12/9-12/15
Week 8
Weekend with Anna
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| Dog Park |
This weekend I went to stay with Anna up in the Northern
Beaches. Anna is my friend/ ex-roommate from APU. She is also being an Au Pair.
The family she is working with is currently on holiday in the UK so she is just
house sitting for them. Well, house and dog sitting. This family has 3 dogs.
And if you know Anna, it is hilarious to think of her as being in charge of 3
dogs. Anyway, so on Friday afternoon Dan and the boys drove me out there. On a
good day it would be a 40 minute drive, but unfortunately, there was a
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| You can't just pet one of them |
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| View from the guest room |
Once we got there Dan and the boys chatted for a few minutes
before heading back home. Anna and I took the dogs to the dog park, an
excursion Anna was a bit apprehensive to try on her own. The dogs are all very
high energy. They are all ex-navy dogs however, so they are very well trained
and respond to commands quickly. We took them to the dog park and walked them around
and through a couple tennis balls. After they had had a good play we went to
head back to the car. Near the car park there was a spigot and a basin full of
muddy water. Of course, all three dogs bee lined straight for that muddy basin
and began rolling around in the dirty puddles surrounding it. And naturally, we
did not bring a towel or blanket or anything to dry them off with… We ended
putting them in the back of the car anyway and Anna hosed them down once we got
home. We then went out, grabbed a pizza and some Lift (Lemon Soda) took it down
and ate on the beach.
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| Pizza on the Beach |
The next day we got up quite early, got some take away coffee
and took it to Dee Why Beach. There was some sort of rowing training/competition happening
so we were watching that. The actual rowing was happening about 80 meters North
of where we were sitting. But whenever the teams would come back in they would
jog over to where we were sitting to do their stretches or strategy talks. We
started to feel a bit creepy because we would just lie there and stare at the
athletes in their budgie smugglers. But it’s not our fault they kept going to
the plot of sand in our direct sight line…
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| Dee Why |
“Mums Group” Get together
Dan and Mark hosted another gathering of families from “Mums
Group”. I’m still not entirely sure what that means. I think it just means
families who have kids around the same time get put into groups to go through
the experience of child rearing together. Or maybe it’s just another excuse for
Aussies to have a BBQ and a few drinks. Anyway, it was a nice day with lots of
fun in the sun, pool time and back yard Cricket. After such a big day, the boys
went to bed early.
That night while Mark, Dan and I were sitting on the lounge
watching T.V. we heard Harry stirring up stairs. At first we could hear him
walking around and we all kind of assume that he was going to the toilet. But
it sounded like he was pacing around so we thought something might be up. We
then heard him walk down the hall and start to come down the stairs. I assumed
he would come into the living room and say he couldn’t sleep or he had a bad
dream. But he comes down stairs and, grabbing his crotch, walks straight into
the kitchen without even looking over at us. That’s when we put it together
that he was sleep walking. Dan went over to him to check it out, and when she
got over there he looked at her very sleepily and said “Nunchucks”. Then he
proceeded to wee all over himself and the kitchen floor. Dan hollered at Mark to get a towel.
All three of us just started laughing trying to process what just happened.
They got everything cleaned up and put Harry in the shower and into some fresh
pajamas. The funny part is, he will not remember any of this tomorrow.
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