Bed, Road trip and Hens night

After nearly 20 years of cheap crappy furniture and an over cluttered bedroom we came to an agreement with Sarah to declutter and she may get some new furniture. So slowly it was done and with a spare queen size mattress sitting around we went and purchased a new bedroom set for her to accomodate the mattress. It took Peter 2 nights and many hours putting bits together... 

 But we eventually got there and with some new manchester Sarah was more than happy with the end result...

 She has since bought a nice new black lamp,more cushions and had some black and white photos developed of her travels to put on the walls.
We took "George" out for another run - over to Busselton but this time we went down via Nannup. Their annual Tulip festival had been on a few weeks before and luckily much of the display were still in bloom...

I also had a quick look in the quilt and craft shop...

 Then we headed to Busselton...

Met up with Janelle and had afternoon tea with Mum and Dad J...

 Nicole is a bridesmaid again in October - this time for another school friend Chelsea. So she has been busy organising another Hen's night. The theme was AFL...

Cupcakes made by Nicole

Danika and Nicole

Bride-to-be and her bridesmaids

 The had a nice looking stripper but he liked to keep his pants on for any photos...

Sarah has a new friend in her life named Nathan. He is a chef and has taken her on some lovely dates and likes to buy her flowers... 

 I have been entertained in the garden watching these busy birds built a nest for their babies, catch food and recently the babies ventured out learning to fly...

Mud, Footy and Markets

Nicole and Janelle went to Perth and teamed up with Danika and Jacob to participate in Mud Rush. This was held at the state equestrian center and was a course of 9km of obstacles, tunnels, climbing walls and MUD. They all had a great time getting filthy and testing their personal strengths and fears. Unfortunately they couldn't take their cameras on the the course so we just have before and after shots...

 Nicole and Janelle after a quick cold shower with their complimentary T-shirts...

We were also in Perth as Peter had won tickets to an Eagles  match and a nights accomodation. It was a terrible game with the Eagles being thrashed by Geelong. We got to witness their lowest ever score at Subi oval!

 We had good seats...

 But this was our view for most of the game...

 A lot of the die hard Eagles supporters left at three quarter time but we stayed to the end...

 We caught the train back to the city and then walked to our motel - love how they have lit up Council House with the lights changing to all sorts of colour combinations every few seconds...

The next morning we went to the 3 in 1 Polka Dot vintage markets at the showgrounds. There were over 300 stalls of all sorts of goodness there and we didn't even get to see all the stalls...

We picked up Nicole from Danikas and drove home.

Our little doggies also turned 9 this weekend (we didn't have a number 9 so its 8 + 1)...

 Lucy wasn't too enthused and knocked her candles over...

Mildred

For many years now we have been looking at caravans and well just waiting for the "right" time to make that purchase. Our first step was to buy a vehicle that would be suitable to tow a good travelling van. So we got the Colorado. Friends asked us what we were going to name our new 4WD and we tossed a few names around and couldn't decide on one. So we decided that as its colour is Royal Grey and we got it in July we would wait and see what William and Kate would name their  new royal baby also due in July. We had to wait until July 22nd but "George" it is! Anyway back to the caravan - Peter was flicking through various sites in the Ipad and came across  a cute little 1960's Newlands 10ft vintage do-me-upper. I have always loved looking at the cute vintage caravans on various blogs and sites and here was one for sale and in our home town as well!!!! So we phoned the owner and Sarah and I went and had a look. We had to look past the dirt and leaking roof to see some very cute potential. Peter and I went back the next day...

We went away and thought about it for a day knowing there were other people interested and in the end decided "why not"! So now Peter has a small hobby to occupy him on his LSL next year. He also decided to name her "Mildred" to go with his George...

SOLD to us!!!

Our next problem was how to get her home. She is unlicenced and has no back lights so we arranged for a permit to move her the 4kms home. We hooked her up to the Commodore - didnt quite need the Colorado for this - and I followed Peter home very closely on our planned route. He even took her over some speed humps - I was waiting for the whole thing to fall to bits on a busy road. But we made it and now she sits on the back lawn waiting for her makeover...

I got to work and started cleaning some of the dirt out so we could at least sit on the seats...

It was fun going through all the nooks and crannys - a few finds that made my day were...a teeny plug for the sink...

One silver egg cup...

Left just for us

A rusty old key which to my delight fitted the wardrobe so we could lock it and also open the other side which revealed a mirror...

We were very brave and plugged the power and very happy when the light worked so we decided to celebrate with a mini bottle of wine (thanks Qantas) in our mini van...

And our final discovery of the day is that the clock still works - you just have to put your hand in the cupboard and wind it up!...

So there she is. We can't wait to start pulling her apart and have been preparing ourselves for all sorts of nasty surprises that she may be hiding. It will be a while before we get a good go at her when Peter gets some time off work but for now we just enjoy sitting and contemplating.  So many questions we will never know the answers to - we have grand plans for her!

PS for those people reading this who think we have gone mad - she is a hobby - and that nice big off-roader we talk about will one day be hooked up to George :-)