciting. Two drivers did have a little bit of a tiff in their cars which resulted in one spinning upside down! There was dust everywhere - stu had some lovely anti-dust glasses - thanks charlie!The night ended with the demolision derby - with awful car 19 just avoiding all the others ...

So we managed to get to melbourne Avalon airport on the sunbus ($18) and then had a lovely flight with jetstar. It is a cheap flight where the extras are put on top if you want them so we didnt buy any food but did fork out $10 for a personal DVD player which we then used our headphone splitter so we could both listen. We landed to discover Charlie had just left (confusion over daylight saving) and so jumped in a taxi to grandmo and grandpa's house. We ...