Every year there's a festival organized that's called "The Perth Royal Show". It's like a fair complete with a midway, rides, mini-donuts, dog/cow/cat displays, inappropriate t-shirts and abnoxious crowds. On Saturday Zaren and Cyrus went with their friends. On Sunday, Nadia and I brought Keva and her friend and went our seperate ways. We stayed as long as we could before we left the girls there and went to a beach cafe.
People wandering aimlessly through the crowd without any direction or purpose and a little nauseous from the combination of rides and junk food. It's like the zombie apocalypse with a carnival soundtrack.
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Speaking of royalty, the AFL (Australian Football League) season is over and a champion has been crowned. The AFL is the big sport in Australia and the "Grand Finals" are a little like their Superbowl/Stanley Cup. This year the Sydney Swans upset the Hawthorne Hawks in the final to capture a trophy with a name that is unknown to me. Actually, as far as Aussie sports go AFL is pretty good. I actually had a chance to go to a game this year but, unfortunately, we were away during the time that I was invited. Maybe next year. Both teams based in Perth, the West Coast Eagles and Fremantle Dockers, made the playoffs. So, that was a nice change for us.
Now that the season is over all sporting eyes shift to Cricket. Ugh. I think Monty Python summed up the sport best (complete with Italian sub-titles):
My apologies to anyone out there that loves cricket, but really it has to be the most ridiculous sport ever invented.
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The school term is over and the kids now have two weeks off of school before they begin the last term of the year. The weather is also starting to change. Spring has sprung. Today in Perth it will be in the mid 30's. Yesterday it was in the high 20's. The days are getting longer and warmer and the beach is starting it's siren song. Also, the bugs and lizards are coming out. We don't mind the lizards too much although they have a habit of being where you don't want them (example: washing machine). The bugs are everywhere and irritating, however. Speaking of reptiles, we had our first snake sighting on Friday. We were at a beach and it went across our path. We don't know what it was but it was small and brown. Considering that Australia has the highest number of venemous snake species in the world, I'm guessing that it wasn't deadly but only mildly dangerous.
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The hunt for a new home continues. We have seen a couple of options and we're looking at a couple more this week. Of course, they are either too small, too expensive, too far from school or too run down. But there are some decent, but expensive, options. The biggest issue is that our current lease expires November 1. At present, all but one property that we are looking at are available now. If we try to lease one now we have to try to get out of our current lease which may or may not be easy depending on if there is someone who is ready to move into our current abode. If we wait, we take the chance that there may not be any decent properties available. However, just about every week a new property comes on the market that is decent. So I think we'll be okay.
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