I have really enjoyed  living on the Dalmatia Coast.

Last Sunday we went to Zlatni Rat.  The beach looked like a large V or finger.  The bottom half of the finger was for nudists! The other three quarters were nudist free. I swam in the nudist free zone.  It was 10 degrees but this did not stop me froom being in the water for 5 hours.

There is also lots of seafood on Brac.  Dad bought three live squid last night.  He cut their eye balls out.  It was disgusting but they tasted great! on the way home from Zlatni Rat we went to a restaurant run by Za Za and her son.  They made the best garlic'n'fish soup and pasta. YUMMMMO!!!



n Tuesday we went to Supetar and there were MASSIVE water slides We had dinner in Split. We had the biggest pizza in the world.


and paddle boats with slides on the top.

Yesterday we had a day off school and went looking for a house.  We found an awesome one and the owners gave us chocolate caramels!

Off to Croatia....Part 2 of our Europe Adventure!!!!!!

A few days ago we went to the jousting festival. It was awesome! They said it would be at 8:30pm but it started at 9:45pm. Typical Italian time!!! At the end they started charging at some of the parents.

On Sunday we went to the Festa di Tulipano (festival of tulips). We had to wait for hours to see the floats that were made of tulips. They were awesome!!! One of my favourite floats was Batman.

                                                          

On the last day in Paciano we had a pizza party. Some friends came over and we watched a movie.

When we left Italy we took a car ferry to Croatia.  It took a whole night and I had to sleep on a coach with a bag as my pillow and no blankets. When we got to Split we had to take another 1 hour ferry to Brac. It had an awesome view from the top deck.  When we got there Ranko showed us our apartment.

. Brac is a little island that has loads of beaches.  We go swimming every day. Today we bought reef shoes as most of the beaches are made of stones. 

On Easter we got up and ate some giant Easter eggs that were rapped in cellophane. Then we went to have lunch at Regula and Pasquale's house. Before lunch we had an indoor Easter egg hunt.  I was the 1st to find my egg, it was taped under the chair.  Then we had 2 giant eggs each. They were delicious!!!  For lunch we had lasagna. It was delicious!!!! I can't remember what we had for dessert but it was also...... DELICIOUS!!!  Pasquale had a locked cabinet full of guns and So many bullets.He used them to hunt cinghiale (wild boar) They guns were AWESOME!!!!!

We went to Panicale on Easter Monday, Pasquetta (little Easter) and they had a cheese rolling competition. The winner is the one to roll their 4kg pecorino cheese wheel around the town. One time the pecorino banged into a car and gave it a huge dent.  Everyone cheered when it hit the car because the car should not have been there.  Cheese rolling,  Ruzzolone, is a cross between yoyoing and bowling. The players wrap a cord around the edge of the cheese wheel before flinging it around the village.  There is also a lot of loud arguing between the two teams.   In the centre of town there was lots of music and food. We  also were lucky to be there when they bashed open a "tall as you are" Easter egg. It was MASSIVE. Taller than me and probably heavier than me.   One lucky kid got to smash it open with a hammer!  We had some of the egg. The chocolate was soooo thick.  YUM!!!!! Or should I say...DELICIOUS!!!!!

At home Signora Marisa came and cooked gnocchi  with mum and Josie.  For dolce she made a gigantic strawberry cream cake. It was delicious!!! She comes every Wednesday night. She is a better cook than mum .............don't tell mum!!

 

On Saturday we caught the mini metro  (cable car) to Perugia. Perugia is a hill top town and no cars are allowed to park on the hill.  The mini metros where so small you could fit two in my room!  At Perugia we went on a carosel and we got loads of turns for €15.00.  Then we saw a man crafting guns and names out of wood.  Bailey and I got a gun that shoots rubber bands The man burnt our names on them and Italia. The girls got their names carved in wood. The man did not use pencil lines to do anything. He was so neat! 

A few days later we went to the Spring festival in Paciano (Fiera Primavera Paciano.) It was a really big event for everyone. First we got a lucky dip, then we went to get a tea strainer  for my tea leaves from Hong Kong. Finally we went to the candy man and got some licorice.  

Yesterday we went to Orvieto. We went to an underground city where they use donkeys tied to stones to crush olives to make olive oil.  People lived in these caves in 800 BC. People also sheltered here during WWII  when the town was being bombed.  The underground caves were AWESOME!!!!! After that  we climbed up a giant bell tower I told mum it wold go of soon she disagreed then suddenly  BOING BOING!!!

Because Easter is coming up we are going to make an Easter egg tree. We put a hole in the egg and blew the yolk and white out. You had to blow really hard to get it out!!

We saw one in Pienza and it was awsome! 

                                              HAPPY EASTER!! 

                                             BUONA PASQUA!!

My head is healing pretty well now and I have a black eye from my swollen cheek. Yesterday mum got home from Hong Kong.  She went to aThermomix conference  that and she got me a mug that changes color when it gets hot.

Nothing else really happened after that so I will tell you about Paris.

16th January 2013
Today we went to Perth airport and met nan and pop there.
Then we had some peanut butter sandwiches and had chocolate and mini marshmallows .  We left Perth airport and went on a QANTAS plane to Singapore. It took about 2 hours to get to Singapore and they gave us dinner.

Then we we got up at 4:30 AM and went to the airport and went on an Air France plane to
Paris. On the plane we had plane service and we got lots of food and lots of toys.
IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!

 I didn't  sleep at night because we were following the sun and it looked like day time.
When every one else woke up the breakfast trolley came and I had chocolate and coke.
After that i played on the TV'S and watched a movie. Finally we arrived in Paris saw some snow but we went past it.
Then we had to Pick up all the bags from the conveyor belt. We went to mum and dads friends (Helehn and Yarns) House.

A few days ago it was Josie’s birthday. We went to a pizzeria and we got the best pizzas (but dad's were yummier) and a coke. We went there with a boy named Josh and I went to the park and fell on to the merry-go-round and split my head open and we had to go straight to hospital

They said that I would need to get 5 stitches.  We had to wait until 7 o clock and when I got the stitches they were painful!! They had to put needles in my head!!! We didn’t bring any water so we had to buy water filled with gas. The cut even stings now!!

They stuck the bandage on my hair so dad had to take it off and put a new one on my head and not my hair. Yesterday we went to the park with my school friends and I fell on the sea saw and whacked my cheek and it got all swollen and we had to go home and put ice on it.

Yesterday was my birthday. The day before mum said I can’t get up earlier than 7 and that is when the bells ring but it was really 4:30am so I had 2 and ½ hours and it felt like night would go on forever.

When 7 finally arrived we went to mum and dad’s room and I got all my presents.  I got a Nerf gun, a cactus, a hat voucher to buy and Italian hat and The Lord of The Rings on e books. After that we had a chocolate breakfast. We had chocolate in our cereal, then hot chocolate and after that we had croissants with chocolate in them. It was the best breakfast ever!!!!!!

Then we went to the playground to meet my friends Linda and Eduardo and they got me a soccer ball that said Italy on it. We had my birthday cake with them.   When they left I played soccer with these other kids. They kept kicking the ball away from the playground and I had to jump off the wall onto to the busiest road ever about 30 times and I got cuts and bruises everywhere. The wall was about 2 meters high.

After all that we went to a pizzeria and I ordered a huge prosciutto cotto. All the others ordered  a margarite pizza and then we had a desert pizza with Nutella.    They put a candle on because it was my birthday.First Eliza blew out the candles then mum lit it up again and I blew it out.

MY 9^TH BIRTHDAY WAS AWSOME!!!!!