On a lighter note
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catsidheBack from Adelaide. Several days with Mum and K.
The drive there and the drive back were exhausting, as they always are. The return today was made more interesting by a burst of heat, which looks to continue tomorrow. Looks like an inside day until the change...
We went to the Adelaide Zoo on Friday, which fits a lot into its postage-stamp acreage. The girls loved everything, and were particularly impressed by feeding time for the hippopotamuses.
Swimming on Saturday, which left us all sunburnt to some degree or other. The sun really is hotter over there. The girls loved paddling, going out as deep as they dared, and walking along the beach looking for shells.
Port Adelaide on Sunday, to visit the Seahorse Farm (the girls patted a Port Jackson shark), and then to the Port Adelaide Market. Like Camberwell Market, but under cover. Antiques, second-hand, new, treasures, tschotschkes, craft, stuff. Lots of stuff.
Quick trip to McLaren Vale on Monday, got some mead, dropped into the Olive Grove.
Written down like that, it doesn't sound like much. But there was lots of chasing (and carrying) of girls, of being with mum and K, of hanging out, of chatting, of being quiet, of threatening physical violence against my sister in retaliation for her buying a bamboo sort-of-recorder, each in sort-of-tune, which they both went around the house blowing the one note in the rhythm of “twinkle twinkle little star”, until we put on a DVD to shut them up. Lots of “Auntie Kat, can we have a practice on your ‘tuba’?” Lots of snuggles. Lots and lots of Farmers' Union Iced Coffee.
When we were driving away, Abi asked, “why are we going home? I'm going to miss Nanna and Auntie Kat.”
We convinced her that she would appreciate her own bed (and I know![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mimdancer and I will appreciate our own beds tonight), and that she would also miss Ninna (her other grandmother) and her other Auntie.
It is always hard to drive away, though. It's just too hard to do this any more often.
The drive there and the drive back were exhausting, as they always are. The return today was made more interesting by a burst of heat, which looks to continue tomorrow. Looks like an inside day until the change...
We went to the Adelaide Zoo on Friday, which fits a lot into its postage-stamp acreage. The girls loved everything, and were particularly impressed by feeding time for the hippopotamuses.
Swimming on Saturday, which left us all sunburnt to some degree or other. The sun really is hotter over there. The girls loved paddling, going out as deep as they dared, and walking along the beach looking for shells.
Port Adelaide on Sunday, to visit the Seahorse Farm (the girls patted a Port Jackson shark), and then to the Port Adelaide Market. Like Camberwell Market, but under cover. Antiques, second-hand, new, treasures, tschotschkes, craft, stuff. Lots of stuff.
Quick trip to McLaren Vale on Monday, got some mead, dropped into the Olive Grove.
Written down like that, it doesn't sound like much. But there was lots of chasing (and carrying) of girls, of being with mum and K, of hanging out, of chatting, of being quiet, of threatening physical violence against my sister in retaliation for her buying a bamboo sort-of-recorder, each in sort-of-tune, which they both went around the house blowing the one note in the rhythm of “twinkle twinkle little star”, until we put on a DVD to shut them up. Lots of “Auntie Kat, can we have a practice on your ‘tuba’?” Lots of snuggles. Lots and lots of Farmers' Union Iced Coffee.
When we were driving away, Abi asked, “why are we going home? I'm going to miss Nanna and Auntie Kat.”
We convinced her that she would appreciate her own bed (and I know
mimdancer and I will appreciate our own beds tonight), and that she would also miss Ninna (her other grandmother) and her other Auntie.It is always hard to drive away, though. It's just too hard to do this any more often.
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Date: 2009-01-13 10:24 pm (UTC)