Great Grandma came to visit

Jeff's grandmother (his father's mother) came to visit us this week. She had been circumnavigating Australia aboard the Dawn Princess. In the picture below, you can see the ship in the background: look how far it shows above the two storey passenger terminal! And of course there is lots of ship below the ground level of the dock as well.
We had a fantastic time with her on Monday and Tuesday before she flew off to Adelaide to visit Jeff's brother Andrew, among others. A thousand thank yous to Jeff's Auntie Laurel (his mother's sister - the completely other side of the family) who hosted Great-Grandma for two nights and took her to the plane.

On Monday, Joshua was effervescent with his declarations of love for Grandma. She had given all the children a small chocolate when we'd all got out of the car back at home. And then she had given him two activity books, on dinosaurs and pirates! What more could any 5 year old boy desire?

On Tuesday, it was the girls and Sam who were overwhelmed. Grandma gave Abigail and Anna a doll each, as well as two lovely wooden doll's cots to put them to bed in. And Samuel was given a (small, stuffed) singing Santa. He spent the hour before dinner pressing the Santa's hand and then rocking his torso to and fro in the same way the little Santa did. It was very cute.

Sorry no other photos, but my camera battery ran out while we were at the dock and I still haven't had my wonderful mechanically-minded husband sort that out for me.