Pictures from the weekend

This weekend we went into Perth on Saturday to go to the big park they have in the middle of the city called King's Park. The Swan River runs right through the city and the park is on a hill next to the river, so we had great views of Perth from up there. The park also has a botanical garden, so we walked through and saw all these native Australian flowers and trees. So a lot of the pictures in this slideshow are from the park. Later that day we went to a professor's house to have a dinner. She cooked some great food and there was a lot of good wine and shop-talk. She lives close enough to the coast to have an ocean view. Sunday we went to AQWA- the aquarium of Western Australia. They have it set up so you walk around to different sections of the WA coast. It was good. They also had a huge tanks with a tunnel you walk under. Pretty big sharks and eagle rays! Plus, in a section of the place called "Danger Zone" we diagnosed the weird red dots on one of Ken's leg. We think he got stung by a Cockburn Sound anenome, we've been collecting fish at Cockburn Sound! But, their sting is not life-threatening like most other things here, so he's okay.
AQWA is next to this big Harbour called Hillarys. It has a bunch of shops, and also some random water slides and carnival rides. There's also a little protected area of beach, and it was overrun by families with little Australian children who have really cute accents. There is live music on Sundays there, so we went and listened. The band was good, although they played a really random mix of cover songs and also some we'd never heard!
We had a really good time also last week while Meg (one of Ken's old masters students) visited us. She's been living in Australia for about 3 years so she was able to clue us in to some of their weird phrases and habits. "Arvo" means afternoon, "knackered" means really tired, "yonks" means a long way, like traveled yonks, and all words that can be shortened are.