What?! 2 Years....Dead Set

Holly & Her Perm Man

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This is us on Christmas Day on one of Margaret Rivers beautiful beaches. The scenery looks amazing, and Holly's hair and dress look great. And well yes, I'm getting a wonderful perm from the wind, our legs were being eaten by a wicked wind that was blowing the sand on us, and the water was Freeezing compared to Exmouth.

Christmas Oz Style!

So we spent Christmas at Margaret River with Darryl & Donna, Jackie, Greg, Jameson and Sienna and Donna's two boys Clayton and Shannon.
We had a ball. The chalet where they stayed was a lovely little place with a big garden set on acres of farmland, 3 horses to feed and play with, woodland to explore, paddocks..you name it we had it. And best of all it was cold! My, my, we hadn't been this cold for a long time, the wind blows pretty hard down there.

Boxing day & christmas day were spent relaxing and enjoying food & drink, we get on really well with everybody there so there was never a dull moment. A constant battle between parents and children to get the washing up done, to which we intervened a few times..In my family (David) we call it cabin fever. But other than that we had great fun.

After Christmas and Boxing day we ventured out and did some of the things that Margaret River is famous for. Some beach exploring Cheese Factories, Chocolate factories, Coffee Factories and not even mentioning the various wineries we went to. The vineyards look beautiful from the road, all lush and green and all sporting pretty impressive shop areas where you can try and buy their produce. The rows of vines reminded Holly and I of Olive trees, the area is a big producer of olives too.

So after a day of gorging on cheese, chocolate sampling the areas sights we went back to the chalet and used the rest of our energy up relaxing. Now the caves down there are incredible too, we did a cave called the Jewel cave, aptly named because of its glistening stalagmites and tights that adorn the caves. We stopped at various areas and marvelled at the glistening poles and listened to the history of the cave. That particular one is  maintained and run (I believe) by the family who originally discovered it. The guys two daughters have been married in the cave too.
The second cave was an adventure cave, Holly and I do everything in things (flip flops) but we were told this had to be a closed shoe affair, so being as we are...Holly wore a pair of shoes we found on the driveway and I wore a borrowed pair of hiking boots, it was Ace! Climbing ladders into crevices about 4 feet wide, descending down steep slopes with a rope. The entrance to this cave was on a man made walkway but it felt like you were walking into a giants mouth. Needless to say we had great fun, Holly conquered her fears and managed to do everything. We were very proud of her.  This was also huge for Donna as she has a CRAZY fear of heights.  The first cave she actually could not complete.  So, for her to complete the adventure one was awesome.  :)  That night there was also an earthquake...for the people who were awake and her it at midnight it sounded like some sort of gas explosion.  The house shook.  We had no idea what it was until we found out on the news the next day that there was a 2.3 earthquake just off the coast of Margaret River.

After our Christmas we came back to Perth via Dunsborough and Busselton, some really nice areas on the coast, and headed to Greg and Jackie's house. We are house sitting for them untill we leave to feed their dog, cat and fish while they take a family break up in Cervantes.

We sold our van on Thursday to a girl called Hannah, which was bittersweet. We went to a  small new year's eve party last night where we met some nice people and drank tea all night.  After the party we stayed at Tanya's and ended up playing with her baby magpie until the early hours of the morning. Notice I skipped quickly passed the Baby Magpie, It's a tricky one to explain. Cute though. And today caught the train to Cannington which is south of the River in Perth and saw our dear friends from Exmouth Catherine & Wayne. What a good day today was. We hung out in the pool ate a little, then ate a lot and relaxed all evening. Very Nice.

Tomorrow is Sunday, I know we have a BBQ at night but the day will be spent organizing our last things Because we Leave on Monday/Tuesday :( Very Sad Times. I can't really say that just yet, we are heading to Bali for 10 days on the way to the UK. Not too bad, we're quite lucky really.

That's all for now, Next blog will probably be from Bali. With Stephanie!!!! Woooo

Love you all,

David & Holly