So for those of you who are under the impression that I am just holding Crocodiles and Feeding Kangaroos everyday here, this post should set things strait. If you have read most of my blog then you already know I am down here to nanny my niece, Rain, and occasionally Sky as well. This is some of the things we do.
Usually a few days a week Rain and I walk Sky to school, about a mile and a half away. Here it is choose the street where everyone has a dog or the street where everyone has two dogs.
I have awesome wheels!
And the Sound System is Killer!
We race down the medium hill past the tree stump with the super old monkey and his nephew (who provides him with fruit from the healthy tree), down the semi-small hill, put on our small hill outfits to go up the small hill, and through the walkway we call the train station. After that it is only one street more and we drop Sky off at school after the 'schools cool' high five. Simple enough, but then we have to avoid all the Park Monsters who hang out on various parts of the footpath (Sidewalk). On occasion it is important to hold your breath whenever you walk though the shade but not so much lately. It sounds complicated but with Sky it is pretty simple.
It makes me a bit nervous walking around here because I feel like the cars are less careful about pedestrians here. It isn't expected of drivers to wait for pedestrians the way it is in the states. Not that drivers in the states are super cautious but if you see someone at a corner to cross you stop to let them. Not here. I have to contend with that and train my brain to watch for cars going on the opposite side of the road I am used to.
Even stranger than the drivers on the wrong side of the road is the footpaths (sidewalks). Here in Ayr Queensland, unless you are on main street, there is only a sidewalk on one side of the road. There are even a couple that stop randomly in the middle of the street and you have to cross the street to walk on the continued part of the path, that begins again on the other side. Exhibit A.
Don't worry because it begins again over there.
That is strange yes, but then at every single corner you have to turn down the next street a little bit before you can cross because the paths don't end until then. This is what I mean.
Sure you can just cross at the corner over the grass I guess, but I have my pimp ride that I have to accommodate for and my small passenger, so I take the long rout. Every street corner is rounded or cut off in a hexagon shape so maybe that is why.
I usually get back to the house a little before 9 in which case Rain and I do our own thing. A little of this a little of that. . . .
Bubble Party
Figuring out the juicer (way too much fun)
Making chocolate cake!
Manicures (lots more dangerous than it looks)
making crowns in honor of the queens birthday
then on those days when sky is home and I watch them both we do things like. . . .
reading books
Dance parties ( weird picture but it is the only one I got)
Lunch at the park with more bubbles!
This is Sky's attack position with her stick wand.
So as you can see it is hard work sometimes around here and I haven't even mentioned the Chalk art or the endless Supply of Rainbow Magic chapter books, there is literally no end the those goblin's mischief.
I just have to add this last picture in here. When I was a small child and my hair was finally long enough to fit in a little band I called it a fu fu. I wanted the legacy to continue so when Rains hair was long enough that's what I called it and now it is all she knows, :) together we have fu fu's.
and that fellow humans is what I am doing when I am not trekking through the forest or playing on the beach. Just another day of enjoying life and trying to make the most of it! HOORAH!
