Our Week In Perth

Well, we left Perth yesterday after a great week there staying with Blair Leah and Todd. We arrived on Wenesday 2nd and left Wednesday 9th. Dan (my youngest son) has just started work cooking in a mining camp and flies in and out to the camp with the same company as Blair. It was good to be able to pick them together from their planes Thursday night (and the planes were considerate enough to land within wo minutes of each other!) Leah and I picked them up, Russ cooked us a big feed of whiting we had brought with us from Walpole.

Friday Mick arrived-Dan arranged and paid for that as a birthday/mother's day present for me and a birthday present for Mick. It's not very often we have as many of the boys in one place at one time, so it was a wonderful few days for Russ and I.

It's been a busy week though with planes being met and departing (Mick on Tuesday) kids taken out for lunch and brunch, new tyres on the car, a visit to the doctor to have a benign growth cut off my leg, I've moved into the NEXT G with my phone and internet connection, so have had take delivery of them and nut all that stuff out and we had a lot of washing of things that only get washed occasionaly that needed doing before we moved North. It was nice to go out for yum cha on the Sunday morning with all the boys, Leah, nephew Tim, kurt and Holly and my ex Allan. We'd also taken Dan to a cheap Asian restaurant in North Bridge befor Mick arrived, so he asked to go back there with Mick before he left-it serves the best and cheapest duck soup you'd get in Perth I reckon.

We also like to do a big grocery shop when we are in a major town, so that was done on the Tuesday. Without realising it, it was senior's day for a 5% discount, double rewards points and there was huge meat discounts at the super IGA we had decided to visit-honestly it was like Christmas Eve and there was quite a lot of pushing and shoving at the meat counter as the pork came out!

Yesterday (May 9th) after saying our goodbyes, we headed off to Dongara. I felt so sad as we pulled away from the house as this is the first time in 12 months that we haven't left saying "we'll see you in x amount of months". I was quite teary at the thought of not knowing when we will see any of the boys and Leah again! Amazing when I checked the archives of the original blog to find May 9th was the day we drove out of Perth and headed North the year before-Russ reckons it must be a good Leaving Perth Day. It was nice to pull into the parke in Dongara and have the managers say "welcome back" (and no, they weren't at the computer whcih would probably tell them we were returning guests!!) This is the park they suggested we might like to manage next year 9and we have been considering that pretty seriously), but now he (manager Kevin) has bought himself a new Ford 250 truck thingy, that plan has been put back another year. So wwh knows where to for us after Darwin in August now.