Car trip from hell

We put this bib on Noah to catch the spew

2 hours into our trip. Noah was feeling really sick

Watching Playschool

@ Chinamans Beach

Noah goes down slides now on his own.

Art & craft

hhhhhmmmmmmm

The lead up to holidays is always an experience. I always spend the day before we go on holidays cleaning my heart out. It always feels like you have ten million things to do before you leave for your holidays; and most of these things are a complete waste of time as they always need doing when you get home again, but I continue to do it anyway. It is always a very tense time before we go away. I think it is normal because I remember Mum and Dad always being so uptight before we left for family holidays. Once you are all packed up and on the road the tension lifts and sanity returns, that is of course if your 18 month old is not spewing everywhere! We were only half an hour into our trip when Noah spewed everywhere. He was covered in spew and so was his car seat. I instantly thought “great Noah has gastro AGAIN”. We stopped for breakfast and he had something to eat. Another half an hour later he spewed again everywhere. We pulled over again and we tried to clean him up best we could. The lingering smell of vomit in your car is disgusting and it was all we could smell for the next 100km. We stopped in Moora for supplies; baby wipes to replace the thousands we had already used, flannels, Gatrolyte and water. While stopped Richard went mad with my perfume and he also sprayed hairspray all over Noah’s car seat to eliminate the smell. Now Noah’s car seat smelt like a sewer and it was also sticky. Noah did not spew again after that thank goodness. From Moora to Geraldton the car trip went pretty fast. We stopped for lunch in Geraldton and we let Noah play in this really awesome water playground on the foreshore before heading off again. We arrived in Kalbarri just after 2pm and it felt so good to finally be at our destination. We were now officially on HOLIDAYS. We now think Noah had car sickness.

It feels like we have already been here a week. Having children means you fit so much into your day. We go to the beach in the mornings and are home again by ten o’clock. Noah has enjoyed playing in all the playgrounds and I have enjoyed going for long walks with Noah in the pram. It is certainly a lot nicer walking around Kalbarri than at home. The ocean is so more appealing than dry brown paddocks. We are also looking forward to spending some time with my cousin Haylee and her 2 kids. Richard has gone fishing this morning and is destined to bring home nothing. He is the most unlucky fisherman. He went on a charter boat in Queensland and couldn’t even manage to catch a fish on the Great Barrier Reef....What a loser!!!

Did I mention that while here I don’t have to cook or clean? How fantastic is that? Even with all the pre-holiday crap that goes on it is so worth the effort. Holidays are such fun.