Another day in paradise

I suppose I should refer to our road trip as it would appear we were teleported to Sydney from reading my last post.

To be honest it was pretty uneventful - we didn’t lose any kids, didn’t fight and didn’t encounter any crisis that seem to hog our general daily life.

We took 3 days to amble down the coast stopping at Coffs Harbour one night. (When the kids were in bed we went and stood on the beach and watched shooting stars under the most amazing full moon and just reflected on how we ended up on this mad adventure)

The following few days we drove through the vineyards of NSW and bought wine from lovely wee vineyards and stayed in a great resort where we just relaxed and got ready for the final assault on the unpacking of 300 boxes when we arrived in Wahroonga.

Its been raining almost constantly for the last month so everywhere is pretty green and in some cases pretty flooded but definately a lot colder than in Queensland!

We have more or less no winter clothes to survive the winter in NSW as the temperature very rarely dropped below 16 degrees in Brisbane - so we stopped on the way down in country towns buying jackets and jeans the further South we progressed!

I think the drive down was probably one of my better decisions as it somehow mentally and emotionally prepared us that we were moving - instead of just getting on a plane and arriving at a new house.

So all in all a pretty uneventful but worthwhile exercise - but if you’ve ever seen Deliverance you’ll appreciate some of the countryside and towns we drove through…..