Max Was Here

I'm in recovery mode after Max, Beck and Dot departed for Canberra earlier this morning. I'd forgotten how demanding and tiring a 4 yo can be especially when they're as energetic as he is. He constantly wanted to play in the park, build LEGO (we supplied 5 kits in a week and he, perhaps I should have said I, constructed everything from spacecraft to racing cars and a truck), water the cats (sorry garden), have books read to him, look for spiders and snails, hide from us, visit shopping centres and so on. We used to push about in a stroller at our speed, but that's been discarded in favour of running ahead of us as fast as he can go ... which is fast even by my standards.



The reason for the visit was Beck's residential school in connection with her Masters of Resource Management It was only a 4 day school, but they spent 6 full days with us and 7 nights. They flew up late on Sunday 14th September after Beck's team won their division in the Grand Final earlier that morning. I didn't know that her team was sponsored by the Croatian community ... she's an honorary Croatian! Max missed out on this triumph, preferring to go to a birthday party instead. Today, they departed by road on a 10.5 hour drive to Canberra as Dot wants to visit Floriade ... the city's Spring Festival. She'll be back here next Friday, just before Emily and Greg get back from the US. They're leaving Yellowstone today (Oz time) for the comforts of Hawaii.

Yesterday, we took Max to Armidale's SLEX (Sustainable Living Expo). You don't have ot be a genius to work out what this is all about and it was quite an interesting way to spend a morning, not that Max was interested in any of the exhibits except when they offered free balloons.

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