Albany Long Weekend

Over the March, Labour Day long weekend, Chris, Lucas and I headed down the highway to spend the weekend in Albany. The weather was predicted to be a number of degrees cooler than Perth, who had just come off an all-time high of some ridiculously high number of consecutive days over 30 degrees!! So the cooler weather was very welcome indeed!!

We travelled down on the Friday night, and arrived quite late at night. We spent the Saturday pottering around, relaxing, and generally not doing much of anything. We did spend a lot of time playing Wii. I paid for this the next day as i must have used muscles that haven't been used much lately :(

We also made our usual pilgrimage to the Dome where we enjoyed lunch with my mum and sister. As per usual, Lucas set about charming anyone who would look his way and we give him attention :)

Sunday we had coffee and cake with my grandparents, who Lucas calls Opa and Oma. He was a little confused because Opa Hart didn't look like the man he usually calls Opa (Opa Vdl) :S

Then on Monday we headed down to the beach, to let Lucas get used to the sand and water. We find it difficult to get to the beaches up here, as most require a longer drive and we are usually pretty busy on the weekends. And in Albany the beaches are only 10mins away and even though Monday was cooler again, we decided to go down for a little while. Lucas doesn't particularly like the beach (he's like his mum), the sand or the water. But Chris managed to get him a bit wet and covered in sand AND to give a smile.

All in all, a nice, relaxing, quiet weekend in Perth. And then, before we knew it, it was back up the highway to the daily life of warmer weather, household chores and work. We are now busy preparing for yet another road trip, this time to see our nephew and two nieces.