We picked up Miller after school and he was proudly sporting his bunny ears which he'd worn to the school Easter Parade the day before:
Back to ours where Jo made fajitas for tea for us all - well, all except Kelly, who is practically vegan once more and munches away on salads most of the time.
Thursday 4th April
Asher had another bad night, even although the antibiotics seemed to have pretty much cleared up the infection he had picked up. He vomited in the middle of the night and poor Kelly and Chris got little sleep, so Kelly brought a slightly brighter Asher over to ours first thing in the morning. By now he certainly seemed well enough to go to Casa Bambini but Kelly left it up to us whether to take him there or not. In the end, we decided just to keep him with us all day - and he seemed fine.
We walked to Mitcham Square Mall with Asher in his pram. It was a hot day, hitting 33C, and by the time we got there we were all in need of refreshment. Jo elected to go back to Cafe Ambra so that we could have another of their delicious Portuguese tarts - pastel de nata - and we got coffees for us and a soft drink for Asher, but he was unwilling to sit for long and soon he was off, racing round the mall with Jo in hot pursuit. Eventually we got him back under a degree of control, completed our shopping (home made burgers for tea) and walked back to Grange Road.
Asher fell asleep on the return journey and we managed to get him in to our place without awakening him. He slept for a good couple of hours - no doubt making up for last night - up until it was time to go and get Miller from school, so we decided that I should go back to O'Halloran Hill on my own while Jo stayed with Asher.
I had a dip in the pool to cool down and Asher joined me for a while - although he refused to get fully submerged - the waist was as far as he was prepared to go. Miller had his second sleepover at ours.
This was the day that Kelly and Chris discovered their bid for the house in Old Noarlunga had been accepted. Now the hard work begins - their plan is, all being well, to move in at the end of May. Good luck to them - it'll be a big change and should bring a major improvement in their lifestyle.
Friday 5th April
Chris delivered Asher to ours and I again drove him to his work. We planned to meet up with him later and all go to the first day of the Tasting Australia food festival, but, first of all, once we were all ready, we walked round to the Bond and Lane Canteen cafe for refreshments.
Now, 3 weeks had gone by and still we hadn't even been once to my favourite Adelaide pub, the Wheatsheaf Hotel - "The Wheaty". We popped in for a very quick one - we had the boys with us - and then caught the tram in to the city centre to meet Chris at his office before heading round to Victoria Square for something to eat and drink, whilst the boys had great fun playing in the water fountains - especially Asher:
Chris' brother, Matt, joined us a little later on - unfortunately just a little too late for the family end of holiday shot:
We said our farewells to Chris, Matt, Miller and Asher and then Kelly drove us back to our place where Jo and I finished off the dregs of the remaining beer and wine.
Saturday 6th April
Kelly was bright and early picking us up and we were at the airport well before 9 am for our domestic flight to Brisbane. We "donated" to Kelly and Chris the two bottles of D'Aranberg wine that Jo and I had made up at the wine blending on our first weekend in Adelaide - we hadn't managed to find an evening for the planned blind tasting to decide whose blend was best - Jo's or mine - so we've left it to them to let us know. The wine was recommended to be consumed within a couple of months - perhaps Kelly and Chris can make it their house-warming?
So here we are sitting at Brisbane Airport with way too much time on our hands - our flight to LA was originally due to leave at about 5 pm local time, but it was put back to 8:30 pm, so we've had all afternoon - and a bit - to wait, not helped by the fact that Jo got up at 4 am this morning - she couldn't sleep - so we're both struggling a bit already - and we've still got over 4 hours before our plane leaves. Crossing the international date line for the first time will be interesting - it means we arrive in USA at a local time that's before our departure time from Oz!
So my next blog posting will be from Palm Desert, California. See ya.
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