Swan Hill Region

Today the five of us headed up to the Swan Hill Region. We went to a Pioneer Village museum which is on the Murray River and the border to NSW. It's about a two hour drive from our house in Bendigo. The Pioneer Village was very interesting with people dressed in Pioneer costumes actually serving in some of the old fashioned shops. I took a photo of the blacksmith as he was making a minature horseshoe for Em and Tash. On the way home we stopped at Lake Boga which had a partly restored Catalina to look at. Swan Hill Township had a giant Murray Cod which we persuaded the kids to sit in it's mouth. Emily was a bit worried and squirmy and Rhys just refused. Here are the photos...

Melbourne Zoo

We took the very fast train to Melbourne yesterday to visit the zoo. We had to change trains at Southern Cross Station and catch a Met train to Royal Park Station where the zoo is situated. It was amazingly easy to find out about and to catch the second train. We only had to wait one minute.

The Zoo was great, It took us from 10.00am until about 3.30pm to explore the whole zoo and we still managed to miss seeing some animals and attractions. Highlights for us were the Orangatans posing for our photos, a baby monkey swinging around the jungle gym, a butterfly landing on Natasha's head and of course the Meerkats.

Lower points of the day were being dropped on by a seagull while having lunch and having to stand in the train on the way home for over an hour.

On the whole it was a great day and the kids slept very well last night.

Rainbow Magic Fairy Funday

Our two little fairies enjoyed funday at the library this morning. Here are the photos. You may be able to tell that Em's hair is shorter now.

Mission Impossible

Natasha performed in her school production tonight. She slid out of a helicopter and raced around the stage as part of the MI Team. She had some pretty cool dance moves.

The last photo is the teachers item. They did the Time Warp! The principal is the one in the pink Mohawk and Natasha's teacher has long blonde hair and a top hat in the background. All in all it was a great night's entertainment and Rhys enjoyed it as much as the adults. Hard to believe that Em will be up there with them next year.

Crazy Hair Day at Kindy

Emily enjoyed Crazy Hair day at Kinder today. They brought in Happy Meals from MacDonalds for all the kids and it was just a kids kinda day.

Rhy's big boy haircut

Rhys enjoyed having his haircut yesterday. The hairdresser gave him the squirty bottle to play with and he happily squirted his mirror the whole time.

Here's a photo of our grown up boy.

Dress ups and Mud Pies

What a lovely way to spend the morning! Natasha went to Eloise's place to play and it was so great that we all stayed. As we all know kids love mud.