Happy Birthday to you....your majesty!

It's the Queen's birthday on Monday, which means it's a public holiday - woohoo!  Actually, if I were being pedantic, I'd tell you it's not actually the Queen's birthday in September - it's in June. Which is when the rest of Australia celebrate it.  Here, however in WA, it is decreed that we will celebrate the monarch's birthday based on when the kids break up from school and when the Perth Royal Show is.  WA is indeed a law unto itself!

The rest of Australia apparently also has Daylight Saving Time, but WA decided it wasn't a great idea, so we don't.  It makes me wonder if it was just to complicated a concept for them to implement.

It's been a fairly busy week in the Thompson household so far.  At the weekend we ventured north, through Swan Valley, up to Walyunga national park.  The kids had a great time climbing on rocks, finding sticks and the like.  Apparently the river that runs through there is the best white water rafting to be found in Australia.

Pretty, isn't it?

Grace has a trail ballet lesson tomorrow which she's very excited about and I had my initial appraisal at the gym today.  Agatha had a wonderful time in the creche at the gym and didn't want to come home.

It's Paul's birthday on Thursday (for all of those who haven't sent him a card yet!) and we're going to see Sleeping Beauty on Saturday, performed by Western Australia Ballet - apparently the set is so huge they had to move the show to a larger theatre.

We haven't told the kids about it - partly to avoid Grace getting too excited, and partly to stop Ruben from trying to get out of it!


Not sure if I've already mentioned this, but I've got an iPhone 4 on order - too exciting, eh?  Apple have woefully underestimated the demand over here and hence the average waiting time is 5 weeks.  Hopefully I won't have to wait that long!

So that's it - nothing more to report, folks!

Just wanted to say a quick thanks to those few people that follow my blog, either publicly (or privately - you stalkers, you!!)