Mid-winter skies...

After all the fun we had in Bathurst, we took a weekend off last week to try and recuperate (and clean), though it does seem that all that cleaning resulted in both girls suffering from a cold or flu for most of the week. 

To the extreme that Claire needed to spend a day off school, and came to work with dad to experience a day of working in the City.  It seems she thinks it all good... plenty of good food, trips to the cafe and sweets.  She's all set to start her working life now.

This weekend, we spent Saturday morning getting our car window fixed, and visiting grandma & grandad who've just come back from a holiday in Singapore.  We then spent most of the evening at the Bastianon's enjoying a shabu-shabu feast.

Sunday, we thought we'd have a nice relaxing day, enjoying the nice blue sky while we could.  So we headed out to Dural to play Putt Putt.

After Putt Putt, and some lunch in a local cafe, we decided we hadn't quite had enough of the blue skies yet, so we drove over to Maroubra to further our relaxing day.

The best thing about beaches in winter is you get almost the entire beach to yourself!

After the beach, we went into Darling Harbour to meet some family from Surabaya, who are visiting for a short holiday...