Book are our friends

Tuesday is storytime at the local Waverly Library. They have a routine here: intro poem or song (depending on who's in charge), read a book, video then arts & crafts project. It seems like a good way to keep the kiddos' attention.

This week, in addition to our visit to Waverly, we walked over to the next town's library in Paddington, just to check it out. The Paddington library, though not that much larger, has many more kids' books on hand. We found 3 Angelina Ballerina books to read there and few others Amelia likes too. I still need to get a card, which is on my list of things to do.

Oddly enough, though, the city of Sydney libraries (Paddington is one of them but not Waverly) does not have public bathrooms. The librarian let us use hers mainly because I had a little kid with me. I wonder what the do during storytime?

Before our potty break, we met a nice little girl named Tea (though I don't really know how to spell her name correctly). Amelia had fun listening to the books and being silly with her.

After our walk to the library, we were both quite hungry. I found a nice little grocery store with delicious meat pies ready to be eaten. We got the chicken, pepper and mushroom pie along with a spinach and ricotta thing (somewhat it's like a frittata). Amelia at the pie up like there was no tomorrow. She loved it! We ate it while waiting for the bus. If I had known she was going to like it that much, I may have gotten two!

That was the extent of our day. After we got back to the apartment, she took a nap and then didn't want to anything after she woke up.

Bussing, as a pastime

Riding the #40 from Paddington to Bondi Junction

Yes. She is playing with her hair thing.

Taking the bus has become a good pastime. We'll walk somewhere and, if Amelia is still awake, we'll take the bus back home. I prefer to walk, but sometimes it's nice to just relax and watch all of the blocks go by.

The nice thing about the buses here is they allow you to bring the stroller on, without folding it up. This is a big deal because our "new" stroller is somewhat broken and not easy to fold. I found a used one on Gumtree, the Aussie version of Craigslist. I think it's a running stroller, but it looks like it will be able to handle the chunky side walks and missing ramps.

Today however, we might just take the bus places as it looks like it's going to rain! Off to get a coffee and some additional CD's from the library--I think we've heard Ernie & Bert one about 100 times since Tuesday!!!