Perth {Home}

We are here again!

J is helping out a builder he used to work for by doing a job and well given it is school holidays it made more sense to 'hide out' in Perth.

We arrived on the Friday and spent the night with Jamie, Peta & little Sadie.  It was a great night, even if Sadie decided to have no sleep all day and a lot of the night {that is why they make babies cute},  Saturday we pottered around for the morning and then headed to Applecross for a picnic lunch, was a beautiful day.

 

Next stop was Mum & Dad's place, where we took our standard spot on the 'lawn'.

Time flew by the first few days as we caught up with a few people and Thursday I decided to take the kids to the Dinosaur Exhibition at the Museum of Western Australia.  We ended up with their cousins joining us.  I must have been crazy, four kids, just me on a train, during holidays to the city!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We all survived and the kids all loved it.

The weekend saw Easter, which meant more catching up with people we had yet to see {and trust me we still missed seeing loads of people we would have love to have caught up with}.  Easter Monday I came down with the dreaded lurgy which threw out a lot of plans for the week.

Wednesday we headed back to Bunbury as Kyla needed to go to the Dentist again, stupidly I got the appointment time wrong so we drove all that way for nothing.  Well not really nothing, we had a lovely evening at Aunty Di's place {she even cooked, with her still broken foot} and then a morning tea with Nana Pat & Pop before trekking back to Perth.

The kids had a sleep over at Alison's with the girls that same night, which they LOVED.  Friday I bummed around the house while the smalls and J where out.  And we spent ANZAC Day dinner at the Parkerville with the family.  It was hard all of us getting together for a meal and Mum not being there with us, we all felt it.

We blinked and the weekend had passed us by again, I really did feel like nothing was really achieved!

Monday Alison's girls had a pupil free day, so we decided to head to Kings Park.  Even though the weather wasn't the best {and most of us forgot jumpers} the kids all had a wonderful time.  It was nice to just hangout for the day before we all headed in our own directions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday we ran around and finalised everything we needed to do.  Including packing somethings into our newly purchased sea container {yes that means we are now the proud owners of two 20ft containers,

Then it was time to say goodbye, this time for a larger distance and an undetermined amount of time.

Historial Gwalia Townsite {Day Visit}

So much history, so many stories and so well maintained.

The old pub, the first government owned in Western Australia is a grand old building.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The townsite of Gwalia is all but abandoned these days and has been since the early 1900's has so much of a story to tell.  The buildings are so old and the museum which is now on the site of a very large mining whole has some grand old buildings.  One of which was Herbert Hoovers house, which is now part of the museum and used as B & B.

 We had a great look around the museum, including coffee & scones on the verandah of Hoover House.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We saw the old Mine Managers house, the Mine Managers office and all of the old things that they had inside them.

 

 

 

 

I have HEAPS of pictures of all of the old stuff inside the museum buildings {so am going to limit to only a couple here}.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next was a spot of lunch down in the old townsite before walking around to have a look at the old buildings, homes of families & workers. It is wonderful to see that the people of Leonora are using their own time to maintain these buildings, to keep the history of the area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next stop Kalgoorlie.....