Blogs from Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 580

After leaving the drunken debauchery of the East Coast behind, I flew over the great expanse of the red centre, finding myself 5 hours later after falling victim to an outburst of air rage in sunny Perth, Western Australia to be welcomed at the airport by a sign "Neil, Welcome to Perth," oh and my two friends, Una and Amelia! My Australian Christmas Adventure began.... I spent the first week of my stay with the Fitzhardinge's in Como, South Perth. Unfortunately, I picked up an eye infection en route to Perth, so sightseeing took on a whole new meaning! Amelia, however, very kindly took me (with only one eye open) on a whistle stop tour of the city allowing me to get my bearings and settle into my new surroundings. That evening, found us at the ... read more

Its not Christmas at all, really. The heat makes it like any other day, really. We had Christmas dinner, though. Everyone paid $20 and we got breakfast, lunch AND dessert! it was fantastic. Then, we drank goon. I tied tinsel around my cup and made it christmas goon. I believe today we're having the goon olympics. I'm not sure what it involves, but if it involves goon, i'm in! I'm still not a fan of Christmas. Believe me, I try to be, but I just can't get into it. I'd love to be able to avoid it. Aside from Christmas, things are going alright. I'm getting desperate to find a job. If I can't, its back to Adelaide for me. I'll get back to Perth again as soon as I can, but I'll have to go ... read more

A very Merry Christmas to everyone!!! Hope you had a lovely day? I have to admit it was the strangest thing celebrating Christmas away from my lovely family and away from freezing cold temperatures! I don't think I would ever get used to it! Funny how you moan about the cold but when you don't have it at Christmas it's like its not really Christmas at all!!!! ( Brian does not agree with this in the slightest!! :o) ) Fortunately we had a great day though. I wasn't as blue or homesick as I thought, worse so I think on the lead up to Christmas, oh and at Christmas mass. The Priest prayed for all those away from their family's on this special day...and opened up the flood gates! The tears where streaming down my face ... read more

Today Brian became a Godfather! It was lovely! He was absolutely gorgeous and Niamh is the luckiest baby girl in the world! The service was really nice and a great day was had by all...especially Niamh's mummy who had a ball opening all the Christening pressies! The day before Christmas too...pressie overload! lol She must have been in heaven. After the christening service we headed back to Victoria's mum and dads house. Its a really grand old australian house, veranda all the way round, gorgeous, i tried to steal it but it wouldn't fit in my pocket. Just went back and had some champers and some nibbles, opened the pressies then hurried back to may and dereks to get into shorts. The rest of Christmas eve was spent hanging around the pool. How great it was ... read more

Just a quickupdate to wish everyone a merry christmas and happy new year. I'm much too cheap/destitute/lazy to send postcards. This year Christmas won't be the standard winter wonderland and turkey dinners. The temperture in Perth, my present location, is always well above 30 and any cloud cover is rare. The weather man predicts 37 degrees for christmas day. It's the day before Christmas now and I still don't have any solid plans for Christmas day. Yumi and I have treated ourselves to a really nice hotel which is way out of our budget. An air conditioned room though is worth it's weight in gold. This afternoon we are going to a christmas eve BBQ in kings park with a bunch of our friends from Busselton. Christmas day we will probably end up at the beach ... read more