Best Birthday Ever!!!

Dad said he was lucky to get an ice-cream on the beach front at Exmouth, where ever that is, for his birthday.  He's also reached that age where he's starting to reflect on life and keeps muttering something like 'in my day, I never went to Bali for my birthday.' 

Anyway, enough of him, cause I have just got back from Bali, which is the best place ever!! We went for just four days, but we all wished we could have stayed longer.

Mum and dad wanted to spend the time with me, but I insisted on going to the Kid's Club each day.  Don't know what mum and dad did and don't care as I had the best time ever!!

Kid's Club

I got up to up to so many things like catching frogs for a frog race and searching the hotel gardens for plants to make Bali offerings.  BUT, the best thing was the water park and the fast green slide.  It was the best ever!! Mum and dad kept picking me up too soon, so I had to keep telling them to come back later.

The rooms were brilliant and each day the people who made our room up made animal scultures from the towels.  Ours made elephants and dogs (siting and laying).  We also had Bali dancing one night and I got to dance with them.  Dad said they were scary dancers but I thought they were great.

The fast green slide

Did I mention the fast green slide.....

Excited or what!

Cool towel elephant

Dad's scary dancer

I am already planning my next birthday trip back to Bali.

Salamat Tinggal

My first football game

After weeks of hard training (Well, one hour a week on Wednesday afternoons for the last month) I finally ran out onto the Field of Glory - otherwise known as Malak Oval. I nearly scored two goals, but was denied by not being able to use my left boot on one occassion and my enthusiasm to keep runnng in a straight line, even though the goal wasn't there on the other.

I think Dad is really mean to say that 'we looked like a flock of seagulls chasing a chip.'  Secretly, I think mum and dad were really proud of me.

We played the Italian team Azuri University this morning and no-one can remember the result, mum says it was 1-1 but dad said it was 2-1 to the other side.  Either way it was great fun for mum and dad as well as me and our team, the mighty Casuarina Rowdies.

Possum Magic

We have all had sleepless nights recently because a possum has adopted us. It has been running up and down the balcony in the middle of the night and it's made it's home in a gap in a wall outside. Yesterday dad had enough and borrowed a trap from Sandy and Greg and I helped dad set it with an apple. Within half an hour we had our possum. Dad woke me up very early to tell me we had trapped it.

I went and gave it some food (carrots and apples) before putting it in the back of dad's car and taking it for a ride to nearby bushland.

We gave it some more food before releasing it to it's new home. We will all sleep sound tonight, except possibly the possum.

Finally, a Donkey (and an Emu)!

Hurray. I finally got to meet my favourite animal - a donkey. Mum has a friend who owns a property just outside Darwin with hundreds of cattle, two dogs, a donkey and an emu. We called in on the way back from Lake Bennett where we spent the last four days.

I am still on school holidays so dad took the week off and we all went away on a mini break. I had a brilliant time playing golf (with dad), mini golf, riding my bike, swimming in the lake, canoeing, walking and playing games with mum and dad. Dad's going back to work tomorrow for a well deserved rest.

Also my friends Tayla and Jayden from Adelaide arrived in Darwin and came down to Lake Bennett.

But the best bit was the Donkey!

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.

Mini Holiday

I've been on school holidays this week. Dad took some time off as well and we all went down to Lake Bennett for a couple of days. We hired a cabin on the lake which was brilliant. It even had canoes which mum, dad and I went in for a paddle around the lake. Dad said he was tired after the fourth go but that's because no-one else was paddling. On Saturday, Greg and Sandy came down. We all went for a swim in the lake. I was the furthest out as dad said I would make good croc bait, whatever that is. Sandy and mum looked after me while Greg and dad put plastic chairs in the lake so they could sit and drink beer at the same time. Dad said he should patent the idea.