September and October 2010

Well after such a boring title to this Blog Post one might expect the last two months to have been a bit on the boring side too. Especially compared to our first eight plus months living in Europe. Of course that has not been the case. We have had many many visitors, a trip to Amsterdam and our first really full blown Halloween.

Our guests included Trish Murphy, my wonderful friend from Williamstown, Melbourne, a Chinese Exchange Student - also called Lucy!, who stayed with us for a week (she is our Lucy's exchange buddy and hopefully Lucy will go to Shanghai for a week late April and early May 2011). We then had the Giorgini family from Melbourne also. Lots of
fun for the girls having extra girly company and someone to carve pumpkins with.



We had three days in Amsterdam recently, staying on a house boat. Chris and Lucy went to the Anne Frank Museum and we all enjoyed several hours at the Van Gogh museum. What an amazing collection of art, not just Van Gogh but mostly. Amsterdam was so easy to get to and get around. Very cosmopolitan. And of course I got a glimpse of what I might have missed out on by not going there at 20 years of age!


Halloween was fun and made more so going to a party with lots of other enthusiastic Halloween experts. We dressed up as Chinese Girl (see Ada above), a Vampish Vampire with a giant Dragon Tattoo on her back (Lucy not me!), a Witch and the Joker. The girls also went out to the American area for some Trick or Treating. I cant wait to we have finished all those lollies!

And finally Autumn is almost over; a few big winds this week and our beautiful trees are bare. I hope you enjoy some pics of same.





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