This will be another shorter post, with few photos. We had intended to check out the city of Perth on Saturday, but when the temperature was forecast to be 39 on both days, we decided to be boring and stay at the van by the air con.
We were both having a few issues with receiving emails, and spent time unsuccessfully trying to work that out. Another blog post was written, and some time was spent reading a book and I think there may have been another snooze.
A bit of time was spent by Barry, checking out the map book, and thinking about our future schedule.
We had thought to extend here a few more days, but apparently they are booked out for the weekend as there is a Robbie Williams concert here!! Seems like Perth has plenty of concerts over here.
A phone call later in the afternoon from a friend of Barry's invited us to go out with them to the 8 Napkin cafe at Bassadean for burgers that evening. This was followed by an enjoyable walk around the surrounding streets before Di and Cedric dropped us back to the caravan park.
Sunday morning we attended the Destiny Church with Di, and it was so good to attend church after a couple weeks absence. This was followed by a yummy lunch provided by the members of the church. The temperature was rather hot when we got back to the car. As we had come into Perth from the north, Barry decided to take a drive up into the hills on the Great Eastern Highway and show me the view of Perth as we came up over the hills. And then a drive back along a different highway to the park, where we "vedged" out. (is that even a word??)
At the encouragement of the park management, Barry has been watering the grassed area around our site. When we arrived this was very yellow, but is now much greener. Every so often he will head out the door of the van, saying "just going to shift the irrigation!!" There is another couple of van owners also doing the same thing, and the whole row is looking much better.
While Barry was outside 'shifting the irrigation' later in the evening, he got chatting to a guy in the van across the road. In the course of conversation he asked Barry where he was from, and when he heard Bordertown he laughed. His wife came from Bordertown, and they live at Murray Bridge. What a small world we really live in..... I know his wife, Sarah, and in fact on the bed in their van is a quilt that I quilted for Sarah's mother, Linda, a few months ago. Sarah went to school at Bordertown with one of my daughters. And the world got a bit smaller still when Glen told me he knows 2 of my brothers at Murray Bridge!! Sarah and Glen are touring Australia for 12 months, and it is amazing we both ended up at the same park in Perth.
The evening temperature dropped considerable and there were a few rain drops, which developed further overnight into lightening and thunder and some rain. The forecast temperatures for the week at set to be much better, so we will be out and about again.
Be back another day,
Blessings, From Jude
4 comments:
Lovely to catch up with friends.
Sure hope it stays cooler for you and you can do some more sight seeing.
How funny to run into someone you know. I did the same at Yokohama quilt show. I ran into a lady from Kilmore quilters where I was a member before moving to Mildura. This is happening a lot. Keep up the chatting.
I can believe it when you said you ran into people you knew. The world is a small place. We ran into five separate couples we knew while travelling last year, one we hadn’t seen in about 30 years. How do people go missing? I’m glad you are going to get some cooler weather now.
The world certainly is a small place!! Enjoying reading your travels.
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