Antipodal Adventures
Merry Christmas!
Thursday 25th December 2014
Deck the halls with boughs of fake tree,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Things we lost on holiday
Monday 8th December 2014
The next section of my parents' visit concerns our holiday to Queensland. However, I feel it's important to be honest and give you some understanding of a typical Oates family holiday. I therefore present the following list of the things we lost on holiday:
- My passport*.
- My parents' passports
- My glasses
- My dad's glasses
- My dad's camera
- My dad's hat
- My engagement ring
- Jan's patience with this ridiculous family who lose everything
- My mother
But you can all breathe safely - we pretty much found everything again.
* I had put it in a safe place. You know the one - it's so safe even you don't know where it is.
Birthday
Thursday 4th December 2014
Or, cake-for-breakfast day, as it's known in our house. It was fantastic having my parents here to celebrate with me, because:
- I hadn't seen them for ten months, so being able to spend the day with them was super special.
- We got to go to the Opera House for our first time and theirs.
- Having your parents around always makes you revert to behaving like a child, anyway, so I felt much younger than the 21* I was turning.
* What?!
But mainly it was number 1. To start the day, it's a tradition that the birthday person gets a birthday table - including, but not limited to: a cake, flowers, candles, a present, cards, chocolates, miscellaneous sundry treats. This year I got TWO birthday tables!