Showing posts with label Australia Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australia Day. Show all posts

Thursday, January 27, 2011

What a day!

Well Australia Day has come and gone for another year.
Apparently it was the hottest Australia Day in 20years so it was a perfect day to go for a jet boat ride on the Harbour.

If you ever go on this ride don't be fooled into thinking that the raincoat will keep you dry.
Marissa sat in the front without a raincoat and we were just as wet as her and we wore a raincoat.
It was such a lot of fun and the kids are already asking if we can do it again next year.
A huge tip though, if you ever have a ride take your shoes off and leave them behind as they will be soaked through and there is nothing worse than wearing wet socks and wet shoes home from the city. Also take a change of clothes because we were still wringing out our clothes as we walked to the train to come home.
We also wandered through the activities in Hyde Park and looked at the vintage cars lining College street and Maquarie Street and just had a really lovely family day out in the city.

It was a fabulous way to celebrate the completion of my ETL507 and ETL503 assignments.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Happy Australia Day

Happy Australia Day everyone.
I absolutely love the celebrations for today.
Every year we venture into the city, we start at Hyde Park and then weave our way down to Circular Quay looking at all of the vintage cars along the way.
The boys love it, and as my 16year old informed me last night "it is our tradition".
I tried to veto the whole thing last night because today it is going to be the hottest Australia day in 31 years and we have experienced some hot ones!
Anyway it wasn't to be and we are going to head in after everyone wakes up.
We have added an extra bit of excitement this year as we are going to go on a jet boat ride in the Harbour and out through the heads which should be fun. Every year we are nagged to go for a ride so this year I pre purchased tickets at half price as a surprise, except that I am hopeless at keeping secrets and told them during the week. Needless to say they are really excited. Hopefully we will get our ride in before it storms.

I am so excited that I can enjoy today because very late last night I finished my ETL507 portfolio which was very exciting.
Denise now has my two assignments and is busy formatting them and spacing them out beautifully for me so that I can hand both of them in on the weekend.
It is such a relief.
I now have about 2 weeks of freedom before I start the last 2 subjects of my course...(assuming that I pass these)
Oh well off to the city for the day....

Happy Australia Day.