End of school



The end of the school year has arrived at Broome Primary. The kids have had another great year there and have had heaps of great experiences. The end of year concert was fantastic. Another warm night out under the boabs! Ruby and Darcy helped to compare the night and did a great job.

Tracey worked with the kinder kids and loved it.

We're 11!!!!!!!

A couple of weeks ago Darcy and I turned 11! I got some great presents including a pair of jodhpurs and boots for horse riding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was great to have Nanny up here for our birthday and we spent the afternoon at town beach just chillin'.
We decided to have a birthday party this year with all our broome friends. It took place at the Amphitheatre at Cable Beach and there were about 30 of our friends. Mum did a great job with the food and dad did well with organising the games with us, the games we played included; a scavenger hunt, dress up relays, tunnel ball and just soccer and footy. The dress up relays were particularly funny with the boys running around in bras and girls falling over in hiking boots!
I'd just like to thank all my friends and family for their lovely birthday wishes and presents

Birdwood downs

On the long weekend Dad and I went to a station called Birdwood Downs to go horse riding. I first rode a horse called Mighty Mouse then I rode a horse called Pajho (the bay one at the top) for the next two days. Dad rode a VERY steady horse called Nenia. We went on heaps of trail rides and also rode on the original Gibb River track which hasn't been used for 60 years. It was very hot and wet and we did alot of sweating but it was still nice eating marshmallows by the camp fire. We were the only people there in the campsite and we were right next to the horse paddock so it was very nice getting woken up by the whinnying of horses and feeding them your carrots at dinner time.

The people were very nice and they let me help feed, brush, tack up and of course ride their horses.

by Ruby

End of School!!!!

Our end of year concert was held in the school grounds under the boabs and was like fully sick!!!! We also had an end of year disco, which was totally rad!!!! Mum seems really happy that the school year is finished and she is also on holidays.

Ruby

Photographic competition

Ruby and Darcy went to a photographic program down at Reddells beach.

Rube won first prize in the wildlife category with her piece titled "Reddell's beach is bloomin beautiful". Here she is pictured at the display at the boulevard shopping centre with Grace who is obviously blown away by the beauty of the photograph. Ruby won her picture printed onto a canvas frame.

Darcy won third prize in the landscapes with his picture "Reddells beach rocks" and won a snorkelling set.

Pearl Bay Dancing Concert

Ruby and Anna performed beautifully in the Pearl Bay dancing concert.

Ruby has been training hard in her acrobatic class and her group cartwheeled, tumbled and jumped all over the stage and were clearly the best act of the night (equal with Annas of course).

Anna and her mates did an interpretation of "Kung Fu Fighting" and "Bear Necessity" very competently.

Hi from Ruby

Hi, what up everyone?

My stay in broome so far is crusin' and I've been playing netball(this is my famous netball pose)and I'm about to play soccer I also might start acrobats.

I had a great holidays with my cousin Grace ,we went on a sun-set camel ride, went to to the beach lots and drank heaps of mango smoothies!!!!

I'm starting to train to be part of the dragon for the Shinju festival, it should be lots of fun.

If you want to send me a letter send it to:

P.O BOX 1775 BROOME 6725 WA

Love Ruby

Back in school

We are in Broome for 6 months, so the kids have agreed to go back to school. They are in their second week at Broome primary and are loving it (compared with us teaching them).

Rube and Darce are in the same class in grade 4 and Anna is in grade 1.

The school is beautiful and green and has alot more real grass than Coburg Primary.

School runs from 8am til 2pm, so there is still plenty of time for the beach after school. We live virtually across the road, which means that we will probably be late quite often.

Ruby’s toilet report

Since I last spoke to you things have improved on the toilet front. I have had the pleasure of using a flush toilet in Merredin. However when I went back to the long drops it took a few days to stop turning around to look for the button!

I've seen perhaps the best long drop on the trip so far at Cape Range National Park. Here are the rules. Open the lid and clean the bowl with disinfectant, then do what you came to do, then clean the bowl with disinfectant again and hey presto - a nice smelling long drop! Something that I didn't think was possible!

Ruby thorn

Ruby & Darcy are 10!!!

How did that happen so quickly! On the 9th of April those two little babies suddenly became quite big. We had roast lamb for dinner and they got more presents than thet deserve.

Ruby gets another horse ride

Ruby was very lucky to have a ride in Northam. Tasma who is a sonographer at Northam kindly organised it for her.

Toilets of my travels - Ruby Thorn

I'm overly impressed and horrified at the toilets I have seen on this trip. Some of my favourites have been at Port Lincoln, Eucla and Esperance. These were the flushing variety and were well maintained. The longdrops are normally very very stinky. Sometimes the bowl is very narrow and people tend to make a horrible mess. Once someone left a used nappy in the toilet! You know about the longdrop, now let me tell you about the dreaded short drop. I've only met one of them (at Cactus beach) and I never want to have that experience again. It is like pooing in a bucket and your bum is 15 cm away from someones poo. Then you pour some lime in and it all dries up!

In summary the toilets have been greviously disgusting!

Ruby Thorn

Rubys first cigarette

When we were in Denmark we were having a picnic lunch when Ruby stepped on a bee. Fortunately Julie Vallee was there to witness the incident. Apparently a cigarette can cure the pain of a bee sting. She pulled out a cigarette and lit it and passed it to Ruby (she was horrified!). Darcy was most suprised when he looked over from his soccer match (Fabrice & Duncan won 10-8) to see his sister with a smoke in her hand. To her brothers relief Ruby held the cigarette as close to the bee sting as possible. The pain disappeard!

Ruby and Darcy

Rubys moonlight horseride 1/3

While we were staying at Parry beach some horseriders came to use the BBQ near the beach after they had had a horse ride. It didn't work so we lent them our gas cooker. After dinner when it got dark they offered me a horse ride on the beach. There was a beautiful full moon and it was a nice still night. The horse was called Jack and he was a brown / black and 15 hands. I didn't get back to the caravan until 10 o'clock because I also got to load him onto the horse float.

Ruby

Port Lincoln "tunarama"

I entered my first tuna toss competition at tunarama. Imagine my surprise after training with the big 500g tins to find that they expected us to toss a 20kg monster. I employed the "hammer throw" technique which seemed to be de riguer among the tuna tossers only to find that only weighing a little bit more than the tuna I quickly became disorientated and a bit unsteady. Fortunately the throw was a foul and I didn't have to go through the humiliation of having my throw measured, which I am sure was well short of most of the women.

The crowd seemed to enjoy it.

Ruby and Darcy did well in the prawn toss and were up near the top of their groups.

Victor Harbour, Port Elliot, Deep Creek Con.Park

Very hot! Ruby, Darcy and Anna did their first days school. And enjoyed the air conditioned comfort of the museums in Victor Harbour.

Street party

Time to empty the house

Last Gynkhana for Ruby

Hi it's Ruby.....again. These are some pictures of me at my Gymkana. The picture of me on the horse is when we did smartest on parade and I came first!

In the other picture I'm sitting next to my friend Nicole.

I'll miss my horses and horse riding friends.