Queen's Birthday public holiday

Here in WA, we celebrated the Queen's birthday with a public holiday on Monday. Everywhere else in Australia celebrates the Queen's birthday on the second Monday in June - along with every other country in the Commonwealth - and I just found out why!

Apparently it's because WA Foundation Day public holiday is on the first Monday in June, so to avoid two public holidays in two weeks, the Governor of WA proclaims the day WA celebrates - usually the last Monday in September or the first Monday in October. Weird huh?

Anyway I had a lovely long weekend - Luke and I went to the tip twice and bought doors for the renovation rescue we're having at home.

I was slightly pissed at having to go to the tip twice - we asked Luke's mum if we could borrow their trailer to load it up with various crap (old carpet, old curtains) that we've been piling up. Anyway, Luke's mum and stepdad said yeah no worries, we're not using it, so we drove around there (literally 2 minutes away) and they were out in the garden filling the trailer up! It was full! So before we could use the trailer we had to wait for half an hour til they'd finished their gardening, then go to the tip and empty it out full of their crap (half a tree, 17,000 old pot plants etc). Then we went home, filled it up with our stuff and had to make a second trip - we actually should have made a third - but because of all the stuffing around, we ran out of time. Gah. I guess once we got into the swing of it, it was okay, but I swear - it happens every time, so next time we need a trailer, I'll be down at the BP hiring one for $30 (the first trip tip cost about that much anyway!) It was a lovely tip though (I never thought I'd say that). It was Tamala Park, and it didn't even smell!

As for the doors - well we went to bunnings, and I was quite surprised, we got really simple interior doors and a front door with horizontal glass panels, but with handles and locks etc - it was $500! And we still have to pay for the carpenter... They will look nice though.

Other highlights of the long weekend was seeing The Dark Knight (review pending) and finishing it off with a planning day on the Tuesday for work - at the Bluewater Grill (review pending!)

I hope you all had a lovely long weekend too =)