The Park of Kings
(Fun fact: If you can see the dock in the river, I've been on the ferry that takes off from there and sails across to the other side)
Kings Park! Wow I miss being there already. On Saturday, Nic took us to a large park on a "mountain" near Perth. Yes, in Australia, the highest things around are hills, so they call them mountains. This park had gorgeous views (like the one above, eat your heart out National Geographic), amazing trees (what's with me and trees? Almost like I need them for life or something...) and everything else that a good park should have (like bathrooms and weird canoodeling couples). It was a great trip with most of the group, and I'm surely heading back to the park to watch the sun go down over the city sometime this month.
Easter Feast
After the fasting and conservative behaviour of Lent, it was definitely time for a feast, preferably involving large amounts of candy (something I have given up for lent. And no, homemade recess cups are not candy, they are baked goods). Easter delivered on that in a big way. The house was split into five groups to take care of parts of the dinner, and Megan, Ona, Julia and I were tasked with the main course. We managed to produce lemon pepper chicken, quiche, and honey sweet ham (which is surprisingly disgusting to cut up after cooking it in the oven. I mean, I cut raw meat all the time, and this was bad.) But it tasted great, and the meal was awesome. We had 32 people! (21 residents of Cleos and 11 family and friends guests!).
(This is after the meal, when everyone is full and unable to move)
The best and worst part of the day were the morning easter basket hunts. Nic had strategically hidden an chocolate egg for all of Cleos, and the goal was to find your egg and follow the inside clue to your Easter basket full of candy. After about 20 minutes of looking, I went to the community basket for a chocolate egg. I looked through to see if my egg was in the basket, but I couldn't find anything, so I ate an egg and moved on. 10 minutes later, failing once more, I again ate a community egg. After another 10 minutes of searching, Megan said that she had found my egg, and delighted by her opportunity to mock my failures =). After being pointed in the right direction, I found it in the bag of community eggs! I had been there twice and looked through the pile once without finding it. I think in the meantime I found the eggs of everyone else in the house except for 2 or 3 people. Rough morning. But Jesus was resurrected, so you might say that saved the day =) The clue was about The Office, so I promptly went to the downstairs office and found my basket. Finally! Oh candy, how I missed thee, and how my teeth hate thee with a passion.
BIG EVENTS COMING UP!!!
Just a teaser for next time, expect the amazing! On Thursday we leave for a great trip down south, and the next Tuesday we leave for a trip to Broome (the outback). I can't wait, and I should come back with some fun stories. I love you all, and miss you, especially family during Easter time, and God bless everyone!
Cheers