Today we went to the museum. We also went koala spotting.

The museum:

Dad wanted to see some aboriginal art. He had found the Art museum on the Internet but we did not find it, but we only realized that after we were done and driving out. Instead we went to a museum called South Australia museum. There, they did have aboriginal things, but that was at the beginning. The rest was very much like animals. They had a giant squid that went up 4 whole stories (it was a mannequin, of course). Not the thing you want to meet in the wild. They also had at leas 100 different kinds of boomerangs and like 1,000 weapons. They had one hall that had wild animals from Europe to Africa and to well… many other places.

Koala spotting:

I wanted to see a koala, in the wild. I had carried a koala, in a wildlife habitat, but seeing one in the wild, that was something else. I finely figured out what it was, not many people look for them, so not many people do see them. We got to see 15, at least. Our favorite one, I spotted. There were three reasons why. One is we did not have to turn around, two there were no cars behind us so we could see it very well, and three, the best of all, it was STRAIGHT over out head. It was awesome.

So yes, a WONDERFUL day is what we had.

This page needs no comment,…. but I will do it anyway.  Now officially of the bucket list:  Sydney Bridge at midnight of the New Year!

The hours before (we reserved a nice dinner…)

and at midnight:

Nanne’s Christmas gift:  idyllic Island, bikes and sunshine!

Did about 40KM, and had time to play on the beach

Rottnest Island is off the coast of Perth.

Christmas day, it is official, Leendert is taller than Mom! Christmas diner is a blast!

O how fun it is at Oom Nanne’s – In Perth people go with Christmas hats to the beach for a swim,.. and a splash

A 2 hour aboriginal painting class arranged by Heidi. Great experience wonderful thing to do.  Afternoon was school work followed by the usual swim.

the Bilboa pool…

Today we got to go painting. Not just painting but painting like an aboriginal. We only had three colors. They each represented something. Yellow was sun, red was dirt and white was water.all turned out wonderfully beautiful and still look that way (even though dad had sprayed them to make them prettier and made them a foggy white), yes, the still look WONDERFUL.

We sailed to Snapper Island (beautiful) and no one but us.  We did the snorkelling, which had nice corals, but the water was a bit milky (we are soooo spoiled).

The brochure showed a nice sunset return… but Alicia had more fun!

 get dad wet! 

where it happened?

A regular working day in pictures (Alicia Focussed). School in the apartment, short exit to the pool, visit to the local wildlife habitat, Alicia Skyping with AIS  Vienna. BBQ in the evening. Nice and easy.

The rest of the family at the Habitat.