Avon Valley NP

This weekend was all about my lovely friend Katja. She turned 39 but more importantly she passed her Australian Law degree! Doing your degree twice is fantastic but doing it with two small children at home is  just amazing! It called for a celebration and we went to Juanita's a quirky little tapas place in Subiaco. It's very small and in the back of an art shop. The boys and us all stayed over at Katja's house for convenience (and sharing the baby sitter). The next morning Katja said: "Shall we go camping?" I needed to get my head round it for 5 minutes but then I thought, well, why not! So we quickly went home to get all our gear and we headed off to the Avon Valley National Park, about an hours drive from Perth. There's nothing to do there and we were hoping to be able to make a fire because it's definitely getting cooler now. When we arrived the fire ban was still in place. That was disappointing but we had plenty warm clothes and it wasn't that bad, really.. around 12 degrees. We found a great spot on Bald Hill, a hill of granite (hence bald) and lots of granite rocks to climb on. The kids had a ball, they were busy building dens and doing some dinosaur role play. Katja and I read our books in the sunshine on the rocks with a lovely view and we all had an early night (compared to the night before.. it was very welcome actually :)
The next day we found ourselves above the cloud and that doesn't happen very often here in WA!
On the way home we had lunch in the Feral Brewery in the Swan Valley where they brew the best white beer. A good end to a lovely weekend!