Lots of Activities

The past few weeks have been full of activities and sports.  Cade experienced his first Australian sports carnival.  Sports Carnivals are big events (similar to field days) and Kindergarten got to participate for the first time.  The school is divided up into three “houses” and Cade is in Yarnold, the yellow house.  Cade was enrolled in a 50 and 100M race.  He ran the first one, but was a bit thrown off by the ready, set, go gun.  When the next race came up, Cade was not in his spot.  Matt and I searched all over the field for him and when we finally found him, he told us he opted out since he did not like the gun.  Oh, sweet boy….how in the world are you going to survive New Year’s Eve fireworks in Sydney?

This week Cade starts swimming with his class.  Speedos compulsory (mandatory)! 

We have one game left in the soccer season.  Cade and his team received their end of season trophies at “Gala Day”, a big soccer event were the teams played several games and had carnival style activities.  After the last soccer game, we went to the markets near our house for some coffee and browsing.  The markets are filled with handmade items, foods, art and fresh flowers.  Paige has agreed to always be my shopping and coffee drinking partner.

 

We have wanted to try Jamie Oliver’s Italian restaurant, so we finally headed into the city last weekend for an early family dinner.  We got there around 4:30 with a one hour wait, but somehow we walked right in.  The kids menu was on an old school red picture viewer.   It was a real treat.   By the time we left there was a line out the door and around the corner down the street.