End of another weekend

Another weekend has gone by. Saturday was filled with finding items (tiles, fabric etc.) for our renovation. It was a day of disappointments to a certain extent. One was re-visting a tile shop only to see the same tiles kept aside for us that we had seen previously and rejected. We have given up the search and will select the more expensive tiles - damn. The other disappointment was finding out that to order the fabric we liked cost 10% more than buying off the shelf even though it was a line that the shop normally has in stock. Did a quick search on the internet and found the same fabric at a cheaper price - bonus.

Coco and Arabella have changed their swimming lessons to 8am on Saturdays so off I went taking the girls to swimming. Arabella is enjoying her new teacher and is actually listening! She still hasn't got the hang of "big arms" but she'll get it soon. Coco continues to swim well. She does lap after lap after lap. I am sure she is exhausted at the end of it.

Today we finally had a free day to just enjoy ourselves without thinking about the renovation. It was one of those dull grey days in Sydney. So we decided to go to Wild life world in Darling Harbour. The kids loved looking at the snakes and spiders. I am sure Arabella will be a snake handler one day. She couldn't keep her hands off the poor diamond python at the exit. She was stroking and while noone was looking squeezing the poor snake. Titi loved the spiders and the nocturnal animals. It was so cute, this morning before we got out of bed, Titi loves to bring books over for a read. He pointed to a butterfly in a book and said "buttie" but by this afternoon he had corrected himself and he said "butterfly" in the butterfly enclosure. He was wearing a yellow jumper and the butterflies were attracted to the colour and kept on landing on him which he found a bit unsettling.

After wild life world we went for a walk around Darling Harbour and discovered a Malaysian Festival. We ate some Malaysian food that I needed a translation for. Coco and Titi loved the food - Nasi Lemak and Matubarak (I hope I got the spelling right). The kids had a play in the playground - Arabella loved the big slide and sandpit (she enjoys anything that will make her dirty and/or wet) and Titi once he finds a good circuit will do it again and again - Up the ramp, into the tower, down another ramp on bottom, round the tower and then up the first ramp and so it continues. We then had some icecreams and then homeward bound. The kids were exhausted by the end of it and we had 2 sleeping beauties on the way home.

Time to start preparing for another week so we can do it all over again.