Archive for November, 2015

Kangaroo Island – day 3

Posted: 26th November 2015 by Bethany in Uncategorized

Our third day we drove to Flinders National Park at the far south west end of the island. We stopped at the visitors centre and as soon as we got out of the car, spotted a koala in a tree! We spent some time at the visitors centre, which had the best geological display of […]

Kangaroo Island – day 2

Posted: 25th November 2015 by Bethany in Uncategorized

The next day we headed to Seal Bay where we paid to walk through the conservation area, onto the sand where the sea lions were lounging about. It was well worth the fee to be so close to one of the largest colonies of sea lions, approximately 1,000 in total. Apparently people could walk this […]

Kangaroo Island – day 1

Posted: 24th November 2015 by Bethany in Uncategorized

Our darling family finally made a long awaited trip to kangaroo island. South Australia. We had planned to go last year but as it’s so challenging to get there we cancelled our trip. This time we were fully prepared for the 1 hour flight to Adelaide, 1.5 hour drive to Cape Jervis and 1 hour […]

Chess awards – oh my!

Posted: 24th November 2015 by Bethany in Uncategorized

Tomas has 27 chess awards that I could find around the house. He traded in 20 for a trophy.

Christmas dinnertime already!

Posted: 24th November 2015 by Bethany in Uncategorized

Our first holiday dinner of the season with dear friends – we’ve spent at least part of the Christmas holidays with these lovely folks every year since we arrived in Sydney.

Crazy storm hits

Posted: 24th November 2015 by Bethany in Uncategorized

View from Bondi Beach

Ninja vs Jedi

Posted: 24th November 2015 by Bethany in Uncategorized

Ethan @ school orientation

Posted: 24th November 2015 by Bethany in Uncategorized

All kitted out in his school gear – yup, I think he’s ready to start!

Spooky Halloween Trick or Treatets

Posted: 2nd November 2015 by Bethany in Uncategorized

We were thrilled to see so many trick or treaters this Halloween!! Our neighborhood was hopping with ghosts and ghouls and these two: A vampire and Dementor from Harry Potter.

Ethan turns 5!

Posted: 1st November 2015 by Bethany in Uncategorized

This year we had a Halloween birthday party as one of Ethan’s mates has the same birthday and had already booked his party in Nov 1. We were pretty excited to host a Halloween party tho …this being one of our favourite holidays. So we made a haunted house in the granny flat and had […]