Kings Perth

... I had a quick shower then headed off to dinner. It was there I hit massive traffic again because for some reason, the driver decided to take me via the Nairobi showgrounds... as it was finishing for the day and all the cars were leaving. But again, I finally made it and we had a nice little fairwell dinner.
The next day I woke up for breakfast with the Giraffes. I fed Kelly and Barney through the windows of the Sun Room before later heading out and meeting Laura and ...

From Bangkok we then flew to Perth -our last stopto visit Noah’s great grandpa who has turned 100yrs old this year and we have also visited friends of ours Veronika & Nick who have moved to Perth 2 years ago so we came to check up on them. We even managed to squeeze in dinner with Noah's cousin Alicia which was great and nice to catch up after a while. It was really nice to ...

... suburbs of the city, it was not long before we were passing though the vineyards of the Swan River Valley, with their unusual Y shaped support structures, together with an historical cricket ground; allegedly the first venue for English touring teams when playing in Western Australia – something to do with its vicinity to the wine. Hard to believe that this would have been important to Gower, Gatting, Lamb or Botham!

Our ...

... got it towed and the mechanic said to come back in an hour to tell us the damage, so off we went with our packed lunch down to the river, did a spot of sunbathing, went for a walk....to be honest there are worse places to break down :-) But the news was bad and the car had gone to car heaven may it RIP. So we had to wait for another five hours before we could be towed all the way back to Perth. So off we went again, this time down to the river...got some beers ...

... seat belt off, lift all the arm rests, pile up four pillows under my head, four balnkets on top of me, stretch out and pretend I had a flat bed in first class. DING! I was off, arm rest up! Pillows down! Blankets on! Remote for the screen in hand, stretch those legs ou...hang on... where the hell did you come from? In the 10 seconds it took me to do all of that some guy had decided to move seats and sit at the end of my 4 seat row. WHAT????? now ...

Hi Everyone, Had a good journey on the plane and have been very tired because it's night here when it's day there. We went to the beach and went in the sea there was a music concert on the beach, i got covered in sand, my cousin Dean buried me. Its very very hot here, we have to keep putting suncream on. Got to go to bed now so G'day Brodie x

... sassen wir zum sonnenuntergang am swanriver und hatten das glueck , einen delfin zu sehen, abgesehen von den hunderten kreischender papageien, lorikeets und moewen. am mittwoch war rottnest island angesagt. wir fuhern mit dem boot zuerst den swanriver entlang und dann hinaus aufs meer zur kleinen insel. wir mieteten ein fahrrad und fuhren 25 km ueber die insel. sie ist autofrei, mit strassen die auf und ab durch herrliche duenen, vorbei am kleinen ...

... Christmas dinner that we have ever had (sorry mums!) all washed down nicely with champagne which Scott brought, then dropped in the car park but amazingly all three bottles bounced! Much hilarity ensued after dinner with lots of silly toys and games (but which surprisingly kept us amused for hours!) We really had such an amazing Christmas (complete with stockings on our doors - thanks Aunty Anne!) and it was thanks to the four of you for making us feel so welcome ...

... seeing stuff now we know we are heading away and I still haven't seen some of the obvious stuff like Rottness Island. We have been hanging around more with some people from John work and getting in drinking training again for the trip
. . . . . . . two weeks and counting :D :D :D

Oh! I forgot to mention for the road trip we have bought a kick ass VW pop top transporter campervan . . .its going to be awsome!