Where to start...

(Picture: Henk Jan and Paula's house)

Even though it's only been a few days since our last update, those days are starting to feel like a right blur already! We've been up to quite some things and will try to stay a bit structural during the following lines!

We've been to Perth!
Josh picked us up the day right after he told us he would, and he took us to the University of Western Australia first. We walked the campus and were stunned by the way it looked. We felt like we were in a zoo, surrounded by exotic gardens, colourful birds and little ponds. Then we went back to Josh' car where his girlfriend, Renee, was waiting for us already. They were both very nice and first took us to China Town, where we had dinner in the Vietnamesian (?) restaurant Saigon. The waitresses sucked, they didn't bother where they dropped our plates as long as they were on the correct table. After this we went to King's Park, with a panoramic view over Perth. (Picture: Josh and Renee)

Us and Perth Skyline

The same afternoon we lived a historical moment: we did our first Aussie shopping trip on our own at Woolworth's (even though we only got chips and coke).

The day after we had a look at Henk Jans work. He is making antennas. It looked well confusing but he explained it very nicely and gave us a good impression of how Aussie people work. The following night made us realize exactly where we are: in a country full of big ass motherf*cking spiders! At the top of our bed, in the corner, t here was a Huntsman spider watching us with his horrible eight eyes and clicking his megajaw. Ok, one guess who caught it! Wrong! It was Berrie! Paul stood there with shaky knees but Berrie got a beer jug and placed it right over the spider, moving it to the table, closed safely with the heavy Lonely Planet on top of it.

In mean time we've been to Midland Shopping Gate twice. It's a huge mall with over 120 stores where we already have our favourite lunchroom (Muffin Break). Other i nteresting purchases: an Aeroguard anti-insect roll-on thing, a huuuuge bottle of sunlotion (it IS hot here! Here it is) anddddd Jennifer Lopez latest effort on singing - Brave (Paul wants to point out very clearly that it was Berrie who bought this)! (Picture: Berrie at Muffin Break)



This weekend we're experiencing a traditional and local fest: Spring in the Valley. It's a two day celebration of the wineries, and you can hop on and off busses from winery to winery to taste different wines. We've been filling our glasses quite a lot, and finished the first day of it with a nice barbecue at Josh' parents place. Today we'll enjoy some more exclusive wines (a bottle costs $20.-). (Picture: Spring in the Valley at Windy Creek winery)



Now we're off to lay in the garden, enjoying the sun. We hope the weather's nice in Europe aswell. See ya mates!

The garden. Jealous? Oh and the yellow cottage is the place where we live.