CSO Graduation

This morning was Ben's Graduation... He has now finished his course and is a CSO :P. He also got The Navy Warfare Community Medallion. It was quite a good day, Ben got 96.06% average and came away from this ceremony quite pleased with himself. Mind you I came away very proud of the work he has done and the amount of time he has put into his studies. We also went to Hogs breath cafe for dinner... Mmm had a lovely dinner chatting and stuff. Afterwards we went over to the Swinging Pig for some drinks. Man that was fun I haven't had fun like that in a while, chatting away, joking, Laughing so much. But sadly it had a sad ending... One that got sorted out but will be avoided next time.

Here are a few of the photos from the Graduation:

Medallion Cert, Rate badge (patch), Medallion, Sea Readiness Badge

Liam, Brett Mayers, Jess Spencer, Ben, Bec Stanley and Rhiannan Walker

Everyone graduating

Me and ben after the Graduation

Ben receiving His Medallion and Certificate

Ben receiving his Grad certificate

Whistling Kite

Last night I went out with a couple of friends from work. We went to the whistling Kite in Secret Harbour, it is such a nice restaurant/bar. We had a few drinks and a LOT of laughs. Claire, Sarah and Tracy had me smiling the whole night, which I haven't done in a while. We talked about many different things like work, people, family, friends, marriages, why we all moved over to WA, and much more.

Tracy is leaving on Sunday to go back over to England for personal family reasons which is why we all decided to go out. It was the first time I had been out without Ben since I have been over here, Which I don't mind, but it was good to get out with the girls. We are planning many more get together's when Tracy returns and a couple of them may include the Men.

Going out with these gals makes me quite happy, not saying that being over here with ben isnt making me happy, but just that it is good to be comfortable in my new surroundings and being able to go out with friends once again (because I didn't have any to begin with :P).

So this is where my New way of life is at presently and hopefully it just keeps moving on up...