Trip Tale
I'm back! In Canberra with internet access that is. Did you miss me/notice I was gone?
It was only about a week, but I started to crave the internet by the end. Half the time I was even out of mobile phone range! Crazy, no? And inconvenient sometimes, too. Like the day we were going to leave my aunt and uncle's house near Inverell (way up north) for Scone (slightly less north). We prepared to leave at the same time as my aunt, uncle, cousins and cousin's boyfriend set off to go waterskiing. We couldn't go, we wanted to leave early, etc. etc. They drove off down the road and my sister started off down the driveway and onto the road and we all heard this clanking, scraping sound. Which worried my sister no end. So she drove slowly, and my parents were speculating as to what it might be, when something fell off. We stopped, found said thing, realised that it was a shock absorber bit and that the absorber was scraping along the ground. We turned around.
So there we were, stuck at my aunt and uncle's house, on a farm in the middle of nowhere, without any mobile reception at all and unable to get into the house. And it was hot. We tried to break in, tried all our phones, tried the cars in case they'd left keys inside, my dad walked up the hill to try to get reception, nothing. Eventually we found that one of the motorbikes worked, so my dad rode off over the hill to my uncle's parent's place to ring the NRMA, a dog trailing along in front of him. The rest of us waited on the verandah and played with the 21-day-old kittens. Awww...
An hour later my dad came back with said parents and tools, but without dog. The NRMA man had said he wouldn't do anythign until Monday, and to just take the shock absorber off. Another half an hour later that was done. Eventually we got into the car. We had started to leave at around 12, we finally left around 2 or 3. To start our 5 or 6 hour car trip. We were three hours late to Gran's house, and she'd had dinner ready for when we said we were going to arrive. Anyway, it was a long day overall. This was the day you were all off at Gershwin. Oh, the pain of it all.
So that's one thing. Will write more later I suppose (just try and stop me!).
It was only about a week, but I started to crave the internet by the end. Half the time I was even out of mobile phone range! Crazy, no? And inconvenient sometimes, too. Like the day we were going to leave my aunt and uncle's house near Inverell (way up north) for Scone (slightly less north). We prepared to leave at the same time as my aunt, uncle, cousins and cousin's boyfriend set off to go waterskiing. We couldn't go, we wanted to leave early, etc. etc. They drove off down the road and my sister started off down the driveway and onto the road and we all heard this clanking, scraping sound. Which worried my sister no end. So she drove slowly, and my parents were speculating as to what it might be, when something fell off. We stopped, found said thing, realised that it was a shock absorber bit and that the absorber was scraping along the ground. We turned around.
So there we were, stuck at my aunt and uncle's house, on a farm in the middle of nowhere, without any mobile reception at all and unable to get into the house. And it was hot. We tried to break in, tried all our phones, tried the cars in case they'd left keys inside, my dad walked up the hill to try to get reception, nothing. Eventually we found that one of the motorbikes worked, so my dad rode off over the hill to my uncle's parent's place to ring the NRMA, a dog trailing along in front of him. The rest of us waited on the verandah and played with the 21-day-old kittens. Awww...
An hour later my dad came back with said parents and tools, but without dog. The NRMA man had said he wouldn't do anythign until Monday, and to just take the shock absorber off. Another half an hour later that was done. Eventually we got into the car. We had started to leave at around 12, we finally left around 2 or 3. To start our 5 or 6 hour car trip. We were three hours late to Gran's house, and she'd had dinner ready for when we said we were going to arrive. Anyway, it was a long day overall. This was the day you were all off at Gershwin. Oh, the pain of it all.
So that's one thing. Will write more later I suppose (just try and stop me!).
posted by Catie at 12:28 pm
9 Comments:
Yes, but the question now is: where is that dog?
it came back later
darn, I thought it became roadkill.
Oh oh, Valentine's Day plans will be coming up soon. ;)
yay! since currently my valentines day is looking fairly empty
Haha, it looks like for Val day i'll be at a galvinising plant. How romantic (lol).
You think that's romantic: first time in who knows how long that I'm actually going out with someone, my Valentine's Day will be spent at work, and the evening, I see, will be spent comforting a lady who's just miscarried and will be coming in for her follow-up appointment. Oh boy.
So I can't even come to a Commiseration. *sulk*
Oh well, now I'll be able to afford refrigeration, though.
well refrigeration is important.
however, us singletons' except for Leach's, Valentine's Day sounds like more fun than Angi's.
what's the plan atm, picnic, moonlight cinema, bottle of wine?
that's not romantic at all :)
I was more thinking, afternoon tea at La Renaissance, perhaps a leisurely walk towards the Opera House, and a romantic dinner for the singletons somewhere. Or you know a movie.
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