Flying High and Home Again

What a Christmas! As mentioned previously, we all lobbed onto a plane on Christmas day and flew down to Sydney. All bags arrived, all children were unharmed and the flight was a breeze.

The following day was our 2nd Christmas and we enjoyed a hot day followed by a small summer storm. Nothing as fantastical as the Queensland storms but a cool change none the less.

My mum lives on a very steep hill with an evil hook to the right at the bottom of it. Since the kids took their scooters with them, they were under strict instructions NOT to scooter down the hill...they were given strict instructions ,twice. While enjoying the cool afternoon, it came to my attention that three children were flying past the window at warp speed. Contrary to former death threats, they were indeed scootering down the hill, hitting Mach III. My rather worried Mum asked if she should go out and tell them not to. You know, we could have done that. You know, we then would have had an entire week of telling them over and over again not to go scootering ....you get the drift. So, I said no. They have to learn...the hard way.

Sure enough, not five minutes later, there was a crash followed by Caitie screaming. Yup, the evil right hook had got her. She had swept round the corner at devastating speed, wobbled, lost control and hit the grass which effectively stopped the scooter cold. When a scooter going at over 40km an hour is suddenly stopped, the law of inertia means that the child ON the scooter keeps right on going...over the top. She had a massive graze down her leg, a small graze on her elbow and more worryingly, she couldn't move her arm. We bandaged it and watched her over the next few hours. There was no swelling, no pain on bending, so it was quite obviously a sprain.

Mind you, they didn't go scootering down the hill again!

The following day we spent wandering around Taronga Zoo. I will post more photographs and info about that another day. I will finish however with this truly lovely photograph from the Zoo which has the infamous "Nuns In a Scrum" (aka the Sydney Opera House) as well as one of the Tall Ships sailing through the harbour.

Cheers,

Cin