Life Cycles

This is my life for a week:

I got about a week's notice that we are moving next Thursday. I have to pack up a four bedroom/two bathroom/lounge AND family room house within a week, then fit it into a two bedroom cottage. I'm not feeling very hopeful about doing any of that. Good luck to me!

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This is Liam and his chick egg from America (EJ has an alien egg which he hasn't hatched yet). The idea is to put it in water and it will hatch, and as long as it's in water, the chick will continue to grow. He opened it and promptly dropped it, and I'm not sure if it was the egg or his little pitty patty heart that I heard breaking as the egg hit the floor :o( . The chick was exposed and Liam cried a bit but we positioned it in the water so you can't tell the egg is broken on one side. Luckily, as the chick absorbed water and grew, it still "hatched" from what was left of the egg. Here are photos from days 1 to 5:

Today's little adventure ...

Swimming lessons, wash hair, bathers, towels, other washing, tidying, lunch, then the little adventure ... was to go to the creek and cross it on "stepping stones" and throw other stones into it. It's the middle of winter - check out how deep the water isn't!

More Darwin Pics

Bride and bridesmaid (father of the bride on the left and photographer on the right). One of my boys took this pic:
EJ shakin' his booty with the groom:

The jumping pillow; if you look closely you can see both boys:

Coconuts living in a tree near the resort's amenities block (prolly perving on the ladies in the showers, that's why coconuts have those funny faces):

Liam emerging:

At the NT Wildlife Park:

"I is having a staring competition with the cap." :

"Humph. They is lights, not eyes. I has been tricked. Ya Rly." :

Liam illustrating what the sign says:
Flutterby artistically photgraphed by me :oD :

Three seahorses in the aquarium (yes, THREE):
OK, the Park photos are finished. This is a road train, lots went past the resort all the time:


And this is our plane in Brisbane. Factories in the distance; one chimney just to the left of the plane's tail has a flame coming out:



More pics below, in next post ....

A few Darwin pics

After some minor dramas*, we are back now. Here are "a few" selected pics that I couldn't upload up there.

The cabin:
The waterfall in the lagoon pool, which is the largest of the three pools:


Little lady jumping for her meal. There are about 50 lady crocs in this lake at Crocodylus Park:


Stupid 50-cent-brain forgot to shut it's mouth:


Holding the baby croc:


This monkey wasn't mooning until we got there, then he (yes, it's a he :o| ) pointed his backside at us and sat there for ages! "Take a photo of this!":



Liam, as usual, was not amused by toilet humour....



I like to stack my crocs up when I'm finished playing with them. Erin said "im on ur log, bein a log" (see lolcats or roflcats sites if you don't get it!):





It takes too long to upload pics and my last lot disappeared so that's all for now. I'll try to get more done tomorrow.


*Minor dramas, like, "This is an announcement for Jetstar passengers. Your flight has been delayed as the pilot has been sick in the plane"! We were NOT flying Jetstar, but that plane was at our gate and got in the way a bit.

More Darwinning

We've been to Crocodylus Park with Victoria and her new baby Fern - click here to see it (the park!). They feed the crocs to make them jump and there are a few boat cruises elsewhere in NT that do similar. I got some pics of one of the lady crocs jumping which I will share along with my other pics when I get home. The boys held a baby croc and tickled its tummy but didn't poke it in the eye this time. When the keeper said "You will notice some of the crocs have their mouths open. They have very small brains, about the size of a 50 cent piece..." I thought he was going to say "They are just stupid and forget to close their mouths", but he then said they leave them open on purpose to cool their brains. :oP

The resort has a jumping pillow which makes the boys run and jump and flip for ages before they realise the exercise is wearing them out. They've also been making good use of the pools. I was going to make use of the internet cafe yesterday morning but it was broken. "Internet" = three computers on one modem, so if the modem breaks it's all gone. "Cafe" = I don't know what, there's certainly no caffeine of any kind in here, or any other food or drink. It's just a small, bare room.

Victoria and John's wedding was yesterday and I was the bridesmaid. :oD It was a nice casual ceremony followed by a meal in the restaurant. John was a bit under the weather by the end of it and kept making the same speech over and over, about how we all respect each other and are friends and he will take care of Vicky and Fern ... I was waiting for him to say "I love youse all"!

Between the ceremony and dinner we saw a lady wandering around. She was a lady who I met the day before and she lives near us in SA! She drove up the red centre to get here. However, everyone was now noticing her for the wrong reasons. She's an old English tart with bleached blonde hair and too much make up... wandering around in a bikini 3 sizes too small. Not only was she absolutely FLABulous, but she seemed to swinging two baseballs in socks, and the bikini bottom was so small she looked like a plumber from the back, and from the from we could see she's not a natural blonde. EEEWWWW!!!! I pretended not to see her because I would have been too embarrassed if she'd spoken to me and people thought I knew her.

On that appetising note, we're off to the pool now to see what else we can see. I haven't been in the water yet because it's FREEZING but that doesn't stop the boys.

In case you're wondering how we're going...

Flights were ok but we didn't get any sleep as we ended up at the back of the plane (despite booking flights 10 months ago). There were two wailing babies behind us and 3 old biddies in front of us who were experts on everything and had to discuss it loudly until after midnight. And it was cold in the plane too! We flew to Melbourne to catch a flight to Darwin, only to find the first flight seemed rather pointless as the second one went back over SA. It was also delayed.

We eventually got to bed about 2am and still couldn't sleep due to the mozzie buzzing us (also tiny ants in the cabin), so I had a most excellent headache today which couldn't be fixed by migraine medication so I went back to the old Panadol and it improved. Caught the bus to McDonalds and the shops for supplies, buses aren't well signposted at all but we made it.

Came back and tried to sleep the headache off but the air conditioner wasn't working (it is now), the ceiling fan makes noises, and so do the boys. Gave up on that and went to one of the 3 pools here and the headache has improved. I have taken some pics but will upload them when I get home, as I've paid $20 for 6hrs of internet (that's the highest amount of time but cheapest per hour), only to find it has limited uploads. I also can't get to Messenger or MSN, so if any of you see this blog, please tell others it's here; my mobile works too. I was going to bring my laptop and use their wireless but I didn't want to cart my laptop everywhere with me.

Well that's all for today I reckon; hopefully tomorrow will be better after we get some sleep.