The Holidays

Our Holidays in Australia were wonderful fun - almost too good. The kids always had other kids to play and spent wonderful hours playing superheroes, and jungle animals, jumping on the trampoline, going for swims and putting on plays, concerts and fashions shows. We managed lots of catch ups with some good friends, a few sleepovers, outings to the Botanic Gardens for a picnic with the Bertram family, Moonlight Cinema with the Springs, Horse riding with Anna, a theatre perfomance with most of the Day cousins and a couple of pilgrimmages to the shopping mecca that is Southland. Thanks to Tam and Andy for their wonderful hospitality - you have the best resort in Australia. I loved finishing most nights looking up at the stars from the hot spa. That's something we can't manage here in Singapore - even if our spa was heated there's not much chance of stars

We enjoyed a week long trip to Port Arlington with Rohan, Kim and family which was a nice beach holiday during our holiday. On a 44 degree day we went to Geelong to the Waterpark. Best place to be and we had a lot of fun spotting interesting tattoos of which there were an abundance. Kim and I also walked from Drysdale to Queenscliff and back again - a total of 34km. We stopped for coffee and and a window shop in Queenscliff. We were very tempted to buy some things but decided shopping bags would ruin our professional walker look as were decked out with camel backs and fuel belts. Other highlights were swimming out to a shipwreck at Indented Heads and being there to celebrate Zoe's 8th birthday.

Eventually our Summer holidays had to finish - Matt headed back to Singapore ten days before us so were were looking forward to seeing him and Buckley. We said a sad goodbye to the family and boarded the plane. As we were standing in the residents queue at Singapore Immigration, Alice pointed to a "Welcome Home" sign and said "that for us". For the moment anyway.