Good morning everyone!

On sunday a lot of the Haines, de Wit and Buchold families came over for Lunch at Maryanne and Mikes place. There was: Tante Trees, Mary-anne and Mike, Hank and Jenny, Alana and Ken, Eleanor and Isaac and us. Bert showed up later with his limousine as well. It was very nice to meet everyone and we had a great lunch and lots of fun.

The next day was a holiday in Adelaide (The Adelaide races), so everyone was free from work. We went to Moana Beach with everyone. After a couple of minutes of searching everyone we found a place to 'set up camp' on the beach.

We first went for a swim with the body boards and tried to catch some waves. It wasn't as easy as it looked but I finally managed to get it under control. Even little Eleanor got to surf on the waves (with a little help of course).

After the refreshing swim we went back to our towels and had another great lunch. It was time for some cricket afterwards and since I had never done this before I had no idea what to do. They explained me a bit of the rules and it was lots of fun. At some point we had made the sand so uneven that we couldn't play anymore so we went further towards the sea. The ball bounced a lot better there but it also rolled off into sea a couple of times. It was extremely hot as well so we decided to leave cricket for what it was and take another dive into the sea.

Bringing the body boards along again we ran in and found out the waves had gotten a bit higher. We swum further into sea to catch the bigger ones all the way back to the beach untill we noticed some black fins sticking out of the water. Upon a closer look we found out they were dolphins swimming just off the beach. There were 3 or 4 there and we got a great look of them before we were swept away by another big wave.

We got to see the dolphins once more when swimming back before we got caught by another wave but then we continued body boarding untill we got tired. Back to our little spot on the beach, packed everything in and went for icecream after saying farewell to Hank and Jenny. After the icecream it was time to say goodbye to Alana, Ken, Eleanor and Isaac as well and then we went to Tante Trees' house and said goodbye to her there.

We got back to Mary-anne and Mikes place and had a great Thai supper before heading off to bed. It had been a long and warm day so we were ready for some rest.

Jeremy