Last time to Glanmire for 2009

Drove up to Glanmire on Friday morning - glad to get out of the city and tried out going via the M5 and M7 to get to the base of the Blue Mountains - easy peasy ( although you have to pay tolls). Lovely drive up - but the country was burnt brown - such a change from the end of October when it was beautifully green. They really need rain - even the creek was dry and there was no pool by the bottom fence - hopefully they will get a good rain soon, or even a little rain. The top dam is really brown.

Taught the kids to make Xmas decorations the old fashioned way and then for another walk up the hill. HAving seen the little JAck Russell terrier kill a snake in front of his kennel a few days earlier it was not problem to convince everyone to wear shoes! but we didnt see anything untoward. Lots of little bunnies about - maybe the breeding cycle got accelerated in the spring! I even saw a black kangaroo wheni went for a walk at sunset. Samantha was quite amazed at "pink" clouds - how do you explain pink clouds to a nearly three year old!

Bought all the Christmas presents - and left them wrapped for two weeks time, and got some little bundles to take home with me.

Incredibly easy trip back home - less than three hours. So work for another five days and then back to NZ.