Ok, so its been two weeks since I blogged and especially since putting up a photo of the day. I have two very good excuses. The first week was the craziest week I’ve had in a long time, preparation for my parents visiting, appointments and general mad rushing around. The second week we’ve been away and got back properly last night.
My parents are visiting from over east and will be here for a little while. They arrived Friday a week (and a bit) ago and the next day we took off to Cunderdin. We used to go there a lot when I was growing up but it had been 15 years since I’d visited the Smarts farm so it was great to return. We took K out of school for four days so we could all go and I’m glad. The girls had a great time and Miss K is such an outdoorsy kid that she got herself attached to Milly the dog. Usually she’s afraid of them but this dog has such a beautiful nature. Here she is:
Going anthill hunting….so dry there!
We got to ride on the back of the ute to feed the sheep, go hunting for an ants nest and play on some huge tyre inner tubes. After a couple of days we were off to Mukinbudin/Wialki to visit an old family friend.
Hanging up the washing with fly nets on
We used to visit Muka when I was a kid and it was so nice to visit again. There is something refreshing about going to the country, even if it was very dry and dusty (and there were plenty of flies this time). I am always amazed at the quietness, darkness and brightness of the stars when in the wheatbelt. Just beautiful.
At Wialki we spent time relaxing, doing nothing, taking photos, walking around the property and Miss K got to help fill the sheep’s water trough (and clean it). It actually rained and was quite cool on the last day which was a nice change. With nothing to break up the landscape, the clouds seem to go on forever!
What usually is a three and a half hour drive back to Perth took us about six hours with kids but that was ok. We came home again via Wyalkatchem and Toodjay.
We had one day in-between before we were off again to the Perth Keswick Autum Convention where we camped in for the first time as a family. Michael and I used to do that a bit before kids but I’ve been waiting till we’re past the pram/cot stage to do it with the girls.
This is at the Convention, Miss K is on stage with the other kids as they did an item before the main speaker came up.
We really enjoyed ourselves, Miss K had a great time with the kids in their own little meetings and we enjoyed the speaker. Little L got to have her first ever horse ride (they have free horse rides and face painting on the Sunday afternoon) and I now have piles and piles of washing to do! It was worth it though. So, here we are, home again and not too tired (well, the girls were a bit). Phew!
