A "Perth"ect time

Saturday, Sunday, Monday

After our previously lazy time we were well rested for our quick flight over to Perth today.   We'd booked an 8.30 taxi to get to the station and were sharing it with our friend Dan from the Rock Tour.  So we thought everything was under control until it didn't turn up.  When I called him to check he said he'd been drunk last night when I'd called him and though he was coming at 9.30, great!  but he came straight away and there was still good time to check in.

In fact there was more than good time, we had an extra three hours to check in as that is how delayed we were! But there was free wifi so Rob got tons of jobs done and I wrote some post cards and we were given a free coffee so we were quite happy.  I took a nice picture of this Aboriginal mosaic in the airport.  It killed a bit of time... The only thing was that after being patient there I found the flight dragged a bit.

But eventually we were in Perth airport and all was well, although the sniffer dog did take my honey which I'd brought as a pressy for my aunt.  It was very exciting because not only did my aunt and uncle come to meet us but also my cousins Anna and Kevin.

We all went back to Peter and Jenny's House and had lunch.  It was lovely to see the house after to seeing photos in the past 10 years.  As our flight had made everything a little later than expected, we went with Anna and Kevin to help prepare for their BBQ they were having at their house (well in fact we didn't help a great deal - it all seemed very much in order).  Here we met the other member of the family:  Oscar.  He's more like a horse than a dog but thinks he is about 1 foot tall!  Very entertaining.  The BBQ was really fun and we met a lot of A+K's friends.  However, we were pretty knackered so we went home with Pete and Jenny around 11pm.

The next day we got up had breakfast outside and just talked to my uncle and aunt which then turned into lunch!  It was lovely to feel we had all the time in the world.  In the late afternoon, one of their friends said we could use their pool, so we wandered down there for a little splash.  It was hot that day.  When we got home Rob and I cooked and we all watched Angel and Demons (Rob says: what on earth was that helicopter bit about???!) and then we were bed bound.

On Monday, we got up relatively early (8am) and went into Perth on the train from Midland.  We have discovered we have scratched our camera lens a little and a gray line is showing up on a few of our sunny photos.  We found somewhere in Perth to get advice on it and hopefully we'll be ordering a part and somewhere along our nomadic life we'll manage to fix it.  After that we had a really good wander around Perth centre and went to Kings Park.  This had lovely views of the city and the lagoon.  Later, we were back at the house and making salad dinner for our lovely hosts.  It's been a relaxing couple of days which have been great after the pace of the East Coast and Centre...