Jen Jen in Gin Gin

Last week, we went on another day with John. This time, up to Joolamar - NORTH NORTH of Perth, by our standards anyway - It was near a place called Gin Gin, where, at night, you can see the milky way!
We went Mud hopping this time, instead of dune-bashing!

We took the obligatory BBQ and snags, with pleanty of beer. This is John chatting to PP about going camping there in a couple of weeks. He even has a tent for us - watch this space!


John's mud seemed deeper than ours?


Jen Jen had a bath - in Mud and then we tried to see how far she'd go before falling over - we didn't try too hard!

Jase - John's son got in a bit of a pickle as he likes to try out his 4by. This ditch was deeper than his Cruiser, which he's jacked up to about 10 ft high!!


We got him out...

...Eventually! What a ball!

OUR 4WD first day of testing 'Jen-Jen'

I know - it's a strange name for a car, but Nutts was so upset at losing Bessy, we aksed her to name the new one......

We were invited to go on a day's drive with John from work and we had a BALL!
Some pics to show you what we mean...
Firstly, letting the stinky air out of the tyres to just 15psi - I normally keep them at 35psi!




Our companions and saviours for the day were John, with Sasha, the dog and John's Son & Daughter, Jason (we get everywhere! almost as many Jason's as there are Emilys?) and Mel. Mel took her own car - the hairdresser's Suzuki Vitara, which could hair-dress on the side of a mountain the way Mel handles it!!!
John reckons the only reason she bought it was to show the rest of us up! He's RIGHT!

We had to have a go at getting up didn't we?
John almost did it, but did I?






We stopped for a few snags - twice, as it so beautiful there. we even saw a Skink, that John accidently ran over, but no harm done! It just shrigged off the sand and went on - It WAS alive!




And we had SUCH a good day - we're gonna go back!









Mel and Jase showing off, going over a steep bit of dune!

Day trip to Mandurah for a coffee?

Day trip to Mandurah for a coffee?
You'd think we were mad, but it was such a beautiful day, and it was a DOTT (Duties other than teaching) day for both of us, it'd be rude not to, wouldn't it?




We found a little dighy that we'd like...

Found a little heart for PP to sit in...




And a general view that would be nice from the lounge???
What do you think?

Dressing up for guides night

The girlies had to dress up as different nationalities last week.
Can you guess which countries they were representing?
Nutts thought her character had to give the OK sign for some reason??
Maybe she thought they were called CringO...Ks


Noonie had her hair done like this as she had to demonstrate how intricate the hair was in her time as her character... and she wanted to show off anyway!!!

Serpentine Dam

I said we'd put some pics of the Serpentine on didn't I?

So here they are:;

This was taken in the picnic park at the bottom of the Dam - You can see my bunny-ears were getting sun-burned if you look closely?

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Here, we were using our new toy - Our portable Barby. A steal at $17.00 to cook our Smokey Bacon Snags on - BLISS!

The Sky was just incredibly clear, with so much oxygen given off by the Gum trees, it was just wonderful there! - Another one to add to the list when you guys come see us?

Leading down to the water - we took the steps, only to realise when we were there, that you could actually DRIVE down too! - Doh!

View from the top - Beautiful
GORGEOUS place to have a coffee?

This was us as we arrived. Nutts was being herself...

...Nuts!

Tallest trees in the area, made me feel quite small?

Coming back soon - for more cappuccinos of course!

Guides Promise

The girls are (as of last Thursday) OFFICIAL Guides of WA!

They took their candel-lit promise last Thursday at the Willeton Scout & Guide Hall, where they've been going for about 10 weeks now.

Here's Noonie, to explain what happened:-

First we went into horseshoe and then I went up with another girl from my patrol and we went to my guide leaders. They dressed us up with our badges which were: our reigon and Burrendah tapes, our Guides Australia badge, our reigon badge, our patrol badge (I'm Koala) and two pins, a pin with the trefoil and the guides Australia pin. Then we took a candle, our certificate, our "Look Wide" book and something we could keep a cup with our name and 1st Burrendah Guides on it.

Good - Now here's Nutly:-

Hi Guys,

I miss you lots and as you know Em and I have done our promise at Guides and I am now oficially a Girl Guide!!! Sending all my love to Nanna, Grandad, Mamma, Grandad, Aunty LoLo,

Uncle Dave, Pete, Uncle James, Aunty Bev, Jack, Niamh, Oliver, Kipper, Ticher, Boo boo, my best friend Jen jen and every one else!!!(Wow thats a lot of people to remember!!!)

Love you all lots and lots,

Nutty bear (Caitlin!!!)

xoxoxoxox

Sorry about the pics order - This Stupid piggin Blogger has stopped me from moving the pics to where they make sense! - Someone's gonna get an ear-full!

Off to Serpentine River today - will take the camera, so you can see tomorrow?

Cheers,

Jcp

Day out in 'London?'

PP wanted a day out to do some clothes shopping...

"Whoopeee" I said - NOT, so the girls and I took the opportunity to 'explore' Perth CBD and look for a bowling alley - which we DID'NT find, but DID find the Little London alley which connects St Georges Terrace to Murray Street. Lovely little alley with Perth's idea of what London shopping would've been like in medevil times, I think?

The clock tower (last picture) has animated jousters which gallp around the hole above the clock face every 1/2 hour.

Official Open Day for Work

A big day for us all in 'K-Town' as the lads call it - we think there are too many "anna-annas" in the name Kwinana! lol

The Education Minister came to officially open our new place, with Liz Harris - Our 'Principal' and other Hob-Nobs.

We had a treat as a local Drag Racing team (I always imagine leggy men dressed in sequened frocks, wearing tiarras, running round a track when I say that!) brought their 'BABY-car' to us.

They even started it up (It runs on Alcohol) - What a WASTE!!!

The REAL cars (Top fulers) run on Methanol (That bit's for you Si!)

The noise was AWSOME!!!! I could feel my eyes jiggling and found myself sliding across the floor as it was shaking too!

Some more exhibits here:

A tractor puller, Holden Commodore SSV Wagon, Scooby Doo WRX...

Oh, and NIGE with Geoff!

Sorry about the order of pics on this post - Blogger won't let me move them to where I want them? Jcp