Our New Year's Eve was relatively unspectacular. Here's a run-down in pictures:
We started our day by exploring the northern coastline of Perth. It was a little too rough too swim but quite lovely otherwise. This particular photo only took us about 45 minutes too capture. Between getting the camera to sit properly, getting everyone to stand still, making sure everyone was looking at the camera, ensuring everyone was smiling and then, of course, breaking up the fights in between each attempt, it took some time. Perfection has it's price and in this case the price was our patience.
Our evening began by going back to our old haunts where we stayed for the first month in Perth. We ventured out to a Chinese restaurant where we generally enjoyed the food. Here is Cyrus living dangerously and eating the front of the squid. I didn't know the tentacles were edible but apparantly so. Either that or the staff figured us for a bunch of dumb Canadians who didn't know anything about Chinese food. For the sake of my ego I'm going with the former.
After dinner we stopped for dessert at our favorite bubble tea place. We've had bubble tea before but nothing like this. They use all real and all fresh ingredients. Amazing.
After dinner and dessert we ventured into our old 'hood Northbridge for the local New Years extravaganza. Before we did Zaren decided to visit one of the locals. We don't think it was a real Gekko, but if it was then Zaren must have done something to stun it.
Our evening included music, some acrobats, lots of crowds, go-go dancers and some generally cheezy family-friendly activities. The entertainment, minus the music, was sub-par. So much so that we got bored and left at 11:30pm. When we got home (at 11:55pm) we watched the most amazing fireworks on TV from Sydney. Before we leave Australia we must go to Sydney for New Year's.
Fast forward to New Year's Day: Nadia, Keva and I went to the Perth Zoo. The boys decided to stay home.
A roo that was multi-tasking: napping, back scratching and flashing.
Keva is seen posing here next to a much more well behaved kangaroo. This area of the park was free-range where the animals could walk wherever they wanted. I'm also told it makes them taste better.
Q: Tyger, tyger burning bright in the forests of the night. What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?
A: Um, the cage at the zoo. And my camera, if you want to get technical.
Koala. Very cute and cuddly but they sleep for 20 hours a day. They are poor entertainers.
A couple of big, male lions right up against the glass. We were really surprised at how active and out in the open many of the animals were. It was rare that we had difficulty seeing the animals.
Although Zaren and Cyrus weren't with us at the zoo they were there in spirit. We couldn't help but to think of them when we saw these cheeky monkeys. Epic 'staches!
This has nothing to do with New Years but I thought I'd include it anyways. Not only is fruit expensive here but it appears that some of it is actually imported from the USA. Here is a lemon grown in California and an orange from the USA (also likely from California). I can't understand why they would do this when they have an amazing climate and soil to grow fruit here. We checked some other fruit too. The kiwi's are actually from New Zealand and the apples, mangoes and avocado are from Australia. Here is the proof:
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