Today we went to Narooma to see our house. Lauren and Shaylee are looking after it very well, the gardens are looking really nice.
As is always the rule when we go to Narooma, we have to go to Taylors. Only Taylors is not Taylors anymore. Just like I said in yesterday's post, things are always changing. Taylors still looks pretty much the same but it is called The Inlet now. We ate lunch at what the kids used to call the Pirate park. It has a big ship in it for the kids to play in. But big 15 year old Evan thought it all looked so much smaller now than when he was a little whipper schnapper. At six foot something and a half it is no wonder things look diminutive to him now a days.
Ellie found the Wagonga Inlet quite to her liking, as the photos show. As for the rest of us, well the weather was a little cool for our northern blood. I must remind myself more forcefully next time that I pack, that we are heading south, pack more warm clothes! A rainy day on the south coast is not the same as a rainy day up north. In our part of the world the rain is warm, in this part of the world it is cold. One day the lesson may sink in, but every time we come down here I get caught out. It certainly didn't help with packing appropriate clothing when the news was reporting heatwave conditions down this way. There is no heatwave down here at the moment and not likely to be for the week that we are here.
We attempted a shopping trip into town (Batemans Bay) this afternoon. But with the traffic and people it was most painful. So we stayed long enough for Harry to buy Steve's Christmas present and then came straight back to the scout hall. It has started raining so running around town getting wet was no longer appealing. That means tomorrow we will have to brave the crowds and buy the food that we are planning on eating for Christmas Day.
I tried to get the kids involved in planning what we would eat and do for Christmas, but the boys are not particularly involving themselves. Sarah is trying, but basically I think the boys want to sit back and have all the planning done for them, and they will just show up and eat. In between immersing themselves in their technology of course. They don't seem to be able to leave their devices for very long at all. It really is starting to drive me nuts.
Oh well hopefully they will surprise and delight me on the big day, I will just have to wait and see.
No comments:
Post a Comment