Holiday at Parkes

John, granma and granpa and I are up at the Parkes telescope this week which is good fun. I am observing at night, and John is entertaining granma and granpa during the day! John is having a lovely time running around in the open spaces, and stomping up and down on the wooden floor boards. He is very spotty though, a little bug attacked him and ran all over his face leaving a trail of bite marks! Tomorrow granma, granpa and john are off to the dubbo zoo - sounds like fun!

Swimming starts...

John had his first swimming lesson on friday night, it was great! He is in a class with one other girl, and they are so cute! Both with their little swimming caps and goggles. John was slightly tentative to begin with, but by the end of the 1/2 hour class was trusting the teacher and he and the other girl practiced dog paddle while floating on top of a large floaty mat thing. We chatted with the mother of the little girl, I don't know if she appreciated the wit of dicky and I calculating whether John would be old enough to make it to the london olympics!

Liz and the kids down for the weekend

Liz, Lachie and Holly came down to visit for the weekend which was great, if not totally exhausting! We took the kids out for tea on friday night to Taco Bills - lovely food, but John and Lachie were more interested in looking out the window and taking all the take-away menus from their holder and running around with them! Decided eat-in was definately the go for saturday night...
We went to the botanical gardens on saturday, it was a beautiful day and the kids just ran and ran non stop. We went to the childrens garden too, which has lots of touchy-feely things for kids. We walked back to southgate for lunch, and ran into my cousin Kim who we haven't seen for over 5 years! Very bizaar, hopefully we'll catch up with her again soon. After lunch we caught the train back to Hawthorn, and had a quick play in rocket park before coming home, the kids were a bit cranky and exhausted.
On sunday we just went to rocket park for an hour or so, the kids were still exhausted. Liz left around lunch time, and John was pretty tired all afternoon, but didn't go to sleep till 7:30pm.
The photos here are from the botanic gardens....