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| And the cutest little girl where the skirt I made her, on my chair, about to fall asleep. |
Alright, so to kick-start this blog
post, I will tell you of a little conversation Chloe and I had a
while ago. It has since been circulated through the whole family,
with the end result being the listener cracking up and Chloe hiding her
head and being embarrassed.
So, the conversation......
I was sitting on the bed and
questioning Chloe on where all her body parts were. She exclaims “I
know where my heart is, where my brain is, and where my soul is”. I
of course say “Where is your soul Chloe?”.
She goes “On the bottom of your foot
of course!”
That really cracked me up, and then I
had to explain to Chloe why I was laughing. The way she said “brain,
heart and soul”, did not get me thinking of the bottom of my foot
sole!!
So I have had a long absence from the
blog (hence the funny conversation to start it all off, just to make
sure you were keeping track on some of the stuff that had been going
on) and now will chronicle our adventures from Geraldton down to
Rockingham (where I am writing this).
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| Pretty nice sunset hey? |
So we will start off at Jurien Bay
where we had to wait round for 3 days before we could move down to
Perth. We were hoping to stay at Sandy Cape camping area, but we arrived smack bang in the middle of a long weekend and it was full.
Thus, we had to stay at the overflow camping, which turned out to be
the cheapest option.
As we pulled up, we were amazed to
watch as skydivers swooshed in above us, landing at the oval which we
were camping next to. Joel and I then recalled that over the long
weekend they were going to try to break the world record for
formation skydiving. It looked like we were in for a weekend of
skydivers!!
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| Nice pink clouds, and the community centre where the showers and toilets were. |
The overflow camping was actually
pretty reasonable at $31/n for toilets and showers. It was
definitely the cheapest option for the facilities. We pulled up there
on the Saturday, so the next day was Sunday.
In regard to the skydivers, we actually
did see a formation jump on Saturday, which we all saw. It was pretty
cool to watch the skydivers jump out of the plane, like the plane was
scattering big pieces of paper. They then formed up into a five-point
star (well, I'm pretty sure about that shape) and free fell before breaking
up. They then came swooshing in over the caravan to land on the oval.
They come in mighty fast!!
In the night they also skydived. With
the big floodlight on the oval, they came swooping in (only 4 insane
enough to go) at an amazing rate. It was fun to watch them come down,
as you could only tell where they were by the blinking lights they
held.
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| Swinging in to land on the oval |
We
also got front row seats to the footy (technically AFL), and
altogether watched 2 and 3-quarter games. We had to leave in the last
quarter of the last game to go to church, which was at 4pm. Of
course, it wasn't on and we missed church for that Sunday.
Trust
me, it's happened quite a few times!!
But
the little girls had made some friends still, and they were having
fun in the long jump pit playing in the sand. They
also had a kick around with the footy, before the big kids came over
and then an all-out match developed.
The
sides were Joel versus everyone else (Namely Chloe, her two friends,
and I). The score started pretty even, but soon Joel started to pull
ahead slowly and surely.
Did
I mention, I can't kick a ball to save my life? No, probably not. At
least one of Chloe's friends was an AFL player and could kick pretty
well. I can't handball either, just throw it. I don't know how much
use I was apart from yelling some encouragement................
After
managing to get some sleep finally, I woke up at exactly 5:05 am,
to find the music from up at the community centre still playing. It
had played all night!!
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| Landing Time |
P.S Don't you just looove my alliterations?? Come back tomorrow, or the next day, or the next day, for more. Just covering myself in case I'm busy!!
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