Perth

Arrived a few days ago...pretty bad start leaving Canberra as the qantas computer network was down which transpired into a 45min wait to drop the bags off (they had to go manual) followed by a late departure.

Needless to say Ella was quite excited by going on a big plane. She didn't manage to get to sleep until well after 10pm while Katy drifted off just before 9pm. On arrival at Perth Ella woke up and was chatting away to Grandpa. Her conversation included how she had gone on a big colourful plane that flew like a butterfly - not sure where the second part of this sentence came from but it was very cute!

At Nanna and Grandpa's it took another few hours for Ella to get back to sleep and then she seemed to wake up early too! So she has been struggling to adapt to Perth time - been up very early 5am each morning despite being very tired. It's now 10am and she has crashed so perhaps this may help to get her into the right zone.

What have been doing so far? Well the first day we spent changing sleeping arrangements after the first nights experience. Ella is in our room on a mattress while Katy has her own room. We also had a car seat drama which was fixed by the lovely people at Kidsafe and we bought Rachel and Craig's Phil and Ted's pram from them. Andy dropped into UWA for the arvo just to touch base with Greg.

It was raining most of Wednesday and with everyone at work, the girls and I entertained ourselves at home for most of the day. Our only outing was a trip to the shops to buy dinner stuff.

Yesterday we visited Great Nan. Ella was fascinated by the 2 chickens and kept feeding them aniseed leaves. Great Nan gave us a dozen eggs and some silverbeet to take home.

Then in the arvo we met up with Aoife, Cath and Carolyn at Kings Park. Cath dragged me along for a run while the girls played together (??) on the fantastic massive Sticky Beaks playground and Katy discovered grass! Ended up at Cath's for dinner.