G;day All,

Well the arrival into Perth was painless,we de-trained at the Perth terminal and retrieved our bags from the trolley, we then headed out to find our transfer coach to the Hotel, we were directed to a little bus and the driver put our bags on first as we were the last to get off .

The bus took us for a tour of the city as we dropped various people off at their hotels and now onto the Sullivan hotel this is at the base of Kings Park, the driver explained that due to a lot of road works in the city area he had to try and remember which way to go as the roads were blocked or no turns allowed eventually we arrived and booked in, the receptionist said our room was not ready but i think he saw that we were looking tired etc so he looked and found another room for us an we could go straight up.

The room was not the biggest we have been in but not the smallest like the prison cell in London, when we tried to turn the lights on in the Bathroom they would not work so i ask the housekeeping if there was a problem she said that there is no maintenance person on duty on the weekend so i had a look discovered that the bulb had blown an she supplied a new fluro Fluorescent bulb) and i fitted it and Bob's your uncle we have light .

we went down for a bite to eat then Nancy did the washing and i chilled out as usual, then we arranged for our tours for the next couple of days and as per usual no sleep ins the first tour is down to the Valley of the giants. The pick up is 7am so that means a 5 am get up and have showers etc.

After my snooze(oops Chill out) we went down for dinner and i had a beautiful chili prawns and a ice cream sundae,then up to bed for a non rocking sleep, so good night every one have a wonderful sleep and talk soon

Stewart and Nancy

Hello Every one,

Tis I the roving reporter Cedric, I have some news for you all and it is not good the idiot lived up to his name again today is the last day on the train so he packs me away in his back pack and goes off for some breakfast and leaves me all alone in the cabin . While he is away the cab9n steward comes in and removes the dirty sheets etc from the beds and throws the back pack back on the seat she did not know i was in there so all my coffee and croissants went helter skelter, so there i was covered in coffee and ham and tomato from my croissant, the idiot comes back opens the bag an cleans up the coffee but leaves me covered in the ham ewwww and i don;t like ham but the only other choice was Vegemite sandwiches. When I complain he mumbles something about being stuffed or to get something so i just ignore him wipe my hands on his camera cloth.

We de Camp de train and i stand on the platform yell de train, de train master and he looks at me like i was a little midget hm maybe we could make a movie out of this hey, Nancy and i look for the Big clock where we are to get our luggage from, the idiot is off like a mad man walking this way an that finally we get to the clock and every one is standing around so he says to Nancy stand over here against the wall an we will be out of the way of the maddening crowd, well this is where he lived up to his name after about 5 minutes Nancy and i start to look at the idiot as he is standing there looking quite the innocent one and it was up to me to comment on the smell that is hitting our nostrils and i say excuse me but what is that smell and the idiot looks around and finds out we are standing near the air out let pipe of the toilets, well talk about turn red he shuffled us along a bit further and then turned to me and whispered i thought it was you, well i have never been so insulted in all my life i picked up my tail and stormed off to the other side of the building and watched the show from there .

If you have ever seen a pack of Jackals ripping into a meal then this scene is close to that when the bags arrived from the Baggage car they were on open trolleys piled higgledy piggledy well i thought like every one else that it would be like a airport the bags come out on a little travelator and we grab them nooooo the rail ways have a better way its called feed the humans, well every one just grabbed what they thought was their bags and there were bags flying left and right as people spotted their bags under others so instead of waiting they just grabbed an toppled other peoples bags irrespective of the damage they may cause, as luck would have it ours were on the bottom and up right so the idiot just grabbed them and we set off to the transfer bus.

The driver advised us that due to excessive road works in the centre of the city he would be dropping us off last and proceeded to drop off the other passengers i saw where all the other hotels were and i could check them out and shuddered at the fact we may have been in some of them, I later over heard that one of them had the smallest rooms in Perth for a hotel, any way soon we were at our hotel and we were lucky the Receptionist allowed us to change rooms and we ended up getting straight into it only to discover that the bathroom bulb had blown and the idiot asked the house keeping if they could fix it she said sorry sir but there is no maintenance on the weekend so he said get one and he will replace it, so like the real hero he is he replaced it with out even needing a ladder how cool is that me i would of gotten a nose bleed at that height, and i am a squirrel but as i said that's why i dig holes looking for artefact's i don't have to climb damn trees any way it is a lovely hotel and we are settled in, and tomorrow we are off early a 7am to pick up and we are off to see the Valley of the giants.

Cheers All
Cedric