Day 16 - Albany WA
Sunday, June 10, 2012 at 04:10AM Well today was an interesting day, Annie slept well last night, she is really dealing with this caravan lifestyle well. We had no idea how she or we would cope all travelling & living together, but so far it has been very tolerable. Sure she still wakes some nights, but usually it is just for a quick feed & then straight back to sleep.
Today we went to the Boatshed markets & guess what? Some of the same people that were at the farmers market were there! There were a couple of different stalls, one selling candles…. But Ness reminded me that candles in a caravan are not very practical! And another stand selling fresh waffles, so that settled it, Ness had waffles with chocolate, nuts & ice cream, I had waffles with blueberries…..Nice way to start the day off.
The foreshore in Albany is quite impressive, like most coastal towns they have put some money into making it an attractive & friendly place to visit, the Boatshed where the markets were is an impressive modern building that also is used for boat & equipment storage. Outside there is this cute little man made beach with sand that goes all the way down to the water, I can imagine it would be very popular in summer.
Speaking of which it is very un summerlike here today, we got in & out of the markets before it started to rain, and we then drove down to the old whaling station which is now called “Whaleworld” we had planned to go through & have a look, but as it was pouring with rain and part of the tour is outside we decided to do it another time. We spent a bit of time driving along the coastal road before heading back to the caravan park for a quiet afternoon.
Ness asked me to stop at the office as she needed some coins for the clothes dryer, when she returned to the car she said that the park manager had said that there was a severe weather warning for this afternoon, rain & wind gusts of up to 120km/h. He suggested that if we had an awning on the van to put it up as things could get ugly. So we returned to the van and immediately set about packing up the awning & anything else that could blow away.
Reader’s Comments
Marg & Norm tried to explain to Annie why we are so pleased when she sleeps, Thanks M&N sure makes us realise how lucky we are.
Kirstin & Edward wrote to Annie, thanks Edward, nice to know you are all still thinking of Annie. Annie looks forward to hanging out at downtown YG daycare in the future…apparently it is the cool place to be. J
Annie’s Blog
Must have been good in my sleep again last night, coz dad said I was a good girl when he got me out of my cot this morning.
We have this system now where when we all wake up together Dad comes to get me & say hello, then he takes me to mum & he gets ready to go to the shower. When he is in the shower mum gives me some breakfast & she has some too, then Dad comes back from the shower & Mum gets ready & goes to the shower. Me & Dad usually play while Mum is in the shower, Dad makes really loud silly noises that I think he is too embarrassed to make when Mum is around…… But it is a lot of fun & our system works well.
We went to another market today…..Boring again! Although at this one there was a guy singing and playing his guitar, it made me happy & want to dance.
We then went to this place called Whale world, I was hoping we could go & see some whales, but Mum & Dad said it was too wet so we would do it another time. Some days my Mum & Dad are really soft!
Tomorrow we are moving the box on wheels to a different place, Yaaaaaay! I hope they don’t have any Markets there!
Love from AnnieInAVan
Reader Comments (2)
Yum - fresh waffles...
Your storm made it to news in NZ - glad to see you didn't end up in Kansas!
Nathan is not home yet but he is certainly on his way after spending Friday night and Saturday on Norfolk Island. A couple of the crew decided they had had enough and flew home from Norfolk - alas NOT Nathan - he is a glutton for punishment. Am expecting him most likely on Wednesday sometime.
Hey team
you didn't miss much at Whalewrold - went there a few years back and it actually depressed me! Glad to see you're surviving the storms - looks great on the news.
Looking forward to the next load of pics xxxxxx