Our first day in Perth and Jamie's Birthday.

We're now in a Internet cafe near our Hostel in Perth.
We are spending 6 nights in Perth, we arrived on the 22nd and we are going to Bali on the 28th.
Our flight was scheduled at 0:05am, which was 5 minutes into Jamie's 18th birthday.
As Jamie boarded the aircraft, I asked the flight attendant if he could have a special announcement. I wrote down his name and age and she read it out on the plane as we were about to take off.
When we arrived, Ben's dad picked us up from the airport and drove us to his friends house near Mandurah, Perth. We had landed at 5:30 am, and by the time we were near to the house it was around 7am, we were hungry and David (Ben's Dad) bought us a "Hungry Jacks" breakfast meal.

It was our first experience of the "Hungry Jacks". It was another fast food to add to the many in our "Tried, tested and used many times collection". Hungry Jacks is an Australian Fast food chain similar to Burger King. However, the breakfast wrap goes down a treat :).
We hadn't managed to get any sleep on the "Air Asia" flight as there wasn't much leg room and the seats weren't wide enough to fit my fatness. (suppose that's what you expect from a budget airline). Due to our lack of sleep, we arrived at the house, met Ben's family, ate our hungry Jacks from the hungry Jacks Drive thru' and went up to bed to get a few hours kip.

David woke us up around 1ish and we then went out to see some of the local wildlife.
We drove out to find a Kangaroo, and it wasn't long before a Kangaroo was spotted. We got quite up-close took a few snaps, recorded them on film and then drove to see Ben's dads new house next to a local golf course.

The weather in Perth was abit chilly. Reaching 11 degree's at night and dipping to around 3 degree's in the day. When we went to some of the local shops in Mandurah I purchased an Australian Jumper. It was only $25, which is around 13 pounds. A bargain in comparison to prices we have found elsewhere in Perth. It has certainly kept me warm since we've been here.

We headed back to the house and David stuck the Barbeque on where we enjoyed steak, Lamb and sausage sarnies and a couple of beers to celebrate Jamie's birthday. After the bbq, the lights were out and Ben brought a cake out to Jamie, lit with 18 candles which they had bought for him when we were out. we were then taken to a local Irish pub where me, Jamie, Ben and his dad had a few drinks and a singsong on the Karaoke.
I had a shot at a couple of songs and we also had a group boogie singing The Proclaimer's "500 miles" at the top of our voices, whilst marching on the spot, enjoying ourselves in front of quite a large audience and also people dancing away to our beautiful quartet.

It was a great day, we all enjoyed ourselves and Jamie had a great birthday.
We will be updating the blog about our other days in Perth soon.!