Thursday, February 18, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Tycoon?!
"Mummy which drawing do you like best?"
"That one"
"OK, you can have it for thirty dollars."
WTF?!
"Mummy we're making toys with the play doh."
"Look what I made, it's a fox."
"We can take it to shop later and sell it to the other kids who need to buy toys"
Huh?!
"That one"
"OK, you can have it for thirty dollars."
WTF?!
"Mummy we're making toys with the play doh."
"Look what I made, it's a fox."
"We can take it to shop later and sell it to the other kids who need to buy toys"
Huh?!
Friday, February 5, 2010
Roadhouses
Personally I prefer Italian cooking to French but when it comes to roadhouses the Germans, Swiss and Austrians have it all over the French and the Italians.
Soups, awesome juices, grills, veges, fresh breads, espresso, hot chocolate and barely a chip in sight.
Mmmmmm....... I feel hungry just thinking about it.
Soups, awesome juices, grills, veges, fresh breads, espresso, hot chocolate and barely a chip in sight.
Mmmmmm....... I feel hungry just thinking about it.
Salzburg
We took a carriage ride in Salzburg.
Bee was excited. No, really, he was.
OMG Ponies!!!They cuddle. I want to take them home.
Lucerne
My favourite thing in Lucerne was watching fat little ducks digging around in the bottom of the lake and then popping up like corks but I didn't get any photos of them.
Bee liked the really aggro swan...
Bee liked the really aggro swan...
Liechtenstein
We went to Austria via Liechtenstein.
We had a look at the woods.....
dropped by the Schloss to say hi to the Prince...
and admired the horses with the giant shiny rumps in front of the government building.
Since we had no money to launder there wasn't much else to do on a Sunday in Liechtenstein so we left.
We had a look at the woods.....
dropped by the Schloss to say hi to the Prince...
and admired the horses with the giant shiny rumps in front of the government building.
Since we had no money to launder there wasn't much else to do on a Sunday in Liechtenstein so we left.
I did it :(
I dropped my little man off a chairlift.
The lift got going and Y5 wasn't quite on, it very quickly became obvious that if I didn't drop him now that I would have to drop him from higher up so he let go and I dropped him. He was such a soldier!! He fell about 1.5 meters and screamed for me and then hoped on and rode up 2 chairs behind with someone else.
We went for a hot chocolate and then caught another lift just to reassure ourselves that we could.
The lift got going and Y5 wasn't quite on, it very quickly became obvious that if I didn't drop him now that I would have to drop him from higher up so he let go and I dropped him. He was such a soldier!! He fell about 1.5 meters and screamed for me and then hoped on and rode up 2 chairs behind with someone else.
We went for a hot chocolate and then caught another lift just to reassure ourselves that we could.
No TV, few toys.... loving it!!
When we left Australia I was a bit worried about how we would cope with no TV and barely any toys but we're loving it. The boys are using their imagination more than ever and improvising all sorts of crazy scenarios with their limited resources.
Today Yasin has made a gun from a coat-hanger to protect Imran the baby elephant from poachers and now they're skiing together to the North Pole on a green run. I suspect that Imran will be the first elephant on skis and surely he's the first elephant to ski to the North Pole.
We have a few DVDs for the laptop and get them out maybe once a week (if that) and since they hardly ever see them they're riveted to the screen and on the occasions that I download something new they ask heaps of questions and consume it much less passively than before.
I'm thinking of leaving the toys and TV in storage when we move back to Australia.
I've long suspected that having too many toys is not doing them any favours and now I'm sure. They have some lego that their Grandfather gave them and they use it constantly to build all sorts of objects - whatever their latest interest they can build it with leggo so they can keep their leggo but all the plastic crap that has only one function can go.
Today Yasin has made a gun from a coat-hanger to protect Imran the baby elephant from poachers and now they're skiing together to the North Pole on a green run. I suspect that Imran will be the first elephant on skis and surely he's the first elephant to ski to the North Pole.
We have a few DVDs for the laptop and get them out maybe once a week (if that) and since they hardly ever see them they're riveted to the screen and on the occasions that I download something new they ask heaps of questions and consume it much less passively than before.
I'm thinking of leaving the toys and TV in storage when we move back to Australia.
I've long suspected that having too many toys is not doing them any favours and now I'm sure. They have some lego that their Grandfather gave them and they use it constantly to build all sorts of objects - whatever their latest interest they can build it with leggo so they can keep their leggo but all the plastic crap that has only one function can go.
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