Home James

As a child whenever Mum, Dad and I hoped into the car to drive home Mum would turn to Dad and say "Home James" which on reflection was a bit strange as his name is Malcolm. I thought this was just the done thing, like Dave commanding HAL to do his job in 2001, you know a word command it makes the driver go right?  So when I married Glenn I tried it out, it didn’t work. He turned to be with this confused hurt puppy look on his face like I had muddled him up with and ex-boyfriend and said

"Um, my name is Glenn"

"Yeah I known but it’s just something you say"

"Why"

"I Dunno you just say it when your going home"

"no you don’t"

"Fine"

Before we got in the car the girls really really needed a good bye photo of the apartment. They are making an effort to show off their slippers because we said they could wear them home in the car, which means wearing them during the day, which is unusual and therefore has to be captured on film (film…. what’s that?)

Lilly also needed one of the bedroom. Eli slept on the floor between the girls beds on lounge cushions and Sabi slept in our room on lounge cushions, so glad this place had so many lounges.

The first half of the drive home was made up of looking at all of the Big Things that we couldn’t see in the dark on the drive up.

This is some Big Knight dude and his Macadamia castle. Because the first thing I think of when I think about Australia’s most famous nut is the medieval era. I think it’s just blatant Europe envy but it’s fun and the kids thought it was cool so I have to approve. 

The Big Prawn, now aren’t you jealous your town doesn’t have an oversized crustacean.

The Big Banana, this one has a bit of an old friend feel to it as my sister lived just down the road from the over sized fruit for years. Oh and it sells rock candy and boiled sweets made on site to balance out the giant health food stigma in their advertising.

After we passed by all the Big things we started to focus a bit on nature. We pointed out the wildlife fence to the kids and asked them if they knew why the top was all floppy. After chatting about it for a while, which was great because it passed they time, they realized that if you tried to climb a floppy fence it would bend and you would fall back to earth. Then Lani calls out "Hey I know Mummy maybe they put that fence there so that the animals wouldn’t get squished by all the cars on the busy road" "Yes sweetie, I think you may be on to something there" I love it when the penny drops but sometimes it’s so hard not to smile that little bit too much at them.

This bridge is an animal crossing bridge for Kangaroos, well for any animal that’s around really but the possums have rope ladder crossings at more regular intervals and the wombats have tunnels. It’s a much nicer drive home now without the bloated kangaroo carcases that used to past me by as a child.

And that was about it really, it feels like an odd and abrupt way to end a post so I asked Glenn whether anything else stood out for him on the way home and he just scrunched his face up and said "Nah, not really"

so

The End.

Glenn has just told me I need to clarify that this post is about the trip we went on a few weeks ago and that we are home now, I’m not sure why he thinks it necessary to let you all know how slack I am in keeping up with the posting and the record keeping but there you are. He would also like me to tell you that I have now written a set of posts with a proper beginning and a few middles here…… here……. here…….. and here and well this one is the end but please feel free to look back over the Holiday Set now that it has an official title.