Big weekend

First up; another party. This one was the mothers' group birthday held at Ku-ring-gai Bicentennial Park. The weather was lovely, the playground is fenced, and the tables are sheltered. One of the mums arrived early to lay the tablecloth (thereby claiming a table). There were chocolate cake, cupcakes and fairy bread, party hats and blowers, as well as some nice crudités and dip. The kids lined up nicely on the park bench in front of the spread, and waited (mostly) patiently while the parents took lots of photos.




We all contributed pressies, kris-kringle style, and Louka received a wheeled suitcase full of play-dough and modelling tools! One of the other kids got the same present, and Louka grabbed both suitcases and trundled them around the park.


After a quick shop, we headed to the Blue Mountains for the Blackheath Growers' Market. We stayed at my parents' place, where Louka has visited a couple of times before. This time she decided she would walk Trishy and Johnny down towards Govett's Leap lookout. There she found a hollow tree, and did a bit of bush-bashing.


In the morning, it was off to the markets. Unfortunately there were no duck sausages (the duck sausages are delicious). But there were fresh apples, beans and quinces, smoked trout, and saltbush lamb sausages which we haven't tried before. My parents also found some passionfruit butter that Louka liked very much.

Headed home at noon to beat the traffic, then Graham did a lot of packing and I did the mowing. We were both more tired than Louka.