Except for Sienna, all the visitors have returned home. Mum and dad just left about 15 minutes ago.
We went shopping and I picked up some real nice clothes for Sienna. About $100 worth.. plus some new shoes for school since her old pink flowery ones broke last week. She was so upset. I bought her some nice, warm purple boots too. They have a sheepskin type inside lining to keep her feet warm. They were only $4! Bargain! She really needed some new shoes. Poppy gave Sienna $2 and she put it in the boulles machine and won an elephant necklace which has lots of little flashing LED lights inside.
We had a ton of rain yesterday. I haven’t seen any at all since I moved in here, but yesterday it was pelting down. I tried to get a photo but it was too dark. My backyard was flooded. My front yard was flooded. Even the road on the corner near here was flooded. I wondered if dad’s car was going to make it through there but it did.
Dad’s cousin and his wife stayed overnight. They parked their caravan on the front lawn and we hooked up the juice to the house power. I scanned in the local digital TV frequencies so they could watch some TV while in the area. We tested out the GPS machine. It had a list of local petrol stations. I programmed in the closest it had but I knew there was one closer so we went there instead, all the while listening to IN 100 METRES TURN RIGHT.. IN 200 METRES CONTINUE STRAIGHT AHEAD. Why on earth they need to tell you to NOT turn is beyond me. Just say “in 500 metres turn right” instead of updates. I suppose it can be handy though.
We went to the RSL club again with them and Sienna had a fantastic time with the ton of kids in there. She didn’t even eat any dinner.. it was too exciting. There was a grabbing chocolate machine with one of those metal grabbers. A lady was in there trying to get chocolate while her kids played and Sienna found that the most exciting aspect of being in the playroom. Once bigger kids started arriving she’d had enough and came out. We left shortly after that.
This morning I printed out a ton of photos of Sienna for mum and dad to take back home with them. I gave them a photo frame to put some of them in. My Canon Pixma iP6210D does a fantastic job of printing. I bought some more photo glossy ink but didn’t need to put it in yet, even though Windows is complaining for ages about low ink. I printed out a couple of A4 sized photos as well as a bunch of the usual 6″x4″ ones. They came out really nice.
I bought myself a Texas Hold’em Poker set from a local discount shop. It was only $9.99 and has a mat, two decks, lots of chips (no fish tho!), a dealer button, a “Big Blind” button, a “Small Blind” button and a Poker chips rack.
A few days ago I found a small water fountain for only $9.99. Unfortunately it runs on batteries and runs them down fast, so I will have to get some rechargable ones. I had a bunch of rechargable ones a while back, but with all the moving etc I don’t know where they have got to. I saw a really nice seahorse fountain which is much bigger and plugs into the wall, yesterday but since I had already paid $9.99 for a fountain I didn’t want to spend another $39.99.
At Crazy Clarks discount shop now they have a very small DVD player (about the size of a book!) for $39.99. I’m tempted to get it as I need one to save booting the server every time I want to watch a movie. It even comes with a remote! It plays DVDs, MP3s, CDs and is multiregional. I might pop back today and get it. That will be 4 remotes I now have. LOL! I need a Universal Remote Control soon. It was only about 4 months ago I had no devices with remotes. Now I have: Foxtel IQ, SD Digital Set Top Box, TV. A few friends of mine have the Logitech Harmony remote which they swear by, but for me $129 is a bit much for just one remote.. for now .. maybe one day I’ll get one 
Instead, I bought dad a Sudoku handheld game which has 50,000 games in it for Father’s Day. That should keep him busy. He’s a real Sudoku addict!
Sienna has just sat down in the lounge and fallen asleep while watching Little Einsteins again. I think she’s worn out from all the visitors. She had a fun time running and hiding from poppy and teasing him. I think they both really enjoyed it a lot. I slept on the blowup airbed and got the mattress off her bed for her to sleep on. The airbed will be great in summer as it’s very cool to sleep on, but at the moment it’s too cold for her. I just laid some towels on it before putting the sheet on top and that stopped the coldness from getting into me while I slept.
I mowed the lawn yesterday morning. It had rained a little the night before, but not enough to stop me mowing. The whipper snipper ran out of string quickly though so I will need to get more of that. I’m sure I have spare string around but am not sure which cupboard I’ve stowed it away in. I figured it was best to mow the lawn while my mum and dad were here to watch Sienna for an hour. ONE HOUR! Down on the Gold Coast it took me over FOUR HOURS to mow the lawn and whipper snipper around the place. This is like paradise
I haven’t yet tried driving my car since it got repaired. I’m sure it will be fine, though. Since dad was here he wanted to go everywhere in his car, so I drove them around like a chauffer.
The other night we came home and went to get the clothes off the line. I opened the back door and found this little fella sitting on the step. He must have been waiting for the rains. I hope he survived the flood! The image is really poor since my Motorola A1000 has not got great sensors for dark photos, so I’ve enhanced it a bit with The Gimp graphics editor.
