Well, we did it. After a day of packing and cleaning and more cleaning and more packing we finally got everything into (or onto) the car. David, bless him, packed the car up and then came in really pleased that he had managed to fit everything in - and then noticed the carpet cleaner my mom had loaned us (which in the end we didn't even use because we ran out of time). After some cursing and walking round the car, he took out a suitcase and we strapped it to the roof of the car with bungee straps. We collected up our coats and bags, turned out the lights and locked the door for the last time around 8.30 last night and then drove down to my parents' in Ceres. I was so exhausted that I zoned out while we were on the 12 and didn't wake up again till we were on the 99 and then zoned out again till after we'd exited the highway and were on my parents' road. I have to be REALLY tired or sick to sleep in cars or planes so it's an indication of how worn out I was that I slept for nearly half the journey. When we finally got to the farm at about 11.30 we got out and the suitcase we'd bungeed to the roof had slid down to the back of the car and was hanging on for dear life. We only unpacked the essentials and made our way upstairs as quietly as we could so as not to wake Mom & Dad (which half worked - Dad sleeps like a log and Mom wakes up if a fly lands on the window screen).
Today I've been achy and slow and have spent most of the day sitting in front of the log fire, chatting with Mom or reading old Period Home magazines. I've been down here to visit so often over the last two years that it doesn't feel like we've moved - just like we've come for a long visit. Tomorrow we are visiting with friends and family, Monday is a shopping day, and Tuesday we fly to Brisbane, so after the last few weeks it was essential to have a day like today. We will be seeing family in Australia but I'm hoping that most of the time will be for lounging around the house and the pool, relaxing and soaking up the sun before the whirl of getting ourselves back to California and then on to what will no doubt be a cold and wet UK. Evie got an email from a friend in Reading who said that it was snowing there today.
I do want to try and keep up my blog but it's probably going to be patchy for the next month. So if my dear readers (all two of you) will be patient I'll try and occasionally write something worth waiting for.
Today I've been achy and slow and have spent most of the day sitting in front of the log fire, chatting with Mom or reading old Period Home magazines. I've been down here to visit so often over the last two years that it doesn't feel like we've moved - just like we've come for a long visit. Tomorrow we are visiting with friends and family, Monday is a shopping day, and Tuesday we fly to Brisbane, so after the last few weeks it was essential to have a day like today. We will be seeing family in Australia but I'm hoping that most of the time will be for lounging around the house and the pool, relaxing and soaking up the sun before the whirl of getting ourselves back to California and then on to what will no doubt be a cold and wet UK. Evie got an email from a friend in Reading who said that it was snowing there today.
I do want to try and keep up my blog but it's probably going to be patchy for the next month. So if my dear readers (all two of you) will be patient I'll try and occasionally write something worth waiting for.
Fly safely, Wendy.
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