Happenings

On January 3rd Peter and I went up to Perth to celebrate one of Peter's customers Mother's 90th birthday.

We bought her this lovely bunch of flowers...

It was a big celebration with about 140 people in the entire Friends Restaurant at the Hyatt.

Plenty of entertainment had been organised which included the band Top Shelf, Absolutely Kylie (complete with feathers and dancers), A Dusty Springfield impersonator and Elvis himself.

It was a good night complete with a few Chinese traditions (Mama Alice) is Chinese.

Dad gave us some money for Christmas and we have heard so much about Julie's fantastic chips she makes in their new deep fryer so we decided to purchase one. Peter decided the time was right on Saturday night to have a go at making fish and chips.

I was at work so I missed the chip cooking but apparently they were a lot "better" when they first came out of the fryer! The first batch of fish was very "crunchy" but we are pleased to say that the 2nd attempt at the fish was quite successful. With all the cleaning up that goes along with the process $5 worth of chips from down the road seems a lot easier! But we will persist.

Nicole loves going to the gym and doing "attack" classes. Unfortunately she is now suffering from shin splints from doing so much. Anyway she has been busy at home and found the music they use at the gym and putting the routine together as if she was the instructor. Yesterday she bought it over here and "taught" Janelle and Sarah. They videoed themselves and I think Nicole could have a new profession!

Peter has been busy still tidying up around the spa. He put up some shade cloth to protect the cover from the sun and block out some wind. All was going well with the spa until he decided to take the panels off and have an inspection inside and found it has been leaking. We worked out the area around the light was where the water was coming from. So now we have to drain it and have a new light put in.

Thats Janelle having a little dip.

We have finally made the decision to go on a big holiday this year and booked our tickets to London on the 24th June, then onto Paris, Nice and Italy. Nicole has booked her tickets to Athens to later join us in Paris. How exciting (and nervous!)