Earthquake hits Melbourne !

Quite a rare event hit Melbourne last night in that a magnitude 2.5 earthquake struck at about 10:30pm last night. The earth moved for us (well the building seemed to anyway).... boom boom. You knew that was coming didn't you.

Whitsundays

While it might start with the same 4 letters as Whitley Bay, the Whitsunday Islands are in fact nowhere near Tyne & Wear. Despite the striking similarities to Whitley (it has a beach), we are in fact booked up to go there in mid-November. Hamilton Island one of the larger in the Whitsundays which is just off the coast of Queensland and will be our tropical paradise for a week, exploring the Great Barrier Reef and generally drinking lots of beer & cocktails by the pool. 5 weeks and counting.....whooo hooo!

http://www.hamiltonisland.com.au/

Aidan at 6 months

Aidan was 6 months old on Saturday so we had a few hours at the beach with him, testing out the water for the first time. The spring weather is warming up nicely now and it got to 26 degrees yesterday - perfect for the kids playing on the beach.

2006 Royal Melbourne Show

Here's a picture of us all from the Royal Melbourne Show on Sunday. The lamb isn't ours, we just borrowed him/her. The show is a bit of Melbourne institution with kids as it has a big fun fair. They also have things called 'Show bags' ... i.e. lots of crap plastic toys & sweets stuffed in bags for $20. Bargain. Well Ethan thought so anyway. Apart from the fair there's loads of 'country' stuff, hence the farm animals and some great food. We concentrated on the food.