Today was a very exciting day which started early for a weekend! 8.30 we were up to be greeted with a car decal being fed under our door called Pedder's suspension with that Myles took the hint and got up! Breakfast on his agenda and a shower on mine. Myles had a day of creating and fixing race cars ahead of him and Laura had an exciting trip to Sydney Opera House to see South Pacific! Very exciting, Deb had planned to take her mother and found out that it was cheaper to get 4 tickets than 2! Bit silly but nevertheless it was the case. So Sherry and I were invited. This brings me onto the next news one of the people who has stayed with Ian and Debra before has come back for work near by! So it's a full house at the moment. It was an eventful morning moving beds and doing all sorts but during this time Laura had the fright of her life finding the BIGGEST centipede in the world taking residence in her jeans! After a few squeals and Myles capturing it all was fine again. Laura now never leaving clothes unattended... Not fun at all!
After all the excitement both sides were ready to go, the boys set off first to Picton to start work on the Proton rally car whilst we set off in convoy to pick up Debra's mother. Sherry is staying with a friend in Sydney so she is taking her car and we did a convoy to the opera house. I jumped in with her so she wasn't so alone if deb got too far ahead! All was fine only 1 point we got separated by rather short traffic lights but not too bad! Once we arrived we drove into the underground car park in the Opera House. Only $15 for the day, not bad for the Quay on a Saturday! The carpark is 2 huge circles that goes under the Opera House and would be great for drifting. Once we found a space we were off, tickets acquired and a nose around the gift shop we had a quick drink and found our seats. I took a few sneaky photos with the camera as your not allowed and put it away before I got told off! We had the first 3/4 of the play before the intermission which was amazing. It was really great and we all really enjoyed it. Tomorrow is their last performance before it goes off to Melbourne. For those who don't know what it's about here's a quick breakdown it's a musical that centres on a group of 'American sailors and Navy nurses stationed in the South Pacific during World War II. Arkansas native Nellie Forbush befriends and quickly falls for Emile de Becque, a French expatriate and plantation owner, and Lt. Joe Cable finds himself in a passionate affair with Liat, the young daughter of Bloody Mary, the local grass-skirt peddler. As the war against Japan escalates, reality sets in for both Forbush and Cable, who struggle to reconcile their unconventional love affairs with their long-held prejudices and insecurities.'
After this it was time to go and had the long hour and a half drive back from the city. A quick stopover at woolies to get dinner and tacos were on the menu which we like lots :)
Lots of food eaten it was pretty late and after dinner chats we made our way to bed as did everyone else. The F1 is on tonight and Myles ha elected NOT to watch it!! Mind you it runs from 11:35-2:00am. He said he will watch the race though.
Sunday 3rd
Another earlyish start breakfast and it was time for Myles to go as he was playing fixing race cars with Ian today. This left me with morning jobs of cleaning the kitchen until deb came home from going to the shops. This was sharply followed by us going upstairs and unpacking the flat pack bed that had to be made. Once we checked all parts were there we found that the wooden headboard was chipped so we put the whole thing together and then went to get another bit for it. This took us up to 1 O'clock when Myles was home! It was lunch time so he was feeding himself and I stole his lunch and he had a tuna sandwich which was bigger anyways. Then the rest of the bed was put together! Yay! Myles and Deb got the mattress from the garage along with a bedside table and the room looks beautiful now! All of these bits were for Sherry's room.
Because today was a muggy day Myles had decided that it was swimming time. I was happy playing catch with just my legs in but he rugby tackled me and threw me in the pool.. After a while the wind picked up a lot and it was warmer in the water than out so we played a few games and generally larked around. Laura got cold and gave Myles notice that she would be getting out soon. He was having none of this and threw her back in again and again. Once he got bored of this he stole both towels and then threw Laura in. This was fine but she also dragged the towel with her! Deb tutted out the window and we rung it out and had a shower! That brings us to now really! Myles just got a text alerting of a local fire. Here we go again. It was very very windy today and the fire local to us which was nearly out is not out of control again. It's a fair way from us still so no need to really worry just yet. All our fire plans are in place anyway.
We thought you would like to know that tonight we had fillet steak, pork, satay chicken, lamb chops, a wide verity of salads and fruit, chips and coleslaw all prepared in house and cooked by Myles on the BBQ.
Don't get too jealous now...
Apart from that we had a good fun weekend which was nice :)
Love to you all! X
Myles' addition to the blog.
I was playing race cars with Ian over the weekend, Ian wants to run the brake and fuel lines internally on the rally car. Also install a hydraulic handbrake. The inside has been stripped and I have been preparing to spray the interior and roll cage. Ian has been doing a little bit of electronics. That's all so far. Hopefully we can drive it properly soon! (photos to come soon!!)
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