A quick update

Well I haven't quite gotten around to loading my Extra story on our blog yet - I will try and do it some day soon! The story was not very glamorous - it was on the "gunk" in kettles!! You know, that build-up of scale that you get on an old kettle? And I'm afraid to say that our poor old kettle didn't look too good on telly!

Weekend before last I was busy training for SES stuff (to be precise I was learning how to run an emergency operations centre, the headquarters for a disaster/event management. I'm much more interested in this than slogging it out in the field!)

This past weekend was a reasonably quiet one (Tony has had the sniffles). We went for dinner with some friends on Saturday night to a tasty Japanese restaurant in the Valley. I tried Sake for the first time - it tastes like warm Listerine or watery cough mixture. Ugh!

I had dinner last night with my sister and her girls (Brad is working down the coast this week). Goodness me, little Annika has grown so much! She's not far off crawling! And Sharda is doing so well at Prep - she can read some small words already!

Today Tony and I made a bit of a spontaneous decision - Jet Star were doing really cheap flights to launch their international routes. On a whim we decided to go to Vietnam for two weeks over December/January. Goodness! When I woke up this morning I had no idea we would have booked flights to Ho Chi Minh City by lunchtime! But we're both really excited about it and have now got another new adventure to look forward too.

This coming weekend we have another little adventure - although slightly closer to home. The three of us (me, him & our fur kid) are staying in a cabin near the southern end of Lamington National Park (near the border). There's the rainforest, creek and rock pools on the property for us to explore, as well as a cosy log fire and beautiful views. Divine.