Australia Day!

Australia Day! We went to the foreshore and watched the fireworks! Cale is a great little camera man and he went snap happy and took heapz of pics! We bought Cale a glow stick which he played 'swords' with :)

Swimming

See my boys playing on a hot summer afternoon! My water baby Cale loves swimming and he gets better and better all the time!

Jet Skiing

My lovely boyfriend Lance organised Jet Skiing... I was a bit scared and when Lance drove first, with me on the back... I was terrified every time he took a turn or accelerated, I thought we were going to tip and I was going to die! And I thought he would do something to scare me on purpose... I was hanging on for dear life! Anyway, Lance then let me drive for the rest of the time and it was so much better being in control! Lance was on the back and I went so fast... and Lance was scared! he he... we flew over the waves, it was such good fun. Now we both want a Jet Ski! Unfortunately we don't have the storage room at the moment :( O... and I got soooo burnt! It's so hot down south and I didn't realise how burnt I was until the evening... mad was I in pain! Lance put sunburn gel on me and took really good care of me though.

Underwater Observatory

We made it to the Observatory! It was amazing to see all the growth on the jetty posts, but there weren't that many different kinds of fish. Lance was a little disappointed... as he's been scuba diving and seen more... so it wasn't so special to him. But we still had fun. We bought some beautiful tile hangings for the bathroom at the gift store which made me happy :)

Busselton Jetty

Down the Jetty we went... swatting flies all the way!

Pedal Cars

We did not like the flies!!!! Lance got one in his ear and I ate one! Yuk!!!

Busselton Jetty & Underwater Observatory

Lance organised for us to visit the Underwater Observatory at the Busselton Jetty. It was quite busy so we ended up going to have breakfast at a nearby restaurant overlooking the beautiful beach.

We then hired a pedal car and went for a ride by the beach. Lance was quite surprised that I didn't try for the drivers seat (until he realised that he would be doing most of the work he he... no... only when he would try to be a race car driver - then I would put my feet up and let him go for it! No way I was getting any extra bruises from pedals hitting my shins!). Anyway, the flies were awful! We spent most of our time trying not to eat any! We picked ourselves some local fauna to use as fly deterrents (even the inspect repellants didn't work!) and kept our mouths shut. At one point I just lost it when I saw the look of determination on Lance's face as he was trying not to completely lose it with the flies - we both disolved into laughter at that point - I'm sure we looked a sight!

We then did the long walk down the jetty towards the observatory. We had an hour or two to wait before our tour, once we got to the end, so I amused myself by squashing flies with the tour map (Lance is much more patient than me)... Lance gave up trying to stop me after awhile and started taking pictures of me squashing the nasty little things (no... I will not be posting any of them:).

Other Holiday Activities

We also stopped at some vineyards with some nice wines. Then visited cheese factories and bought some tasty, well priced cheeses to take home (for the family to taste!). We stopped at the chocolate factory (Lance insisted... and I didn't argue!! :) and bought chocolates for our families... and us of course! We visited the icecreamery and tasted some delicious icecreams too.

We also stopped at a beautiful craft shop and bought some lovely crafts including a jarrah wine bottle stopper (has been very useful) and some homemade jams (Lance's favourite is strawberry) etc.

Lance organised horseriding!!! Even though he wasn't too keen on it, he did it for me! Isn't he lovely? Anyway we went on a trail ride (he went with the beginners and I went with advanced). Was fun except for the fact that I was stuck behind a pony who wouldn't canter very fast and spent all my time holding my beautiful horse back (who just wanted to run wild and scrape me against every tree in sight - it did succeed a few times!). We returned absolutely covered in dust - but it was worth it. I think next time we have to organise a ride with just the two of us (if Lance can handle going again - I don't think it's his favourite sport :).

Caving

Lance organised caving! It was soooo cool! Just amazing to see such a natural work of art... so incredible. The air actually gets quite thin down in the cave. The cave was lit throughout with steep stairways cut into the rock... and we weren't allowed to touch anything! Human touch kills the stalictite formations (geeze I sound so technical! :)

More amazing caving pics

New Year's Eve

I guess I couldn't take my drinks very well - we went to a few parties and someone (Lance) poured my drinks too strong - I ended up falling asleep in our friends spare room. Oops! Lesson learnt! Pour own drinks in future!