Outing and Surprise for Joe

Today we drove an hour to Royal National Park to meet up with the Temasek Members. By the time we reach there we were 15 mins late but the rest of the people were not there. After a while the people started rolling in. In the end, my family sat down for breakfast but we were busy attending to the kids so we did not really mingle with the rest. They left for canoeing after breakfast and we went to play at the playground. The food was quite nice. Children had toast with eggs and hot chocolate and Joe and I had full breakfast. His is vegetarian while mine was the standard ones with fried potatoes, bacon, eggs, sauages. Nice and I got to share with Joe.

After playing at the playground, we drove to Garie beach. It is a very beautiful beach. The beach is famous being a surfers' paradise. The waves are always very strong and the scenery is beautiful. I sat on the beach to read newspaper and Joe brought the children down at the beach to play with the upcoming tides. They even built sandcastles on the beach. After about an hour play, we were about to go when the tide brought in a rubber-like jelly-fish. The blue bottle stung Chantz and he felt a sharp pain. We went to seek the life guard help and everyone was surprised to see that had happened. The life guard applied Sting medicine on Chantz and we made the trip back to the toilets. Half way back I went back and took a picture of the jelly fish. Will show all of you the picture. It really look like a rubber toy - harmless looking.

After bathing, we drove back home. It was a longer drive as we had driven further in into Royal National Park. When we reached home, I quickly went to prepared lunch. I cooked spagetti as I had the sauce ready last night and I just had to cook the spaghetti. Lunch was eaten at about 3pm and we even did the laundry.

About 4 plus, Joe started to prepare his outfit for tonight's function. To his surprise, he could not find his leather shoes. After searching the whole house, I told him I would accompany him to get a new pair. He reluctantly agreed and on the way, he even said that if he could not get a new pair, he would call to say something cropped up at home. Luckily Joe went to his university award giving function tonight as he called just now to tell me that the university had given him an award - the award for research excellence. Good for him that he is given the recognition. He had been trying very hard to do his research. Sometimes I think the family might be a bit of distraction to him. He used to go office early in the morning at 7am and leave at about 6plus. Now with us around, he goes to school at 9 plus and leave early at 3 or 4 plus.
Maybe to tell him to go early to school as usual and leave the children to me. They are actually quite happy to go school and getting them to school is not a problem.

Okay I am feeling rather tired so would like to retire for the night. Today we even participated in the earth day- The Sydney lights-off for an hour event. After the one hour I really appreaciate the convenience of having electricity. Must really switch off power of all the applicances when not in use.