Jun 02 2009
A night in Fremantle…..
Hi everyone!
Well wasn’t that Convention Project Parade lots of fun? I had a blast with showing you all the projects from my display board at Convention, as well as reading all your fabulous answers to questions, and then giving away all that FUN blog candy! My head is still spinning!
Anyway yesterday was a Public Holiday here in Perth. I had a relaxing day stamping, and pottering around, which was just lovely. We decided to take the kids out for dinner, into Fremantle which is the town right on the wharf. I actually lived there, and went to Uni there back years back. It is has lots of old buildings and the best restaurants! Very multi-cultural and laid back. Anyway we went to a new Aussie restaurant called Outback Jacks……which was quite the experience!
After dinner we managed to go for a nice walk along the wharf to see the boats. I managed to capture this picture of the kids, which I think turned out rather neat, with their back turned. It is a shame you can’t really see the boats in the distance, but it is rather dark.
As you can see everyone is wearing jackets! It was the first day of winter, and boy did it strike! After our night in Freo, we just managed to get back to the car, and wham down came the rain. We actually got caught in a massive front, with lightning everywhere, and the rain coming down so hard and fast that we could only drive 20km’s an hour because you couldn’t see out the windscreen! We were all a bit nervous! There were lots of cars that actually pulled over onto the side of the road to keep safe. It lasted the whole 40 minutes drive home!
So my plans to upload the Make it Monday were sidelined when we got home, because I needed to pull all the plugs out of the wall. Our house because it is up on the side of a hill, has a tendency to get struck by lightning. I have had 2 modems get fried with it before and a spark fly out of the computer about 1 foot! So i am very vigilant about pulling everything out of the sockets when there is lightning going on.
Anyway, it has passed now, and the sun is shining……hopefully we have a mild winter this year!
Be back with the Make it Monday, in just a mo!
Hi Keesh,
I don’t envy u one bit being in the car in all that stormy weather last nite! It was shocking!! We had some of the loudest thunder and brightest lightning that I have seen for a long time here. But I’m glad that you all got home safe and dry and that ur house didn’t get struck by lightning.
Richelle
xx