friday, Saturday

deb takes the adults off to their fancy lunch. I'm left with the kids. i survive.

the rest of the day is deb, me and the two kids. we survive.

deb drives us to Swings and Roundabouts. it's a battle of phone GPSs. Deb's just locks up and refuses to speak. mine, well, noone trusts me to navigate.

still, we get there. it's a winery with cafe and playgrounds. the playgrounds are solid logs and thick ropes. scary for adults but the kids are fine. we have lunch there. a somewhat light weight thin crust pizza, not much for the boy's growing appetite. nice though.

then we drive back. there's some confusion organising to pick up the adults, there's no phone signal at the holiday home.

deb goes to pick up the adults, I'm left with the kids. much screaming and struggling. my sympathy is with the older kid. he would dearly have loved to play jenga but settles for building a tower. the younger kid just wants to knock down the tower. i keep them separated.

do it again? never.

we play a lot of raining wombats. the kids run upstairs, drop a stuffed wombat off the balcony, run downstairs, repeat... good fun, lots of energy burned.

dinner, sleep...and that's it, time to leave.

i do try to have a shower before packing. the shower tap is all in one. it turns left right for hot cold but i can't read which is which. I'm dressed for a shower, my glasses are in another room. after a few minutes of cold water i give it up as a bad job.

we pack up... wave goodbye... drive off... with a challenging start, no phone signal so google maps is no help.

it's a pleasant drive, says Deb. nice bush, not much traffic.

first stop is Nannup. we have muffins and coffee in the garden of a health food cafe. last year we had a vegan lunch in the same cafe, muffins are much better.

We buy sandwiches in manjimup and eat them for lunch at a small farmers market. sandwiches are big enough that they will also do for dinner. especially after we buy icecreams :-) plus some local bread (it's delicious) and pickles from the market.

it's afternoon when we arrive at wisteria cottage, on the edge of albany. very cosy, pleasant and peaceful.

one small worry... like a rogaine, as time passes... we/I could almost belive that we enjoyed looking after the kids... :-)

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