Tim Tams (and etc.)

Need to provide an update on our favorite cookies here - Tim Tams - pretty simple, chocolate wafer with chocolate around it, and some more chocolate in the center - if you bite the ends off you can suck hot chocolate through them and then they just melt apart. On the nights we don't get gelato (current favorite for Tess and John is white chocolate with melted Nutella on top) Tim Tams do the trick. The current ranking...
1. Double coat
2. Carmel
3. Dark mint
4. Original
5. Honeycomb

Tess is still surfing at school on Fridays and loving it, the girls had 'Harmony day' last week and sang their harmony song. Today they wore gold (actually, their uniforms are gold anyway) and donated 'gold' for Sydney children's hospital. Tomorrow I'm going to make them donate to the helicopter service... One week of school until Easter break, which is two weeks. We will be going to Hamilton Island at the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef for a week during that time, which will be great. Tess is finishing up a project where she has to make a 'show bag' (a samples bag sold at fairs and etc.) - so she is cooking up candies from the Weasley's Wizard Wheezes shop (from Harry Potter, of course) for her project. Kate is supposed to be designing a machine to make her bed - thus far, no machine, and the bed is of course, still not made.

We went to Watson's bay (about 10 minutes from here at the entrance to Sydney harbor) on Sunday and had fish and chips at Doyle's, which has been there since the 1880s, then walked around the point to the lighthouse and cannon emplacements. Kate was quite taken with the cannons, etc. but most of all by the nude beach, where a few older men were 'hanging out'. At the end of our walk (when we paused for ice cream) she pronounced with a slight sigh that it was 'kinda boring, but at least I got to see some random old naked men'

Further bulletins as events warrant.... Interesting fact for the day, in Australia it's widely believed that a BILBY (like a possum) brings the eggs on Easter, not a rabbit (despite the fact that the country is over-run by rabbits)