The Lake House

This past week was the last week for my hubby's Christmas holidays. I'm really rather sad about it actually. We've had some great times over the past 3 weeks. It's gone so quickly and the real year is about to begin for us.

Of course we just had to spend a few days at the lake house. Why not? It's sitting there unoccupied and waiting to be filled with noise, fun and laughter. A friend and her 2 kids were able to come with us this time. It was sooo much fun!

We ate and played board games and went to the lake and into town for coffee. The kids had so much fun playing outside together on bikes and scooters and a skateboard.

The weather was perfect! It would have been so nice to stay a few days longer. There's always weekends though.

This is part of the view from the front verandah. We just sit out there and chat and enjoy the serenity.

This guy graced us with his presence after I put out some bread. My friend Ms M and I were only sitting about 1.5 metres away from him.

Photo taken by Danny

I thought this was a great photo and just had to put it into this post as part of our holiday photos.

Danny and Monkey practising shooting with the air pistol. Monkey thought it was the bees knees!

 Lake Eildon. Well a snippet of it anyway. It's a REALLY big lake and this is just the Gough's Bay bit of it.

Why is sitting by water so calming and relaxing?

He did not let go of Dad's hand.

Just messing about with the B&W function on the camera.

He noticed I was taking photos of him as he was walking out of the water, so he put on quite the display for me.

Cheeky Monkey!!!

This turned into...

...this.

Nice!

And some more. Note the really nice boat in the background.

How the other half live.

By that I mean the older people with grown up kids that they don't have to pay for anymore.

Aaaahhhh the serenity.

~ Ky x

Graffit Art- Melbourne City

There are paintings along the whole length of this alley way.

I had no idea that mythical creatures smoke.

Nothing appears to escape the spray can's touch.

~ Ky x

Some Pics From Last Week

Feeding the black swans at Albert Park Lake.

I think Angel was trying to pat this one. I didn't actually take this photo so I don't know what was going on. I was too busy gas bagging with the friends we were with.

This little duck really wanted that bread, but not enough to actually take it out of Monkeys hand.

Monkey tried and tried to get the duck to come really close, but it just wouldn't.

Playgrounds are fun!

We went back to Middle Brighton Beach...without any swimmers. She was longing to get into that water.

So they did. Just their feet at first.

And then ALL of them.

Mummy learned a lesson from this outing. Always take swimmers when you're going to the beach (even if its a cold, windy day) AND always have a towel in the car.

They were in heaven!

Of course Mummy stood up on the beach, freezing in the cold wind and watched while the kids had a ball.

~ Ky x

On The Last Day of 2010...

...we went to Southbank, Melbourne. Don't know why we ventured out of the air conditioning because it was a stinking, hot day! Probably the hottest day of 2010! It got to 41 C. That's just too hot. Way, way too hot! We didn't end up staying at Southbank for too long.

 We ended up playing ten pin bowling in the air con. Bliss!

My Cuz 'n' I. Just hangin' out together.

I don't actually know what these are, but they looked pretty cool hanging from the jetty.

Some chalk street art. I'm guessing this was drawn the day before because there wasn't anyone there to recieve donations at the time I took this photo.

I can't even begin to imagine to know what it is like to be this talented at drawing.

I really wish I could draw, but that gene totally skipped me.

There is all kinds of art throughout Melbourne. I love it! Art always pops up here when you least expect it.

The golden flys. Or are they wasps?

This is the Eureka building. Supposedly the tallest building in Australia.

Did you have a great New Years? I did. It was very quiet as per usual, but we've had a special guest staying for a few days and it was great to have him here with us for the new year. I'm thinking of keeping him permenantly as he is just the best toy my kids could ever have. He just plays and plays and plays with them. He has almost as much energy as they do. I'm going to miss him when he leaves tomorrow.

Love you big time Cuz!

A happy and prosperous 2011 to all my blog friends!

~ Ky x