LiAM and Millie and I were up first and we
went outside to sit at the table in front of our room and write in our
diaries/blog. The guy from the next room came out with his toddler son to go
and look at the birds, LiAM and Millie were interested too and LiAM had a good
chat with him. The kids and I popped down the street to get milk and bread for
breakfast, then we ate and packed up. We were ready to go by 10 but I couldn’t
see Millie’s iPod Touch anywhere – she doesn’t think she took it inside but it
wasn’t anywhere obvious in the car. We spent about 45 minutes looking in the
car and the room for it, with no luck. I imagine its in the car somewhere,
underneath stuff that we weren’t easily able to move without unpacking the
whole car…
The motel people said they’d send it if they
found it and we left to go and see the submarine (stopping at the Foodworks on
the way to see if we’d left it there – no). From a distance the submarine looks
simply yellow, up close it looks amazing – every imaginable shade of yellow, in
knitted, crocheted or woven pieces of every size, all joined together to form a
giant cover for the sub. Some of the pieces had knitted animals attached to
them, or woven in as part of the pattern, some had words (including one that
said Liam), others had plastic sea creatures attached – it was fun exploring
all the detail, even in the rain. The yellow wool is a yarn bombing exercise
that has been done in time for some wool festival. It had only been installed
the day that we arrived and will only be there for a month, so it felt like
good timing to be in Holbrook!
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| Approaching the Submarine |
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| Close up with sea animals |
From there we went to the Holbrook bakery
where they sell the best pies in Australia, according to my brother (when I
asked at the info centre the girl there confirmed that they were the best).
Tony, Caitlin and I had pies (mine was satay chicken, theirs were plain pies)
and yes, they were magnificent. LiAM and Millie had sweet pastries which were
also delicious.
We left Holbrook in the rain for almost the
last leg home. Again we had a pleasant drive, listened to Harry Potter and
talked about where we were, what we’d do when we got home, and played
iPads/Pods. Just after I drove past the last roadhouse before we turn of the
Hume Freeway, I realized we needed petrol, so we went into Benalla to get some.
While Tony was putting the petrol in I realised we were opposite a McDonalds,
and I’d promised Tony that at some point on our trip we could have soft serve
cones from Maccas – so I popped over and got one each for the kids and Tony
which was a nice little treat for the way home.
Mum and Dad had suggested we could call
into their place in Yea on our way through, as they had a birthday present for
Millie, so we did that. Great to see them and also Buckley our dog and all of
our chickens (our chicks are now almost fully grown and the ‘baby’ roosters are
crowing). Millie loved her presents – a fold up camp chair (pink) and a great
hot pink and black dress, with black leggings. Everyone had lots to tell and
show everyone else, then we had some cakes and sang Happy Birthday to Millie
again, then had a bit of a play, and Caitlin watched some of Dance Academy –
very exciting to see all the places we had been on Wednesday!. We were getting
ready to head home as it was approaching tea time, so decided it was easier to
stay there for tea and come home fed. It was a pleasant evening and then I got
very tired before the kids were quite ready to leave, so I had a shower and
that refreshed me enough.
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| Blowing out more candles in her new outfit |
We got home about 8.45 and unpacked the
necessary things from the car. Caitlin watched some more Dance Academy, LiAM
played on his iPod, Tony watched the football, Millie went to bed. I pottered
around a bit, settling back into home and feeling good to be here. Weird though
to have no animals here – we’ll get the cat tomorrow and the other animals in a
few days.
It was a great trip and I am feeling so
much more relaxed and re-energised after it. Looking forward to whatever comes
next and hoping I can carry my current state of mind into non-holiday
activities. To keep up with what we’re doing day-to-day you can check out my
other blog at seekingjoyeveryday.blogspot.com.au
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