Catching up with Mum and Dad

The last day of NAPLAN was an extra special day, as Hilly and Pop were due to arrive that night. Lexie was keen to cook ‘her dinner’ for them. We had ordered pumpkin soup to share for lunch at the Whale Station in Albany, and Lexie loved it so much, she went and asked the cook for the recipe. All completely of her own accord – she just disappeared and came back with the recipe! She had cooked it for us the next night, and had ordered some delicious sour dough bread to serve with it. We were fully expecting her to get the squishy white bread, but she thought the sour dough would ‘go better’. It sure did! Duncan and I raved so much about her meal that she wanted to make it again for Mum and Dad. No complaints from us!

We had spent the afternoon preparing Bertha for guests – swapping the beanbags and little tables for the mattresses and making the beds. The washing hamper went into the shower for storage and everyone was told to store their own dry towels on their beds. The towels now have more chance of getting dry thanks to Dunc’s latest renovations – a washing line under the awning. I LOVE it!!

Mum and Dad arrived quite late thanks to the same Perth peak hour, and Lexie had perfectly timed dinner to sit down and eat right away. We had toyed with the idea of meeting them at the airport again like in Tassie, but that traffic convinced us otherwise.

We had a wonderful night of catching up and I gave the kids a ‘day off’ school on the Friday as a chill out from NAPLAN and because Hilly and Pop were there to play with. We had a lazy Friday hanging out. Mum took Lexie shopping for her future birthday, and Dunc took Dad to get some oil. Angus and I hung out at home and watched a movie together. It was a lovely low-key kind of day, just spending time with family.

Saturday was altogether different and we wore Mum and Dad out walking ALL around Kings Park. Well not really, since its so enormous you have to drive between parts. But we did walk rather a lot and spent almost the entire day there. We started at the Dinosaur playground and finished in the Rio Tinto Naturescape playground and in between saw the War Memorial, the Giant Boab Tree, climbed the glass bridge, climbed the DNA Tower and squeezed in lunch! Any thoughts of stopping in the city centre were thrown out the window and we all went home to recover.