Guess who is excited!!!
ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Back story first. - Went to the library the other day to return some books, as i was - ahem - overdue, that's ok, we hadn't got to most of them because of Grandma Robyn's visit and i can reborrow, right?
So Monday morning (remember Sophie was off colour today) we lugged our +/- 70ish books back to the library (Jamie did the heavy lifting heh heh) and waiting, waiting, waiting in line "
no dear, i'm not selecting more today, i'll just re-borrow some and pick up the reserves" waiting, waiting, waiting some more. We are finally served and having previously returned 50 odd books through the chute on entering the libray asked to reborrow the ones i had left
"sure no problem," says the librarian.
Uh oh problem, all the cards that were swiped were full and overdue, so another 5 minutes were gone sorting thrrough which had been returned or were still at home. thats ok easy, now lets re-borrow these - cool!.........no, not so cool :( out of the 15-20 books we wanted to re-borrow, we came home with about 5! Two of which, to Samuel's dismay were the wrong ones! it seems we had some popular titles as they had all been put on reserve :( and were not available for me to take home again. Aww mannn! i had plans for them!
So my question could be, Is it wrong of me to perhaps next time borrow an awesome book, and then reserve it again and again, alternating each of our six library cards? Sure i'd have to take it back every 3 weeks, but i could do it.......Right? I guess if i have to ask, it just probaly isn't right LOL
So that was about 20mins gone! - and as most of you know us, Jamie doesn't tend to have the most patience for the boring and mundane....or very slow!
OH CRAP!!! i've just spent the last 20 mins (i'm a slow typer ok!) writing all that and i've come to the realisation, that it has absolutely NOTHING to do with why i'm excited!! D'oh! oh ok it has to do with the library - but that's it . Ha Ha Ha - i couldn't bear to delete - it
was 20 mins after all!
So why am i excited then?? Well, while at the library again, we borrowed a tonne of DVD's, one of which was "
Sculpture by the Sea - the 10th anniversary"
We, ok me, I have been feeling a bit 'arty' at the moment, and thought i'd try introduce some ideas to the children. Dvd was a big hit ( i was a bit annoyed by the "children's short film" included - bah!)
So talking to Daddy about it that night and - bless his heart :} - what does he tell us?
"that's on at the moment!? it's been all over the radio"
SO COOL! How is THAT for timing!!! - i swear my guy knows more about whats going on in Perth then I do! and he's half a state away!?! And right he is!
March 3 - 22 "Sculpture by the Sea - Cottesloe Beach" here we come!!
On another awesome note, guess what we have discovered!!!
This place was so cool!! it was where we met for our last homeschool group on Friday, except we met around the 'corner' at a smaller quieter beach. It's Hillarys Boat Harbour (Hillarys is a suburb) Its a cross between
Sugarworld and
Southbank and a touch of sideshow alley? to the left behind the trees they have awesome waterslides, a huge rope climbing course and rockwall and trampolines and kiddy chair swings and, and , and ,and everything!! it's called
the great escape and then they have that awesome free SHADED playground (a rarity in WA??) on the 'beach'. TOTALLY WICKED!!!! :)
But like i said we were 'around the corner' in a little bay, the water was about knee deep for a good 10-15m and only gradually got deeper i think about 50m out before Samuel was chest deep??
But get this.... it's a BOAT HARBOUR!?!?!? to the right is a huge long jetty/wharf? separating the swimmers and the boats, but the water is sooooo clear!! so clear in fact that we spotted this, yeah ok it was in shin deep water, but still!
JELLYFISH!! :)
We think it was dead. I'm pretty sure it would have been after Samuel kept throwing sand on it to see if it was dead!! -ugh! boys ;)
Well Karma got him back, because when we were at the big beach he thinks he was stung there. he says he spotted 5 jellies + the one that got him + a crab + 100's of tiny little translucent fishies darting here and there. I spotted a couple (maybe same?) fish jumping about out of the water here and there. Apparently jellyfish have been pretty common this summer because of the extra heat or something, with lots of people being stung. Well thank goodness we aren't in QLD as it could have been a LOT worse - but then again in QLD they wouldn't have been in the water at the beach! Samuel has vowed NEVER to go into the ocean again! we'l see how long THAT lasts LOL.
a BIG
Happy Birthday xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo to my handsome hubby mwah!
Sadly he is over 1500 kms away at work for another 3 weeks :( but we did get to skype and chat on the phonea couple times :)
Darn it was just trying to upload a photo of my handsome hubby , but blogger won't let me :(
So on that note i shall depart, and go and properly watch my fav. show.
OX(OX)oxoxoxoxox
B(J)slkcs
