OMG! I just read my cousin Robert's Yenblog and there will be three new additions to the Yen clan before the year is out!!! My sister is due any day now with her second child, and my cousin Grace is due with her first sometime in August. Then my cousin Robert's wife is due with her second sometime in September!!! Not to mention that towards the end of last year, babies Jordan Phillip and Renee joined the family!!! Next thing I'll probably find out that one of my girlfriends is preggers!!! :-) It seems like everyone wants to have a golden little piggy! :-) Well, it's great news all around :-)
Well, I just had a lovely weekend! :-) First I went shopping with Petra and her mum...and all us girls know how terribly draining it is to go shopping!!! I was very good and didn't buy anything as I have reached my spending budget this month already! Actually, on Friday I spent a chunk of money on booking a flight to London for this coming weekend and also booked myself into a weekend course to be certified in "Teaching English as a Foreign Language". I'm not sure I will actually use this certification for anything, but it is a start on the road to my vocation - which is to educate, to teach.
I spent Saturday evening in a village called Muotathal, which is where Petra grew up and where her dad's family still lives. We spent maybe two and a bit hours playing with her little brothers who are 2.5yrs and 4yrs old. And by the time we put them to bed by 8.30pm I was totally exhausted and felt like going to bed myself!! hahah....Instead I stayed up watching some tv show I couldn't understand a word of!! :-)
Muotathal is the kind of place where busy people like Sydneysiders would take a weekend-away break to. To be in a nice little house, with a fireplace perhaps, surrounded by snow-capped mountains and a great river which runs through the village. In the evening, the skies are so clear and the stars oh-so-bright! It was really nice to get away for part of the weekend :-)
On Sunday morning Petra and I took her little brothers Levin and Micha to an animal park where you can feed the deers. Petra's older brother Cornel joined us also. For the first time I saw a reindeer...well, I think it was a reindeer as I just googled it! It was the first time I had seen an animal with huge antlers! It was pretty cool!!! There were heaps of deer around and I also saw the Billy Goats Gruff :-) hehe...The coolest thing I saw however were some bears!!! They were just awesome!! Petra said they were brown bears, and their fur was a very light brown in colour!!! They were bloody massive!!! I took some pretty good snaps as they came to sit on some rocks which were only about 2-3 meters away from where we were. There was some water separating the bears from us!
About 3-4 hours at the zoo with kids is pretty draining...actually more than half an hour with any kid that is awake is very draining!!! :-) But it was a lot of fun and I would do it again, though perhaps not that often :-)
I wonder how many more babies will rain down on me by the time I head home to Sydney? :-)
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