Earth Hour

Yes we participated in Earth Hour and switched the lights off for an hour at 8pm on Sat night 29/03/08.

It was dinner time, so we ate our steak and vegies via candlelight. Mark kept complaining that he couldn't see what he was eating.

What do you do when you've got the Flu?

Went to work with a very sore throat on Tuesday and ended up with the flu by the end of the day...lots of sneezing, runny nose and tissues.

I came back from my holidays and found out the I had been made Acting Manager, while Philip was off on leave. Great! Thanks! NOT!

Anyway, I've been busy working on putting my Japanese girls together. Didn't go to work on Friday 28 , stayed home sick, so I worked on finishing these dolls. I've just got one more to complete and then I'll have to mount and frame them.

Carcassone, Bean Game & Bloody Nose

Easter Monday

Casey invited us over for games...he'd been having withdrawn symptoms, what with Shirley taking up the dining table with all her scrapbooking stuff. With us going over, he had the excuse to clean up her stuff.

We played a mean game of Carcasonne, where at one stage Evan was picking on everyone (Ken & me) bar Casey and Shirley...he picked the wrong people, cos Casey ended up winning again..don't know how he does it.

Same when we played the bean game...again Evan didn't want to trade - "he is such a sore loser" - anyway, Casey won again, but for Ken's first game, he managed to come a close second. Me, I thought I was doing very well, but apparently not when it came to counting my beans.

We had a late lunch of ham, cucumber, tomato, avocado, cheese sandwiches.

After playing those games, it was time to get going to the tennis courts for an early game of tennis.

We managed to have enough players turn up that we could play on 3 courts.

I did a first by hitting myself in the nose with my tennis racquet and giving myself a bleeding nose. Lost a massive amount of blood and had heaps of bleeding nose advice...seems the best way to stop a bleeding nose is to pinch the nose and tilt the head forward...not back.

After our action packed games, we went to dinner at Shangers.

Silvia & Jana's BBQ

Easter Sunday

Silvia invited a whole bunch of us to Jana's place for a BBQ...and in her words...'not to announce their engagement' as it was announced to everyone already...but anyone else could use it to make an announcement.

Who was there? Jana, Silvia, Emily, Chris, William (2), Amelia (5 mons), Jana's brother, Evan, Ken, Steve, Marisa, Linda, Tony, Ruben, Shy (expecting in August), Jim, Alex, Alex's wife (also expecting), Fliora (Alex's daughter), Dan, Mandi, Nick, Quan, Wendy, Dan Kong (Donkey), Kim (expecting in August), Suzy, Vanita, Julz, Bevan.

Food? Chicken satay sticks, malaysian curry, vegetarian curry, fish cakes, roti pancakes, fried noodles..and other food which Jana's mum kept cooking up.

Lots of food, drinks, gossip and catching up to do.

Frank's 50th Birthday

On 15th March we help Frank celebrate his 50th birthday at the Cabramatta Bowling Club. Missy had to have her hair curled which took more than 2 hours, but then put it up in a pony tail when we got to the club.

It was club buffet, with fried chicken wings, chips, chicken schnitzel, fried rice, boiled rice, sizzling steak, stir fried vegetables, prawn crackers, spring rolls, chow mein.

DJ Ming was hired to play the music and had the dance floor pumping with music and dancers.

My 42nd Birthday

On the 7th March, we checked out of Pacific Palms and drove up to Port Macquarie. We took the route through Taree, stopping at Spotlight, which gave me a chance to go and checkout the scrap book shop. From Taree, we drove to Wingham, where we tossed up between the road to Ellenborough Falls or the road to Comboyne. On the map, it looked like the Falls road was unsealed and the road to Comboyne was sealed. Apparently the map was wrong, as the road to Comboyne turned from a sealed road to unsealed as we drove up the Killbakh Mountains, and into the hills of Comboyne. Was a steep bumpy climb with no lookout to show for it. Drove through dairy pastures to Wauchope. I had to visit the scrapbook shop here too...why not, we were there already. From there we went to Port Macqaurie..stopped at KFC to buy our late lunch and drove to Tacking Point Lighthouse to eat our KFC in the car.


After we checked into Port Pacific, Port Macquarie, we went for a quick dip in the pool, before Evan cooked up a huge meal of Spag bol, with side salad. This was followed by a cheesecake which was bought not made.

Then we played Wii until past midnight.

Birds and Lighthouses

In March, we went up to Forster and Port Macquarie for 2 weeks.

We stayed in Pacific Palms Resort, unit 27. Although it was far from the pool and tennis courts, we had a verandah, which was frequented by kookaburras. Imagine our surprise when not one, but 4-5 of them sat in a row...waiting to be fed. Being our first night...we didn't have anything for them. But the following nights we fed them chicken skins and prawn heads.


We also visited quite a few lighthouses. Sugar Loaf Point Lighthouse, Seal Rocks. Tacking Point Lighthouse, Port Macqaurie and Smoky Cape Lighthouse, South West Rocks.



At night we would play Wii. Lots of fun and laughs as we moved from amateurs to pros in bowling, hit home runs, practised our skill in tennis and learned to putt and chip.