Kids all ready for their first day of school, well three of them, and a little guy that thinks he's off to school too! Last Tuesday...
Eden's class has Wednesday's off and the big kids finish early. It's also the day the uniform shop is open. So here is Thursday. Went shopping of Wednesday afternoon, so Eden has a new bag, kids have lunch boxes and new shoes too. Thursday started out sooooo cruisy!!!
So cute!
The only pet we have...Mike thinks it's a redback, it's hiding in the window recess, easily as big as that coin, but quite camera shy...
Here's some of the photos from our tourist day...at the SuperPit...this is a face shovel bucket
Looking inside the SuperPit, you really can't see the size of it all from this
The other side...those dots towards the bottom left are huge drill rigs and that windy path through the middle is wide enough to fit two Cat 793's (or huge dump trucks) passing each other easily!
Old tyres are on display too
Chasing the littlest one
Lachie inside the big one (only one allowed to go in, only one that could climb out!)
Lachie inside the tiniest tyre!
This is only the tray off a dump truck. Honestly, I think our house would fit in that!
At Hammond Park, Kalgoorlie. Peacocks everywhere, Lily getting up close...
Great park attractions
Argh, who's eating Cooper? Thanks Lachie for rescuing him!
Eden digging for fossils
The peacocks can hide here when too many little girls are chasing them!
Galah's having lunch
Some of the caged birds at the park
Some not so friendly!
Check out that beak!
Some had little girls wanting to take them home!
Some were even wanna-be models! The poses from this one were great
This one said hello, very loudly! Also looked like he ate cameras!
Luckily the emu's were behind a fence, they're also very friendly! There were supposed to be kangaroos in there but we couldn't find any.
On to the mining museum...spot the tiny kids! See that platform towards the top...?
There we are now!
Meeting a dingo and an echidna
All the kids have recently been to the CHB Setlters Museum, this was very similar actually, just not as hands-on
Down in the vault, checking out all the gold!
On our way home, here's a road train, count the trailers!
A very exhausting day!
Kambalda can be likened to a town about half the size of Waipawa and then add on Otane but keep the road between them. Kambalda West, were we live, has a supermarket, bank, chemist, post office and few other services, plus council office, library, police station and medical centre, also a rec centre about the size of Waipuk's (outdoor pool only, and not open in winter). There's a school that goes from kindy to high school (they didn't have a place for Eden though). Kambalda East (5 minute drive away) has the petrol station, fire station, ambulance station, lookout and the kids' school. Obviously houses both ends.
As I said earlier, Thursday started out so cruisy and normal. Dropped the kids off at school and went into Kalgoorlie to get groceries. I dropped Mike and the groceries off at home then went to pick up the kids from school. As I was putting one of the seat belts on, leaning in the back seat, a 4wd backed into the car crushing my leg in the door. I got to meet lots of school parents! Handy that a nurse and her policeman husband were watching, plus two volunteer ambulance drivers (with the ambulance station across the road from school). Plus one of Mike's friends who I had only met that morning that rang him then went and picked him up! I went in the ambulance to the medical centre. My left thigh had some tissue damage, but no broken bones or even broken skin! Three days on I've stopped the painkillers (well haven't taken them since Friday), don't need the crutches, and really only feel like I've run a marathon, on one leg! Tiniest bit of bruising coming out today, nothing much to show for it! Super lucky that my head was in the car and that she (the other driver) wasn't going fast! Unfortunately thought he bills are large, $300 approx for the ambulance ride and $3500 for the new door (don't ya love Volvo's for that!)...can't buy new legs for that though!
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