Perth: Day 7, A full day of being on our own shopping, at King's Park and an indulgent dinner

Boy team

Girl team

That's us, at our first stop of the morning - Gordon Street Garage - for brunch. The plan for today was to shop at Water Town (factory outlet) and I suggested this place because I'd been on a coffee stop at this same café with the sister some years back. It's so near to the shops that I thought it'd be convenient. Previously, I'd only had a takeaway coffee and my first experience at this café didn' disappoint.

Our breakfast spread

Devouring every morsel with zest

After filling our tummies, we did the short drive across the road. We then spent the next 3 hours at the mall spending some money. No pictures to show of the place, except for these two that the husband snapped while the boy team were together.

With his new cap

With more attitude

It was about 3pm by this time, and after a pastry stopover to buy some tarts, off we went to King's Park. It was a beautiful, beautiful day and I think the next few hours that we spent at the park in the amazing weather was one of the highlights for me/us. The park was not crowded, with little groups of people scattered over the pastures. The sun made it just right for us to sit on the grass, while the cool winds kept us comfortable - perfect. We had no entertainment, except for pure nature (plus our tarts and water and beers).

Horsing around

Smiley tart face

Amazing weather, amazing spirits

Lying on the grass because, why not?

Jump!

Family at King's Park

More horsing around

Cute little ones

Pic credit: K

Pic credit: J - this totally cracks me up.

All tired out

By sunset, at about 6pm, the children were absolutely knocked out - as you can tell from that hilarious pic. I guess rolling around on grass and being active has that effect on you. We let them snooze for a bit while we decided upon dinner - it was our last in Perth and the husband had picked a burger place serving American food. On a last minute whim, however, we decided on a restaurant next door that serves Japanese Fusion food which was pretty tasty, but rather expensive. We have no pics from dinner at all but we did have a nice time. It was called The Bonsai. We were totally stuffed (again) at the end of our dinner course.. and the children requested to facetime with their little friends M and Z - they'd been apart only a day and were still missing the good company.

As we were on a very early flight the next morning, we headed straight back to the hotel after our meal. We spent the night packing and putting the children to bed as quickly as I could while the husband took this opportunity to visit the casino in the last few hours.

By midnight, the kids were asleep, the luggages were packed, and without waiting for the husband to return, I'd hit the sack. It was a lovely, lovely day and my heart (& tummy) were full.

The rest of our holidays here on day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4, day 5 and day 6.