The Patrick Family: It's been a while....!

Hi everyone!

It's been a while since we last posted anything. We have had so many visitors it's been busy busy! Sylvia, Iain's mum was here for 3 weeks until the end of February and it was lovely having her. She had a great time getting to know Amelia.

While Sylvia was here, James also arrived to stay with us for 3 months. He met Zoe at Christmas and has returned to spend some time with her. Zoe lives in Stirling and has 2 kids, Amelia (another one!) and Mitchell.

Iain has been flying around the country visiting his colleagues in each of the states, so far he has been to Brisbane and Perth and goes to Melbourne this week, happily he is in town during the Grand Prix and has been invited by Allianz so he is looking forward to that and seeing his mates. He was also taken to the Clipsal 500 at the beginning of March. The Clipsal is a V8 Supercars race that happens every year in the East End of the City. The Adelaide Fringe Festival is also on during the month of March so Adelaide is buzzing. The Fringe is like the Edinburgh Festival, music, comedy, dance, arts and lots of exciting events. Comedians and artists come from all over the world and there's a lot of British comedians in town. We have booked to see the Scottish comedian Danny Bhoy again this year as he's so funny and we're also going to a night of comedy at the Zoo. I'm really looking forward to that.

So we're getting back to normal now and back into 'normal' life. Iain is enjoying his job and although it's Adelaide Cup and a public holiday today he has to work as they are a national company so will be still taking calls from interstate where it's a normal working day. However it means he gets a day off another time and we are off to Kangaroo Island for a long weekend just after Easter. The island is beautiful and unspoilt, it's a 90 minute car journey to Cape Jervis to the Ferry Terminal and then 45 minutes on the Ferry so not far to go. We have just bought a new car. A Subaru Outback which is all wheel drive so we get to go exploring off road and the boot is huge, just perfect for getting all of Amelia's paraphenalia in!!
Here is a recent video of Amelia on her playmat.

Here's some photos from the last month or so...

This was taken on our trip to the Barossa at Maggie Beer's Farm Shop. Amelia was put out that she couldn't have any of Maggie's beautiful ice cream so she was having a whinge...

This is the new car we have bought to replace my little Daewoo, which was miles too small for me now with a baby seat and pram etc. We are delighted with it and would recommend this car to anyone! It's a Subaru Outback

We discovered this beach on our travels down the Peninsula and it was so beautiful we had to go down and have a dip. This is Amelia's first official beach visit, she's the one you can't see in the pram!!