Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Vacation in WA- Day 07

Wow...so many things happened and I totally lost the momentum to blog. Just to summarize, the most major of all was probably our moving house. Yes, we have moved and are now nicely settled at our new place. Then it was CNY and so many things to prepare. Had to ready our house for CNY so that we can host and have guests over. I was craving for my own made pineapple tarts and so I was busy baking. Aidan is now attending half-day childcare so I have some time in the morning to go marketing, bake and do some housework. I have been cooking dinner everyday. Life's great but I better get on with blogging or I won't be able to remember Perth soon.


So on the morning of this day, we went to Candy Cow, the candy factory. There's a honeycomb making demonstration in the morning and when we got there, it had just started.


See the golden slabs on the table behind the glass? They're honeycomb. Aidan was quite intriqued to see the honeycomb rising and growing in a huge tub. Then when it was done and cut in to slabs, they gave us some to try....it was nice and warm and it melted in the mouth.

Aidan riding on a wooden cow rocker


I think Aidan must have missed the presence of kids very much after being with just mommy n daddy for so many days. He was quite excited to see children and tried to 'mingle' lol.


Lunch Time! Olives! I never knew they look like this fresh. I've only seen the black rings on pizza and the pickled green ones in Martinis. Hehe...sounds like the story of kids nowadays who didn't know eggs had shells? I didn't really like eating this but DH seemed to enjoy it.

We had lunch at a winery estate, Lamont's and the prices on the menu were just exhorbitant! And also the menu was quite confusing to read. It doesn't say which are appetisers, starters or mains. I later realised that some people would order a full 3-course meal and most at least a 2-course. In Singapore, we would usually order just a main course each and maybe an appetiser to share if there are more people around. So we ended up with a tuna on skewers and some fried squid thingy (both starters!) haha....both were so delicious and we were all hungry for more!

A still hungry daddy.

In the end, we went to the supermarket and bought food back to our cottage to cook! Meat was cheap and we had BBQ beef and lamb. All our accomdation so far came equipped with a gas grill outside for our use. No pictures cos I refused to go outside to be irritated by the flies.
Aidan chilling on the couch in his PJs.