Monday, January 5, 2009

We've arrived!

The flight:

The flight was good and comfortable, or as comfortable as you can expect with two kids ...
Jessica slept most of the time, I gave her something to sleep and am I glad I did! Ryan was so impressed with the in-flight entertainment, he watched movies and played games until we told him to sleep, after about 4 hours.

Perth - day 1:

Arriving at Perth was a bit hectic, going through customs, passport control. It was nice to be bumped to the front of the queue because we had two kids (that happened at OR Tambo as well, we went through the assisted passengers queue at passport control!) Customs was fine, they didn't ask to see the medicine that we declared, were concerned about food but we didn't have any. Asked to see a wooden box carved out of wood by Brett's great grandfather, but didn't have a problem with it.

Collin fetched us with his Prado and thank goodness ... it had enough space for all our stuff!! 9 pieces of checked-in luggage and 5 pieces of hand luggage!

Perth is beautiful, but hot and there are flies. Little flies that are quite lazy! A couple of times a waved my hand around my face to get rid of them and managed to smack it!

Yesterday afternoon after a nice swim in Collin's pool, we went to the city and walked around. Unfortunately we forgot to take the camera.

Last night was okay, Jessica went to sleep around 9 (the sun sets around 20:30!), but woke up around 11, happy and chatty after her "afternoon nap". Ryan is a bit rattled, I think he expected to see his friend Christiaan, but we're only going to Brisbane next week. But when we fell asleep we slept until 9 this morning when Collin's mom woke us up.

Perth - day 2:

Today we explored Perth city, got there with the bus and the train. Collin had to work, but his mom and dad were kind enough to show us around. We were supposed to go to the Commonwealth bank to activate our account by going there in person with our passports, but I was clever enough to leave our passports at home ... oops! So we'll go again tomorrow!

The bus service is great! Nice, new and well maintained busses with air-con, what a pleasure! There is a bus stop a short walk from Collin's house and a bus runs past every 15 minutes. The train was also excellent, clean, fast. Always space to put a pram or for a wheelchair. We walked around in Perth central, I'll post photos later. Had lunch in the food court, it's got chairs and tables in middle and lost of fast food places around, so you order what you want, get your food and sit in the communial area to eat. Very nice! When I went to the bathrooms to change Jessica's nappy I found a stunning changing room with a comfy couch, microwave, changing station. Very nice! They really do cater for kids! There are lovely parks with jungle gyms everywhere! (Not in the city, but in the suburbs)

Tomorrow we'll have to go back to the bank, and afterwards we'll meet up with Collin and his parent to go to the zoo! Can't wait!

We're enjoying it here, I'm really relaxed ... we're on holiday! Miss my friends and family though.

1 comment:

Doug said...

Hi guy this is great. You have just got to post pictures...lots of pictures. Mon doing well .... maybe not but time will work for her and this blog will help her say in touch. I will teach her how to work with it.

Love Dad
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