There's No Place Like Home

Amazingly the girls didn't ask, "Are we there yet?" as we drove and drove and drove this weekend, but Mum, Dad and I were secretly asking it ourselves.  Sarah did say, "Mummy, we want to go home!" within only an hour or so of leaving.

The good thing about a weekend like that is bedtime tonight was blissful (so far anyway!) - I think they're both already asleep, and no-one put up a fight going to bed.  Yippee.  

Though it was a long drive it was a lot of fun.  We're also really grateful for DVD players, I don't think we would have survived the trip otherwise.  We heard the first half of "Finding Nemo" about ten times in two and a half days, and... (spoke to soon, interlude number one while putting Sarah back to bed again...) 

Poor Lucy had tummy troubles (understatement) which is not fun when traveling in a confined space, and Sarah told me at one point on the way up that something was hurting her and soon after that 'something' appeared for all to see and smell.  Poor thing vomited all over her rug and in her bag of travel goodies.  I think it was because she hadn't eaten much when I gave her antibiotics, so needless to say I didn't make that mistake again!  So the car smelt really good, sorry Dad!

At one point, Sarah pointed to Dad and said, "His name's Burger".  It was hilarious coming from her, we call him that all the time but she normally calls him Parney.

Lucy's really confidently walking around now.  Dad calls her "Franky" - she hasn't quite got the bending the legs part down pat, so she does walk a bit like Frankinstein.  It's very cute though.  

I have the best parents - they are amazing.  Not many Grandparents would be brave enough to take on a weekend like that! 

Though it was exhausting driving so far with two little ones, we have lots of good memories, and we finally made it home late last night after basically a whole day of traveling!   Sarah was so excited to be back home.  I enjoyed our little 'holiday', but I agree with Dorothy, "There's no place like home".