We’ve been so busy over the last 6 weeks that the blog has been neglected. Back in Perth we moved house three times and the children went back to school for the remainder of the third term. We had all managed to be healthy during our road trip but two weeks after starting school both Oliver and Emily managed to catch a nasty bug that was doing the rounds at school. As Lou Russ reminded us the children had returned to the ‘petri dish’. It did not help that the house we were staying in was cold, drafty and rain poured through the back door!
Emily running in the school cross country with friends Grace and Georgie
Despite the lack of preparation both Emily and Oliver competed in the School Cross-Country races and both did very well with Emily finishing 4th in the Year 4/5 girls and Oliver finishing 2nd in Year 2 boys.
The school athletics carnival was postponed twice due to the inclement weather but Emily still managed to represent the school at the inter-school athletics and won a 2nd place medal for the Year 4 girls relay, along with Lily, Eloise and Sanyukta.
Emily with Lily at the inter-school athletics carnival
Our beloved camper trailer, Jake, was sold very quickly to a family who were stuck up in the north of WA, having had their trailer written off by another driver on the Gibb River Road. We were sad to see him go but glad that we could help another family finish their dream trip. We also took the opportunity to clear out all the unnecessary items from our storage unit. Its so true that once you have lived without something for 5 months then your desire to keep ‘stuff’ rapidly diminishes.
We had a great final weekend staying with the Campbell family (we sailed the Whitsunday islands with them), they very generously let us stay with them before departing on the 30th September for Nice, France. It was great for the children to be with Lauren and Matthew before we left, they had a great time playing and picking mulberries for one of Kirsten’s wonderful desserts – Kirsten’s fantastic cooking nearly caused us to delay our departure for a few more days (just kidding Kirsten!).