End of an uneventful school holiday, where Dad and Huff spent a lot of time together cleaning up her room, making space to move furniture around, and then helpfully replacing a lot of the things again, so the work there isn’t complete. Hopefully the cousins are enjoying some of the toys we found in her room that she is now too old for.
One highlight was rediscovering Dad’s copy of the book “the Hungry Cat” – a classic book that perhaps hasn’t aged well.
Most of our holiday outings were food-based: the kids massively over-ordered at this cafe, where the shakes were bigger than anything we were expecting.
The kids are still playing together amazingly well. Here’s Huff holding the video game controller that lets them both play games on Puff’s laptop.
The playing continued into the part of the housewarming where all the food had been eaten and the grown-ups were talking.
For a combined celebration of Mum’s birthday and Puff’s end-of-exams, we went out for dumplings to a place with a robot cat waiter.
Puff really enjoyed the novelty of it all.
Here we are enjoying one of Mum’s signature amazing parking spots. Not photographed, when we were in the Blue Mountains, wanting to stop at a particular store in a very busy Leura, just as we arrived near the store, a car pulled out, leaving Mum to drive into the perfect parking spot. Again.
Dad decided to take Huff out for mochi ice cream to celebrate a mid-holiday milestone.
Oh, and we managed to go out to our favourite ramen place in Newtown in search of the kids school holidays special (possibly the last time either of the kids are small enough to participate in kids meals).
And now of course we are back to the normal throes of term four, the downhill run to the end of the year!