1 post tagged “neighbourhood”

After spending the week keeping out of the way of the WYD Pilgrims, the kids and I ventured into the city on Saturday for Kung Fu and then went down to Darling Harbour to see what was going on down there.  Saturday was the day of the Pilgrim Walk across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, through the city and onto Royal Randwick Race Course.  The route passed through Darling Harbour not far from the playground we visited.  Here are some photos I took:

 

 

The kids quite liked these statues of Jesus.  You can't see from the photo but this statue actually wearing a Superman cape. 

 

 

This is the one we called Rainbow Jesus.

 

Really though, the kids much more interested in the play equipment, the icy poles and, in my son's case, GETTING WET in one of the water features!

After we got home, my husband supervised my son doing some painting and my daughter got on the computer to write emails to one of her Kung Fu friends (who she had seen only hours earlier).

 

 

The painting is actually of me! Can you see the resemblance?

 

I was supposed to be doing some painting myself (some kitchen chairs I am restoring - didn't realise what a big job it would be when I started) but couldn't be bothered. 

On Saturday night, we had been invited out to see a choir from South Africa but decided to stay home and have a quiet night watching:

 

My brother was a total Star Wars fanatic when we were kids so I had actually seen the movie a few times before.  This was the first time I was able to make sense of all that was going on though.  My kids had never seen it and my son in particular was fascinated.   

Yesterday was a pretty quiet day.  I did some cooking and baking and my son and I took Mollie the dog for a walk.

This is around the corner from our house (Mollie not able to walk much further than just around the block these days):

 

We started watching Dr Who last night but the kids got too scared of the red-eyed Ood so we had to switch it off.

 

 

I am back at work today feeling very relaxed and refreshed after my week.  I am sure that won't take too long to change!