We discovered on Friday afternoon that our broken little camera was fixed after being told it could take anything from 1 minute to 10 working days to complete (well you wouldn't want a straight answer would you?) We got up early, burned rubber to Midland station, walked the now familiar route to Barhams Electronics, paid a kidney and collected the now super fixed up TZ6.
To make sure that our trip wasn't 100% camera related, we did some final "Chrissie" shopping (Australian's love to stick an "ie" on the end of everything) and even managed a quick whip around the Perth Art Museum. They had some really good Western Australian and Aboriginal Art in there so it was well worth the visit.
We got back to Peter and Jenny's house for lunch and I sorted out the remaining New Zealand North Island trip stuff. A few phone calls here, a few VISA payments there... Ame, meanwhile, helped to prepare for the extended family BBQ that was about to take place.
Jenny's Cousin Karen also moved to Australia back in the day with husband David and they have all remained close over the years in Oz. Karen and David came along to the BBQ with their two children Beth and Darren (and his girlfriend Lisa) and of course Anna and Kevin turned up for the festivities. It took us a while to establish the correct term for how they are all related but then Peter looked it up and confirmed that beth and Dareen are Amy, Kevin and Anna's second cousins. It was all very pleasant and we had some good chuckles. It was interesting to meet Ame's blood relatives and see shades of similarity amongst them all...
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