Saturday, April 30, 2011

Easter Monday / Anzac day

Monday 25 April

Easter Monday
also
Anzac Day


A very wet day, but not cold.

We put on our raincoats and went
to Fairlight for a walk along
the sea shore.
We were very lucky it did not rain much.
Just few little showers.
But it started to pour when
we got back to the car.




Potiche

Tuesday 26 April


Very wet day.
This morning I went to aqua
While Claude worked a few hours.

After lunch to went to the movie
at the old Cremorne  cinema.
"The Orpheum"
a 1930 art deco picture palace
We were in the main room.
Very beautiful  (the whole place is lovely)
A man was playing an old organ on stage.
When he finished the floor
opened and the organ went down
with the man bowing to us.

I took some photos with my phone
but they were not good.

We saw a French movie
"Potiche"
with Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu.

A witty comedy

Monday, April 25, 2011

Easter 2011

Sunday 24 April

Easter
We were at 10 am at Shane and Jo's
place to hide our eggs for the
children eggs hunt before
Mykaela had to go to her dad.

 The girls are very nice outfit from India.
Shane bought it for them on his last trip.
 Mykaela spied some eggs
 Amelia did very well



Then Mykaela played her flute....Amelia too

 Me making fun of the Japanese tourists yesterday
on Manly beach.
I wonder what significance doing this with
their means?????


Then dressing up and dancing


Grand dad joined in too

I still have to learn  lot about this
camera, I just like to point and shout.
Claude is much better.
But there is hope, Jo told me that
I was the same when I first got my old camera.

Central coast

Friday 22 April


Good  Friday

It turned out to be a very nice day.
We packed up a picnic and drove to
the central coast.



We went to Avoca beach but it was
very crowded and no parking spot.
So we went on to Copacabana.
We went to relax on the beach
and had our lunch.


The we drove back to Avoca beach.
some people were jumping from
the rock.





From there we went to Terrigal.
They have done a lot of work
in the park. Very nice walkways.

I am just trying my new camera.
Still not happy.

On top of my camera problem I am having
blogging problem for the past week.
As I understand it, Google blogger
stop publishing after updating to
Microsoft Internet explorer 9
for vista.
I had to use another copy of the google blogger
called blogger in draft.
So now I have to learn that too.
I had a very stressful afternoon.
Oh boy I don't like changes.

New camera

Thursday 21 April


We went to a camera shop to have my camera
look after.

Not good news.

The lens mechanism is broken.
It will be too expensive to have it fix
so we bought a new camera and I have
to re learn everything.
I am not happy.

We went to Manly to test it.....



Painting Easter eggs

Wednesday 20 April

This morning I got Amelia up as soon as she was awake to
let Mykaela sleep in a bit longueur.

We went to a park with a tall climbing frame
for Mykaela and there is also 4 different
types of slides.
One was bumpy and Mykaela was sliding lying down.
It looked very strange to see her body
sliding and undulating.

Amelia had fun too sliding between the
legs of her sister and
having Mykaela between her legs.

But I could not make my camera to work.
When I got home Claude managed to
make it work for a short time
and I was able to take 4 photos
before it died.
 They are painting plaster Easter eggs

Mykaela had her I pod on.
She was listening to songs and time to time
was bursting into song.


Amelia was not eating.
She was more interested in watching the birds.
So I dragged her high chair near them.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

South Head

 Sunday 17 April
Today we went for a walk along
South Head
 some nice carvings 

 North Head
Where we were last Friday 15 April

 Yes, there is a nudists beach.
You can see them from the path.
They were only old fat men, not worth watching.




an old cobbles path




North head national park