We may be on the other side of the world but recently we seem to be having a pretty good run of meeting up with people we know, mum and dad, my aunt and uncle, Dirk the campervan man and today the Oldhams. I worked with John O at school in Southampton but since then he and has family have emigrated out here. We met up with John and his boys at the aquarium (good job since it was bucketing down with rain!) They may only have been down under since Christmas but already I would say they are well on their way to being authentic Aussies. Jack and George have almost got the surfer dude hairstyle (it’s growing in nicely), they know all about the many dangerous animals down here and they’ve even had a few visit them in their garden. They maybe haven’t quite got the accent just yet but John’s got a ute and the boys love fishing (you can’t get more Australian than that!) They certainly seem to be enjoying the lifestyle down here and it was fab to see them so well settled. Of course I was completely smitten with little cheeky chappie Oscar again and wanted to steal him (I did try but he cried so I gave him back!)
Like the locals that they are they left us with a reccomendation to check out the cheesecake shop. Now usually Si loves his cheesecake but we have not been impressed with the Australian’s take on it. However, tonight all that changed, turns out that cheesecake from the cheesecake shop is to die for delicious. What a shame we are leaving Australia for good in a just a few short days (I wonder how much cheescake we could fit in before then).