Swiss Club WA

Introduction:

The Easter Picnic in Gidgygannup is not far away any more. You and your family are most welcome to spend Easter Sunday 26 of March at the Property of the Swiss Club. We will start at 10am and finish around 3pm. You can also camp there the days before. BYO Picnic. The BBQ will be going.

Register (until 22 of March) online.

Newcomers and Fellows who like to rejoin the Swiss Club:
This is an excellent event to get to know the fellow Swiss and spend some time to catch up by doing some leisure activities.

10am – Easter Egg colouring for Kids: Agnes will provide all materials and the eggs to paint the eggs.

The following activities will be taking place on Easter Sunday:

From 11am onwards:

Petanque: Aldo will be the instructor
Athletiques: Phil will be animator.
Badminton: Lorenz will be the unbeatable matchmaker.
Jassen: Cards are there and ready to be played with.
Cubby House: Last year we built a cubby house for the kids to have fun with,

If you have other games or toys, please feel free to bring them a long.

We, the committee are going to be there:
Lorenz Wuthrich, Claudia Maurer, Aldo Aldegheri, Angelo Bianchi, Peter Abplanalp and Rene Henzen.
Helpers: Phil Boesert and Agnes Villemain.

Camping
Agnes will be camping from Friday in Gidgy, you are most welcome to give her a ring 0423174418, when you like to join and camp on the property. You are welcome to camp there, however you need to be totally self-efficient. Toilets and BBQ are available though.

This is a free event and you are asked to donate some coins to support the Easter Egg hunt and the Egg colouring. Thank you.

Kind regards & Beste Gruesse
Lorenz
President Swiss Club WA

2016 Easter Picnic in Gidgegannup

Review: 2016 - What an Easter Picnic!

On Easter Sunday totally 76 participants showed up at the Gidgegannup Swiss Club property to enjoy some swiss Easter fun. All participants, including the 37 kids proved, that one can defy grey and chilly weather! As it was raining the two days before, we were happy with some rain drizzles only on Sunday. Around 25 really brave ones camped on the property from friday or saturday onwards, some even stayed until monday.

After a warm welcome by the president and some news concerning the upcoming events (see more detailed information on the homepage) the Easter Picnic was about to start with the traditional and especially for the kids thrilling Easter egg hunt. Yellow shot cups were hidden all around the property and were to be swapped into – not any kind of chocolate ester bunnies – but the famous swiss gold easter bunnies from Lindt (of course;-))!

After this first exciting attraction one could calm down by doing some Easter egg painting with Agnes. And yes, especially among the youngsters we can expect some new masters of arts, as some terrific easter eggs paintings were generated! But no painted Easter egg wasn’t too good not to be smashed during the ‚Eiertütsche’, a real Swiss thing. When you browse the photos of the event you see a smiling lady, her egg was just unbeatable, lucky Agnes.

While some of the praticipants then slowly but surely started a cosy BBQ, others were about to play Pétanque with Pétanque master Aldo, to try Javelin throwing with Phil or playing a Jass with Agnes. Some even tried a short badminton paly, but the wind was definitely playing against them;-) Furthermore a crew of toddlers was very happy and busy playing for almost hours with an old trolley, which they pulled around the property. How good it was to see all these smiling children faces! A special thank you goes to some bigger girls (Kyra, Rochelle & Co.), who went around with baskets for donations and to count the attendees. All in all once more it was a great event, where young and older ones melted together smoothly. Yes, the Swiss Club has a very diversified aged range.

The president used the opportunity to introduce the committee to everybody. Furthermore Richard and Simon surprised us with a spontaneous Alphorn blowing gig which was absolutely awesome in the middle of the australian bush – thank you guys!

In that very moment, you could feel why people say that the Swiss Property in Gidgegannup is a separat Kanton of Switzerland, because you felt like being back home in Switzerland.

Easter 2017 can come! There are already some new ideas fort he next year’s Easter event: a pig on the spit! But anyway, there will be a great next Easter Picnic again with attractions for everybody.

Thank you to everybody who was involved in this unforgettable Easter Picnic!

14/4/2016 Editors:
Ewa Haldenmann
Bella Wunderli
Lorenz Wuthrich