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Things have been really quiet the last couple of weeks with the kids being back at school and Sean working weekends, the reality for me is that the holiday is over and this is my normal life now. I have even begun baking!

The kids are happy to be back at school, and Janaya is doing her last two days this week of half day kindy. Next week she will be doing two full days a week, which will really give me and Sean a chance to spend a bit of time together and do some fun stuff alone. Planning to play a bit of squash, some swimming, and Sean has promised to teach me how to play golf!!!! Having being part of a co-ordinating team for the onerahi Kindys Golf Tournament for the last 5 years, and My brother and Sean being avid golfers I am still yet to have my 1st game. (though I am a mini golf queen, that just doesn't count)

We are missing the greenness of home alot, but its funny, the longer we stay in this environment, the more it tends to grow on you, and you begin noticing the beauty of some of the landscapes etc. We drove off road after a swim at the beach the other day, and had roos leaping out at us along the way, the kids being quite taken with a baby one hopping along. There was a massive escarpment that dropped vertically down to the beach, and with the sun low in the sky, the different reds and colours shining from it was quite scenic. We are really glad we didn't buy a brand new car now, we seem to pop off road quite often and take a drive, something we wouldn't have done in a flash shiny Holden.





We took a drive out to have another look at the jump up, (I mentioned this in one of my first posts). Its quite impressive though a little more over rated than what I was expecting. It is classed as extreme 4wd driving but its only very short. It is steep and narrow (only just wide enough for a vehicle) with a very rough surface made up of loose smooth round boulders, which isn't really a problem but at the very top there is are two big rocks that you have to somehow negotiate your way over. You would definitely need someone guiding you up thru there, which I am happy to take that job and leave the driving to Sean. We are planning a camping trip out there soon when it cools down a bit. We will have to take the side steps off the wagon, even though it has had a lift kit put on it making it higher than most landcruisers, (The top of the bonnet comes up to the top of my shoulder and its higher than Tayden) I will probably need a ladder to get in it being somewhat vertically challenged.

Looking up "The Jump Up"



Looking Down





And finally the rocks at the top, the photo doesn't do it justice as those rocks look 5 times bigger in real life.