Monday, November 15, 2010

Old news... Miss Saigon

Sorry it took so long to upload these... I know, I'm usually a lot quicker!
Anyhoo, here are loads of photos from all different sources from Isabelle and my experience on the eight month Miss Saigon musical journey. It was great fun and we'd both do it again!
"American Dream" dancers with Edmund Bangkok girls - I feel young again... the other dancers are teens!
Made awesome friends, here are other contestants for the Miss Saigon title, haha! More of Bangkok scene, with our choreographer Paula, who is also Matilda's ballet teacher. The children who performed in the show. Isabelle also made great new friends and conquered Super Mario brothers level 8 over the three weeks of late night thanks to these kids! The adult cast. I'm in the front with the male lead (Nick) trying my best to keep my leg straight and smile! Act 1, scene 1: the children open the show with a school scene and they are singing in Vietnamese. Isabelle in the dressing room waiting for her cue. Market scene when Kim & Chris have just spend the night together, I'm selling flowers with some children... we had to change the bedroom scene to a public market scene - This is Doha! The wedding scene... it's been a while since I did ballet. The boat scene... I finally get to be Isabelle's stage mother too! It's a very emotional scene and this is when hoards of audience members start crying. Isabelle with two of the leads... Riette (left) plays Chris' American wife Ellen and Mia (right) plays Kim, his Vietnamese wife. Thanks to DH Brown for taking a nice mother/daughter shot! Matilda came to watch the show twice and loved it. She got to hang out with Mia who was so lovely and even seranaded Matilda with her favourite song. How lucky! With some of the boys backstage. This is my lobby photo (which my students at Doha College have all taken photos of on their iPhones & Blackberries!!)
Isabelle's lobby photo.
"Girls, I've got Girls" - now I'm a hooker in Bangkok. My students can't believe the transformation from supernerd to prositute... hahaha.

Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Trick-or-Treat!

Isabelle was too cool for school and opted out of the DESS year 4 disco. However, she still wanted to dress up and join the neighbourhood kids in trick-or-treating around the compound. Sister witches. Which witch is which? Even dogs dress up in Green Village. Matilda and Lewis scored big tonight. Happy happy. Joy joy. Or is that just the candy talking?

Halloween Disco @ DESS

Matilda attends the ghoulish disco at school. But first, a photosession at home. Look scary, Matilda. But Mummy, I'm a nice witch. Oh, OK. With BFF Zombie Mimi.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Toothless Grin

Matilda finally lost her first tooth. The best part is she pulled it out herself!
Perhaps another budding dentist in the family???

Friday, October 08, 2010

Show jumping @ QEF

We spent the afternoon together at Qatar Equestrian Federation
local show jumping competition.
Wow, they really fly!

Saturday, October 02, 2010

Cookie Time

Matilda and Isabelle went looking for something to do...
and came up with baking & decorating cookies at 6.30am this morning.
The end result was a lot of mess and many good-looking cookies!

Monday, August 30, 2010

Final week in Perth...

Saturday morning pottery with Grandma.
Non-stop playing with great new friends from the cul de sac in Leeming.
Mmm... banana smoothie and pancakes at Naked Fig Cafe.
Letting Kong Kong win at chess.
Trying on Mormor's fur for size.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Saturday, August 14, 2010

AQWA with Grandpa

"Boys, oh boys... I think he's come back for his noon feeding." (Jaws, 1975)
Grandpa got dizzy with the girls dragging him around the huge tank seven times!!
Super cool touchpool.

Monday, August 09, 2010

Cottesloe Beach

Isabelle wearing her Kiwi souvenir straight out of the suitcase.
Working up an appetite for hot chocolates and cookies from Beaches Cafe.

Saturday, August 07, 2010

While we're away, the kids play...

The grandmothers took their granddaughters out to Cohunu Wildlife Park. Matilda, animal lover, was in heaven from what we hear.Lucky Isabelle was old enough to hold & cuddle a koala called Banjo. Feeding the kangaroos.

Oh cute, a little joey!


Queenstown, NZ sans kids!!

Brendan and I enjoyed eight days of skiing and no kids! Highly recommended.NZ is so beautiful, don't you think?
Brendan loves putting snow chains on.
Blustery weather. Cool photos though.
Haunting.
We took our skis off and had a little picnic. Breathtakingly beautiful scenery.
My new beanie.
OK, now we're all recharged and looking forward to seeing the kiddies again...