On Wednesday Christy’s school had it’s school fun day (which is held every other year). I had uniform shop and kindy fittings till 11am, but was able to hang out with Christy for a bit afterwards.
Because this is a fundraiser for year 6, they help out at the various stands/games/rides. Here is Christy manning the lolly stand.
As you can see, after it being cancelled last week due to bad weather, they had the perfect day this time around.
There are a lot of rides and Christy & Hana had fun racing each other on this one.
In the evening we headed to the Montessori school for an information session on the high school and IB program…..
and amazingly enough we were the first to arrive – something that is a very rare occurrence indeed :-).
Thursday was hopefully the last day that would crazy busy for some time. The last few weeks have been far too hectic for me and I’ve missed being at home, and hanging out with my pups.
As most days, it began with a morning walk.
I then went to the chiropractor as I’ve had a sore back for some time now (mainly first thing in the morning but it’s been getting worse). I then had to get my groceries and attend to various other jobs. Later I had to pick up Amy from her drama rehearsal, then take Christy to swimming, then take Amy back into Wollongong for her drama performance. I was in & out the house for hours!!! Being that it had been such a busy and crazy day we decided to have a quick dinner out before the show (Amy had to be there an hour early). We opted for yummy Mexican and I had a lovely quesadilla..
On the back of the theatre there is a lot of street art so we took so we took some time to admire it. Hopefully in the school holidays we’ll get to go and see the rest that has been put up as part of the Wollongong Wonderwalls Festival.
Then it was time to sit and relax and enjoy Amy’s drama performance.
Though I didn’t understand much of what was going on, it was great seeing all the kids up on stage. And, of course, we thought Amy did an amazing job.
Yep, I’ve been a bad, bad blogger yet again. The last few weeks I’ve been crazy busy but I think (hope) that it’s all behind me now. And I should be able return to blog on a more regular, and more current, basis. Not only have I been a bad blogger but I’ve not even read another blog in WEEKS!!! Oh, dear – I just looked and I have over 2,000 unread blog posts!!!! I guess I know what I’ll be doing over the Summer holidays :-).
Anyway, on with last weekend. Which started with seeing Catching Fire in Gold Class with Amy & Kevin. We all loved it. Christy visited with the Powells and we had a little chat & tea with them when we picked her up.
Saturday morning I took the pups on a big 40 min walk because they would be on their own all day.
Then we headed up to Sydney to visit with my Mum. We stopped along the way so I could buy this Christmas bear for her. How cute is he? Think I might need to go buy one for me as well :-).
We had a really nice visit with Nan (Mum) who is doing SOO much better than last weekend.
Amy gave her a lesson in selfies.
And check out the view from her new room. Even on this yucky morning you can see see Centerpoint and the Harbour Bridge.
After our visit we headed over to Darling Harbour and had lunch at Grill’d.
Loved this place. I had the Garden Goodness and it was so yummy. Unfortunately I didn’t save the photo I took of it :-(.
Then it was time to visit the Maritime Museum.
We had given Kevin a family ticket to see the Viking Exhibition. When we got there we found it also included entrance to the boats. And since both girls were tall enough, we decided to do that first :-).
First up was the HMAS Onslow.
I was rather nervous to go on the submarine but it wasn’t as bad as I had feared.
Not sure I’d want to be on it under the sea or if it was crowded, but I enjoyed my visit.
Next was the HMAS Vampire.
Inside it was like stepping back to the 60s.
We tried to take a family selfie. This was Kevin’s attempt…
and this was mine…
Christy had fun sitting in the gun firing seat.
The weather had cleared up from this morning and it was the perfect day to be by the water.
We checked out the viking boat replica. It holds 70 people!!!
Then finally we got to the Viking exhibit.
All the artifacts were found in Sweden, which we thought was cool since we’ve been there.
While we enjoyed the exhibit, it really wasn’t as good as we had hoped/expected it to be. Like always, a guided tour would have been beneficial.
There was a quick stop before leaving at the British lolly shop. Even though I’m not eating sugar at the moment, my family were desperate to pick out some goodies.
I wasn’t interested at all until I spotted a fav. I had discovered in Germany (that is obviously sold in the UK as well) -milky way crispy rolls. But funnily enough I still haven’t eaten it yet:-).
After a very busy day on Saturday, we all just wanted a day at home on Sunday. I spent the day putting up the Christmas tree (with Christy’s help) and decorating the home.
I’ll share some more photos in a future blog post. And if you want to see more of our weekend be sure to check out my day in the life vlogs.
