Weekend activities
The past weekend has been quite busy for all of us. Starting on Friday night, Caroline was off with a friend's family who took her to see the drag racing at Eastern Creek, out in the west of Sydney. She came back during the day on Saturday, when Laura was at work and the rest of us had headed into Sydney to visit Chinatown for their New Year market. We caught the fast bus from nearby Forestville centre which took about 30 minutes to get into the centre and cost less than £2 each.
Once at Chinatown we started off in the nearby and very large indoor Paddy's Market - loads of stalls, including an area of fruit & veg and fish. However, the majority of the market comprised of long rows of stalls selling clothes, electrical goods and other items (including 3 wig shops in quick succession). It was cheap - and mostly tacky - but could be useful for some things!
We then walked up through the markets in Chinatown, which was interesting - particularly the carved vegetables on one stall (pictured below) and also the Spam stall, which was being advertised as the perfect addition to fried rice! We didn't realise there were so many 'flavours' of spam available!
After that, we headed to Darling Harbour and spent a few hours there, including lunch, before catching the bus back home. Rebecca then had a friend round for the night and Laura was off to a party, so I had a late night pick-up which at least gave me an excuse to watch the Arsenal-Blackburn FA Cup match live, which was a frustratingly dull 0-0 draw!
Sunday is becoming 'homework day' for Laura and Caroline, so Sue and I took Rebecca and her friend down to Curl Curl beach. Although the sea was quite calm, the girls headed off to the sea pool but Rebecca stepped on something in the pool which left her with 5 or 6 tiny spines in her heel which were quite painful to walk on, like splinters. A lifeguard tried pulling them out, with no luck, so we came back home and Sue tried with a needle and got about half out - the rest are still there at the moment...
The past weekend has been quite busy for all of us. Starting on Friday night, Caroline was off with a friend's family who took her to see the drag racing at Eastern Creek, out in the west of Sydney. She came back during the day on Saturday, when Laura was at work and the rest of us had headed into Sydney to visit Chinatown for their New Year market. We caught the fast bus from nearby Forestville centre which took about 30 minutes to get into the centre and cost less than £2 each.
Once at Chinatown we started off in the nearby and very large indoor Paddy's Market - loads of stalls, including an area of fruit & veg and fish. However, the majority of the market comprised of long rows of stalls selling clothes, electrical goods and other items (including 3 wig shops in quick succession). It was cheap - and mostly tacky - but could be useful for some things!
We then walked up through the markets in Chinatown, which was interesting - particularly the carved vegetables on one stall (pictured below) and also the Spam stall, which was being advertised as the perfect addition to fried rice! We didn't realise there were so many 'flavours' of spam available!
After that, we headed to Darling Harbour and spent a few hours there, including lunch, before catching the bus back home. Rebecca then had a friend round for the night and Laura was off to a party, so I had a late night pick-up which at least gave me an excuse to watch the Arsenal-Blackburn FA Cup match live, which was a frustratingly dull 0-0 draw!
Sunday is becoming 'homework day' for Laura and Caroline, so Sue and I took Rebecca and her friend down to Curl Curl beach. Although the sea was quite calm, the girls headed off to the sea pool but Rebecca stepped on something in the pool which left her with 5 or 6 tiny spines in her heel which were quite painful to walk on, like splinters. A lifeguard tried pulling them out, with no luck, so we came back home and Sue tried with a needle and got about half out - the rest are still there at the moment...
posted by Hawkins Family @ 8:39 am
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