Home again
Here I am, sitting in sunny - yet cold - Petone. It is very nice to be here, helped a great deal by the new skylight in our kitchen, which makes the place so beautiful I can barely express my joy. Now I want skylights in all the rooms, and trips to the Sunshine Coast while they're installed.
Lessons learned on holiday:
- Don't catch the 6am flight with children. You will be up ridiculously early, and then arrive in Austalia at 7am, ready for a very, very long day. One child may even develop a dramatic temperature, which will get you through customs in only 2 hours. It isn't worth it though.
- Don't hire a cheap car. It will be older than you, not have central locking, and make you look like a bogan.
- Don't listen to ginger ponytailed Australians talk about snakes and spiders, and how they live in your ceilings and shoes and live in the water and bite you TO DEATH - until you leave the country. This kind of discussion upon arrival could seriously limit your relaxation.
- Speaking of relaxation - travel with small children doesn't involve relaxation. Accept this early, and just go for it and enjoy Dreamworld.
- Crows are probably Satan.
And now I'm going to look at the sky, through my skylight. It doesn't get better than that.
3 comments:
Welcome home, Martha!
sounds like a great holiday. hilarious commentary... looking forward to seeing you this weekend!
How did your material shopping go? Got lots of goodies for bags and bibs?
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