I thought I'd do a similar thing to my pervious Perth post and combine all the activities we'd done into one long ramble!
When I got back to Perth, that evening K and I went to see Paramore at Perth arena. Such a good gig and they played all the songs I loved when I was K's age.
Paramore
E and I went twice to adventure world once I was back from Broome. It's a water and theme park and was great fun! The big kid inside of me loved going on the big drop, the racing water slides on mats and the ones on the double rubber rings. E made me go on a scary one that spun around until I felt motion sick! E loved it..... I was shown up by an 11 year old!
I spent a day pampering myself, getting my hair cut and my nails done with the voucher I'd been given by my family for Christmas. The salon had massage chairs which I loved playing with all the different settings although it's strange feeling like I'm being punched by a chair!
I spent a day pampering myself, getting my hair cut and my nails done with the voucher I'd been given by my family for Christmas. The salon had massage chairs which I loved playing with all the different settings although it's strange feeling like I'm being punched by a chair!
Having my nails done
We visited Kalamunda History Village which was really interesting to see town set in the 30s. We drove the old railway zig zag track down the Perth Hills which was stunning. We got some amazing views over Perth and you realise how narrow Perth is. It extends for miles of suburbs north and South but East to west it's only a few suburbs across. In the afternoon we went to a beautiful family run orchard where we tried a few of the ciders they produce there. Well it would have been rude not to have done!
Lovely ciders
On day 99 (how can I have been here for nearly 100 days) I met up with a few of the girls from the Broome tour at Cottesloe beach for a lovely relaxing day of sunbathing, swimming when it became too hot on the sand and a massive fish and chips sunset supper.
Cottesloe Beach
Fish and chips at sunset
I spent a day watching the hobbit part 1 and 2 and one afternoon we went to Rollaways, a roller skate disco, which took me back to being 7 and going to the ones at Whitton school and playing the games like dodge ball.
One evening we went to a music pub quiz where I actually managed to get a few answers that no one else knew! We came second by only half a point! So close and yet so far from the food voucher to eat at the restaurant!
K and I did a really interesting free tour around Perth city centre. We first of all found the bench from Notting Hill in Queens Park. On the tour it was really cool having all these buildings pointed out, going into places I would never have known to and hearing the stories. Only problem was that our guide seemed to preferred Perth in the 'good old days' before all the glass high rise buildings!
In the evening we went back into the city to Kings park to watch a performance of Twelfth night. It was so good. :) one of the funniest things I've seen and I managed to follow what was happening!
Shakespeare in the park
For Australia Day we went into the city centre in the evening to watch the fireworks. We arrived 2 hours early to get a spot and I spent most of that time in the queue for a coffee and for the toilet! I made it back to our spot with 5 minutes to spare before they started. They were the best fireworks I've ever seen, half an hour of amazing fireworks (normal and ones shaped like hearts 4 leaved clovers, stars) all set to music. The speaker we were next to kept cutting out but we had the radio with us so turned it up on there and sang along!!
I spent my last few days doing my favourite things... Swimming and playing Settlers of Catan/Articulate. I think I maybe slightly addicted to both the games!
For my (early) birthday meal we went into Fremantle for a lovely Italian meal before we came back and made out own ice cream bar with lots of different sweets.
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