foundation day

unlike the rest of Australia, WA doesn't celebrate the Queen's birthday in June, so instead we have 'foundation day' a week earlier. Any excuse for a long weekend, who really cares . . .

. . . my only plans for weekend was to finally get a sofa for the lounge. Contacting Kendrick to see if we might be able to borrow his parent's Forrester to transport the sofa home, I managed to score a last minute invite for lunch at his place for Jeremy's famous seafood paella! Along with some lovely brie cheese before the meal, it was a much heartier lunch than the instant noodles I had originally planned . . .

. . . this will now be the third time I have been back to Furniture Bazaar with the aim of buying the Craigie Clic Clac Sofa bed. Service at this less than fine establishment is hardly ideal, but having visited a few other furniture stores, this particular sofa bed seems to be the best value for money. Freedom has several sofa bed in it's catalogue, but none on display. In an embarrassing admission by one of their staff, they informed me that their sofa beds were not very comfortable, which is why none of them were on display! I hesitantly chose the colour 'aubergine' (purple to us guys) from the tiny 3x3 sample as the other options didn't seem that appealing. Thankfully, the finished product looks more maroon, what do you think? It was a very tight fit in the Forrester with both of us having to adjust our car seats to the front most position to fit it in with a rope holding the boot down. Mission accomplished :)

Went to Wesley College on Sunday for my weekly badminton fix, but before we could even start play, we were ushered out by the warden informing us there was an 'emergency' and that this was not a drill. Not that we could see any smoke or flames, we quietly exited the building. Upon enquiring what exactly was the emergency, we were told that there was a 'medical emergency'. Apparently one of the girls who had just finished her volleyball match had had a seizure, and an ambulance was on it's way. Without wanting to sound unkind, but we all wondered why we couldn't just continue on with our badminton. Something to do about liability. Ambulance finally arrived, so we eventually got to play our badminton.

Foundation Day - organised to go for a bush walk along the first section of the famous Bibbulmun Track. As the link will inform you, it starts at Kalamunda near Perth, and heads all the way down to Albany. With perfect weather, one of the locals (thanks Kendrick :) guiding us with a map, we figured we couldn't possibly get lost. Hehe. The sign posting along the track was somewhat lacking, with one of the signs missing at one of the critical turns offs, which caused us to trek along a fire trail beneath the oh-so-picturesque powerlines. Had lunch at a camel riding place we stumbled upon along the way before looping back on the track which we were meant to have arrived on!

It was a great day's hiking, a nice prelude to our trip up to Kalbarri in a fortnight's time. The end of my second long weekend here in Perth.