Well my boy turned 9 on Tuesday and with the two cyclones putting us on yellow alert, Birthday plans were changed. We had planned a trip to Exmouth on Sunday, returning the day after Taydens Birthday, but all this had to be put on hold as the cyclones came and went. But by Monday afternoon the weather was good enough for us to set off, so bookings were changed and the decision to go down on Tuesday was made. We hadn't told the kids we were going so Taydens birthday was going to be not what he had expected. 5am Sean and I were up packing the car before we woke the kids at 5.30am. Tayden opened his presents and was stoaked with the junior golf clubs Sean had got in Perth.
After opening his presents from NZ and talking to Nana, Poppa and Mark, It was normally time to get ready for school and as they had had thurs, fri and mon off school,they were looking forward to going back to school. They were pretty excited when we told them we were going on Holiday for the week.
By 7.30am we had set off on our first Holiday since being here. The 5 and a 1/2 hour trip was the quickest and easiest trip I have ever been on. It really felt like we had just driven in a straight line from start to finish, with maybe a couple of bends. There were two roadhouse stops along the way and nothing else. I would hate to have to drive that too often as the monotony of the landscape could do your head in but it subtly it changed on the way.
As we got closer to Exmouth we spotted these termite nests, then after a while they were dotting the landscape for as far as the eye could see, so many of them, it kinda made you shiver at the thought of how many termites would be in each nest.
We arrived in Exmouth around 1pm and had a look around and liked what we saw. In the holiday park where we were staying there were these emus hanging around. Janaya was beside herself with excitement never having seen before, she was fascinated and for a little girl that's afraid of kittens and dogs, she wasn't afraid of the emus. She followed them around and just giggled at them. It was so cute.
We then went and spent a couple of hours in the pool, it was so nice to cool off after a long drive.
When we got back to our cabin, Janaya shrieked Mummy the mango is here, I had no idea what she was talking about but when I saw what she meant I just cracked up. It was the emu back again. With the correct wording of the bird sorted, we named this particular emu Mango and Mango was to become a regular visitor to Janaya for the next few days.
We went out to a nice restaurant for Taydens Birthday dinner and both Tayden and Kahayla turned their noses up at the kids meals, they ended up ordering garlic prawns, ka-ching ka-ching. lol I guess they are growing up. It was a very nice meal, but it was back home for the birthday cake, which wasn't up to my usual standards but I couldn't make anything too fancy to take away, but it tasted pretty good.
Saturday, March 17, 2007
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Wow - 9! I cant believe it. I hope Jananya had a nice bday too! Cool holiday - we need one of those - the boys and I are going to go on a winter holiday (hopefully going to hire a campervan and go for a tiki tour around the north island. I know what you mean about those termite hills (shiver, shiver, squirm, ewww). Well its getting nippy here now and dark - time to get the firewood ready. Love you all.
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