Jo's 32

Wednesday 25 August

Jo is 32 today

13 of us went to the Blue Gum in Waitara

to celebrate.

(It was not where Jo had planned to go

but Shane friend who live near the other

place did not recommend it)

The whole table

not a good photo but the other one was worse

Jo's dad Paul, Jeanette his fiancee

and Jo's grand ma Ada

Shane let Amelia out of the chair...

She came to the other end of the table where

her grand parents were sitting...

wave to us, said bye, and took off.

oh the reaction!

both grand dads jumped out of their seat

in hot pursuit.

Jeanette and I burst out laughing

Jo and her friend Jacki

Mykaela

close your month Shane.

He had a big plate of spare ribs.

Fiona and Pete, their daughter Maddie

was sick, they went home straight after diner

Oh the cake!

Ada made it, Black forest cake with the

cherries marinated in brandy

of course the girl blew the candles.

Look at the size of this cake.

It was very yummy.

We had a very nice evening and Jo got spoiled

good bye

Wednesday 25 August

I decided to clean out the cupboard

which harboured my spices and cake

essence and decorations etc.

Tharyn and Rob wedding cake decoration

had had it.
It is now all yellow and very sticky.
It had lasted five years.

Tharyn send it to me with a huge piece of cake
yummy..the icing and marzipan
oh boy..Shane, Claude and I fought over it.

Ride along Botany Bay

Sunday 22 August

Beautiful day

packed up a picnic

and the bikes

we rode all along Botany Bay to Captain Cook

bridge. we stopped for a picnic
an Asian man was flying a hawk kite
the white cockatoo went berserk

here we are near the runway

Queenscliff to North head

Friday 20 August

We packed a picnic and went for a bush walk

from Queenscliff ( where we know about free parking)

to North head. ( national park)

we stopped at Manly beach for a coffee.

the army was doing some helicopter manoeuvres

the pool at Fairy Bower as being clean.

they do it every fortnight.

a group of fishing birds

at the top of Shelly beach

starting the ascent.

at a look out

same lookout

good to remember in case of rain

going through the army place

it has been taken over by the Harbor trust

and the National park

Hanging swamp

The Rock that make up North head is

sedimentary Hawkesbury sandstone which has

a hard surface. Water does not easily seep into this rock.

old army shelter

the Gatehouse

it is now the visitor centre

we arrived

view from our picnic

Anne birthday

Thursday 19 August

Eight of us from the aqua group went

to Livoti's Deli/Cafe

to celebrate Anne birthday.

Her birthday is the 1st September

and she will be away on holidays.

She is leaving on Wednesday for 7 weeks.

Lucky girl.

Anne is the 3rd on the right, Rosina is missing

on the photo, she was late and I forgot to

have another photo taken

At the park

Wednesday 18 August

We made it to the park with teddy

and her purse.

First Amelia had a good look at

all the children and parents.

Boy he last few weeks we can't

find a non crowded playground.

but oh joy

she is back to normal.

she went and explore EVERYTHING

here she saw the little boy sitting on that

and she plonk herself on it and almost

fall backward. But she has very

good reflexes and right herself.

not good for my blood pressure

here she is trying one of the high slippery dip

she saw bigger kids go up that net to

access the other 2 slippery dip.

but when she arrived at the top,

more net and horizontal,

she turn and complained

so I lift her off

and sat her mid way to one

of the slide

When we arrived home she wanted to close

her seat belt so I left her to it and went to collect

the mail.

When I came back to the car this is were

I found her...

She had crawl in between the 2 front seat

and was at the stirring wheel.

I will have to remember this trick!!!!

Banana girl

Wednesday 18 August

After her breakfast of 1 1/2 Weetbix

with milk, she request:

"banana?"

so I half peel a banana and broke a bit,

oh boy I almost had a tantrum.

She did not want the broken half

she wanted the half with the skin

and she pushed back the skin.

But later on at the park she ate the other

half without a skin on.

Every week she does more and more stuff.

She keep me on my toes.

Amelia new bag

Tuesday 17 August

Shane dropped off Amelia.

No back pack this week but a gorgeous

sequins purse.....

do you like the outfit????

yep Shane's.

After her bath, she run and sit near Grand dad

to watch TV.

you see how Claude is hugging a cushion for warth,

well she does that too but I took the photo

too early.

She made me comb her hair and put her hair band.