This was a wonderful and busy weekend of play dates and visits with new friends from school and Canada! On Saturday, while James was at school, Linton did the tennis and gymnastics thing with the boys and then entertained some friends from school with back-to-back play dates. Some memorable and tasty chocolate chip cookies, Pokemon trading, and a game of "tiggy" in the park were highlights. Very nice boys and families we would like to get to know better.
On Sunday, James and Colin wandered over - a 10 minute walk!!! - to the local public golf course, to look into the green fees and lessons for Colin. Unfortunately, it will cost $20 for James and Colin to play 9 holes of golf!!!! I think I'm in heaven. When will we ever live within a ten minute walk of $20 golf again? Needless to say, we do not have a line item for golf in our budget, but I am quickly trying to rearrange things.
After the golf course we went "next door" to the zoo to meet up with Linton and Alex and a couple from Canada - Vanessa, Andrew and Brandon and Brandon' s friend Xavier. Very nice people and great to talk "Canada" in Melbourne. We wandered through the zoo, visiting all of our favourite haunts, sharing stories about living in Australia and commiserating about the price of food and booze and learning where to get cheap food, great restaurants, and amazing coffee.
Sunday night we had our first official Caveman dinner - where cutlery, shirts, and manners were optional and we ate with our fingers, burped when we wanted to, and generally had a fun and rude time as we prepared for the closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics. As I write this it is 9:10 pm and we are somewhat patiently, a little bit sleepily, and very much happily waiting for things to start. Definitely a gold medal weekend!
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