Today the children and I drove from Faye's down to Bern's cousin Paul and his wife Katrina's property at Isla Bank, where we're house-sitting for them for about a week. The day before, Grace and I drove to Queenstown to put Nernie on the plane back to Canberra for his final month of work at the Bureau of Meterology (is it just me, or does he look really happy to be leaving?!).
While I have feeling that it's going to be a long month, I am comforted by the knowledge that he'll be on the payroll for a little longer. You know, since we currently have no means of income....
Our trip from Bannockburn (Central Otago) to Isla Bank (Southland) took about three and a half hours, and took us through some beautiful countryside. The mountains were swathed in thick mist, which Grace informed us were actually mountain mustaches.
Charlie slept almost the entire way, and at some point Grace found Mummy's make-up bag and very quietly decorated herself.
