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West Australia Newspaper - 9th June, 2010

Kalgoorlie Miner - 9th June 2010

KALGOORLIE/BOULDER HIT BY AN EARTHQUAKE

The Old Commercial Hotel

No Skimpies, here tonight!

Golden Eagle Hotel

Kalgoorlie/Boulder was hit by an earthquake yesterday (20.04.2010) reading 5 on the richter scale with aftershocks still happening today. Most of the damage was done to the hotels in Boulder and to some houses. My sister works at the Rec Hotel in Boulder and she said that is was pretty scary stuff & with the engineers checking out the structure of the buildings (as some of these hotels are over 100 years old) not sure whether she has a job to go back to. My niece who is 12, has the rest of the school week of as a couple of the roofs in her school collapsed. She had put on her facebook that it felt like an 7 or 8 on the richter scale. Did not have the heart to tell her "how would she know as she has never been in one that size except for yesterday", bless her! Lucky no one was seriously injured. Hopefully they will be able to rebuild the old buildings? Who says Kal/Boulder is boring??

LEO SKYLINE

Yesterday's skyline in Leo about 5.00pm, the colours are just gorgeous.

CHOCOLATE EASTER EGGS

Considering I am not really a chocolate person, I got very spoilt on Easter Sunday. I only ate the 2 Easter eggs (great bunny's in the pink packets). I will have to take the rest to my niece, Bella when I see her next.

MARCH - WHERE DID YOU GO?

April already, I have no idea where the month of March went to?

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Plans for our trip to the States this September is all booked & just waiting for confirmation. Friends wedding in Las Vegas, can't wait. Doing our trip by car, as long as we have the GPS there is not way we can get lost - I hope! Driving on the left hand side will be interesting too, though I have already done that a few years ago when I was over there, was nerve racking & lots of thinking - we will be right mate!! Looking forward to the drive through the desert from LA to Vegas as that has always been a dream of mine & now will become a reality. Our drive will take us to the cities of LA, Vegas, San Fransisco then along the coast back to LA with a few stopover's between the cities. Have booked helicopter tour over the Grand Canyon/Hoover Dam along with a walk on the skywalk. Hoping to get tickets to be part of the audience on the Ellen show, love Ellen & of course Disneyland is on the agenda too.

TIGER FOUND!

Tiger spotted off the coast - haha!

OUT PLAYED THEM ALL!

SURVIVOR SAMOA:

Russell Hantz - day one he came to play & nothing & no one was going to stop him. At the beginning of the show I thought who is this cocky little bastard then through out the show he grew on me & then he started to dominate the show, the leader of the pack & practically ruled the show & I liked! A few episodes were on the edge of your seat viewing. It was far the best Survivor I have seen.

Last night Russell should of won as he outwitted, outplayed & outlasted the others but NO he didn't as the other cast members were bitter that he beat them all, & decided to give it to Natalie who hung off Russell through out the show. He played the game well and at the end of the day it is how you play the game & Russell was brilliant. He put Johnny Fairplay to shame!