Cyclones and Christmas

I have had a brilliant Christmas. It's a wonder that Santa didn't break our balcony when he landed on it with all the weight of my pressies. I got so many presents including a skateboard, football, magic set, games for the pool, books, games, cricket set, remote control cars, transformers and the Wonkey Donkey book and CD. Plus we had so much food. My favourite was the sticky date pudding mum made. Mum and Dad agreed and it's all gone. I am still trying to master the sketeboard and dad took lots of photos and videos of my many attempts. Dad reckons I'm pretty good but I still need to do some work before I can go to the Skateboard Park.

Mum and dad had a great time too. Although I am not sure what dad was doing running running around so much on Christmas Eve, He said it was something to do with the cyclone. He should have listened to me as there was no way that Santa would have allowed a cyclone to hit us. I was right and Cyclone Grant was a complete fizzer as far as we were concerned. Now Dad's grumpy as he has to undo his cyclone clean up and empty the shed again. Meanwhile I'll stay out of his way and practice my skateboarding

Bigger Holiday

We all went to Canberra. I had bucket loads of fun over the four days we were there. We did not stop. We arrived on Friday night in the pouring and cold rain for a wedding the next day. Meredith who made my a crown collage for my christening got married to Paul. Fortunately the rain stopped and they were able to get married on their property just outside Canberra. Paul growns wine grapes so it was a perfect place to have a merry time. The best bit of the wedding was catching yabbies in the dams.
The next day we caught up with my aunites (Lyn and Judy) and cousins (Kirsty and Mitch) plus lots of my family who I hadn't see for ages. We had a great time in the hotel swimming pool although it took half an hour before dad got in - said it was too cold - wooss. We then went back out to the property where the wedding was and caught more yabbies.
On Monday, dad and I went to Questacon which is a science museum. It was brilliant. We saw the lightling machine, stood in the earthquake house and did all sorts of experiments. I even got to drive a space rocket. The best bit was the roller-coaster simulator which we went on twice. Dad said the scariest bit was the guilotile simulator - I didn't go on that one.
We also caught up with Marianne, Dan and Luke that night and I played hide and seek in the cupboards.
On Tuesday we went and bought christmas decorations from a barn outside Canberra. It was brilliant. Mum thought so too as she won't tell dad how much she spent. We then caught up with even more friends - Mark and Jennifer and Noah and Riley, who I used to play with when I was a kid.
Anyway, we're back home now and I am off to school today. Mum and dad don't want to go back to work but they need to make money so we can have holidays more often.