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| Our adventkranz |
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| Austrian inspired xmas decs |
Summer was
sweltering this year. A lovely ‘welcome
back’ – Not! With air conditioning on
full blast and a ‘fat lady’ dress on, I sat still as I could most days during
the school holidays in the shape of a starfish and still sweated buckets! Poor Maciek tiling away getting through three
litres of water every day, the kids in undies taking turns under the hose and
sitting in the paddling pool, and down to the beach in the evenings to cool
off.
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Santa looks familiar?    |
Christmas
as usual on the 24th at Maciek’s oldies for ‘Wigilia’, traditional
Polish Christmas dinner, and at my Dad’s place on the 25th for a not
so traditional English Christmas (some Mediterranean inspiration there I think?). Had a go at a gingerbread house, took hours,
then it collapsed seconds after I took a photo!
We were chuffed with our little Austrian inspired decorations although
they didn’t seem to have the same feel in 40 degrees heat.
The 27th
saw us off on a trip down to Dunsborough, 3 hours drive south from Perth with
our friends the Szijarto’s. We hired a
holiday house come beach shack 2 minutes walk from the beach which was lucky as
the house had no air conditioning and it was like living in a sauna for a
week! It was a nice place, and towards
the end of the week it had cooled off allowing us to actually sleep at night. We spent LOADS of time swimming, visited one
or two wineries and just chilled out (in a sweaty kind of way!) New Years Eve (and little Paul’s 8th
birthday!) was spent on the beach watching the moon rise (I know! We’d never
seen it before either! It’s quite spectacular – bright orange like a sunrise in
a pitch black sky) and twirling glow sticks!
We tried a
hike, Aussie style. With open minds off
we trudged. There’s something slightly
foreboding about the plants and trees, just not very welcoming. They prick you and scratch you and fling back
into your face and you’re always on the lookout for spiders hanging in the
middle of webs waiting to grab onto your face like a giant hand as you walk
into them! So we made a decision there
and then not to do that again. At least
not in Summer anyway!
Here’s a
little Australian version of Jingle Bells:
Jingle
Bells Jingle Bells Jingle all the way
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| Look out for the meat eating plants! |
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| A hot new years eve! |
Christmas
in Australia on a scorching summers day, hey!
Jingle
Bells Jingle Bells Christmas time is beaut
Oh what fun
it is to ride in a rusty holden ute!
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| The crew at the lighthouse |
oh, finally you found some time to write... nice to read from you. How r u guys? We're fine.. still busy with house and garden.. but trying to enjoy the summer with bike tours, swimmingpools (would prefer a beach)and some child friendly hikes in the mountains. How r the kids? kisses to everyone!
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