The Blue Mountains
Trishy and John have a weekend house in Blackheath in the Blue Mountains. So we invited ourselves to stay for the weekend. We wanted to get away for a weekend before we were due to return the hospital-style bassinet we'd hired, since it's easy to take with us in the car. (I guess we'll end up getting a portable cot for this purpose.)
We stopped at Springwood for lunch of Blackheath Bakery pies. Tania had introduced these to us when we visited her for lunch long ago BL (before Louka). Graham had steak bacon and cheese and I had tandoori chicken and yoghurt, and they were very nice.
At Blackheath we walked down to Govett's Leap to show Louka the view - and she howled! Maybe she's afraid of heights. So we walked a little way down the Bridal Veil Falls track, where she promptly fell asleep.
That night, despite the strange surroundings, Louka fell asleep at 9:45 and slept for 7 hours and 40 minutes. After changing and feeding her, she felt a little cold so we took her into our bed.
Today is Mothers Day, and Graham and Louka gave me two lovely presents: a cardigan and a garlic chopper (Graham tried out the garlic chopper tonight and it did a good job). Then we walked up to the town to check out the growers market. We bought trout, duck sausages, olives, cherry tomatoes, quinces and plum brandy sauce - a pretty good haul.
We left after lunch to avoid the traffic (which we did) and Louka slept most of the way. She woke up and cried hard at the steep downhill sections, which maybe helped equalise the pressure in her ears. At Emu Plains she fell asleep and didn't wake till we were nearly home.
We stopped at Springwood for lunch of Blackheath Bakery pies. Tania had introduced these to us when we visited her for lunch long ago BL (before Louka). Graham had steak bacon and cheese and I had tandoori chicken and yoghurt, and they were very nice.
At Blackheath we walked down to Govett's Leap to show Louka the view - and she howled! Maybe she's afraid of heights. So we walked a little way down the Bridal Veil Falls track, where she promptly fell asleep.
That night, despite the strange surroundings, Louka fell asleep at 9:45 and slept for 7 hours and 40 minutes. After changing and feeding her, she felt a little cold so we took her into our bed.
Today is Mothers Day, and Graham and Louka gave me two lovely presents: a cardigan and a garlic chopper (Graham tried out the garlic chopper tonight and it did a good job). Then we walked up to the town to check out the growers market. We bought trout, duck sausages, olives, cherry tomatoes, quinces and plum brandy sauce - a pretty good haul.
We left after lunch to avoid the traffic (which we did) and Louka slept most of the way. She woke up and cried hard at the steep downhill sections, which maybe helped equalise the pressure in her ears. At Emu Plains she fell asleep and didn't wake till we were nearly home.
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