Just Another Manic Monday

Actually the title of this is untrue. I actually had a pretty great day as far as that goes, I just thought of that song. So I had made all these tentative plans for the week so that we would be busy busy busy! Well all those plans basically went to shit today! Not really in a bad way, but just moving somethings around etc. We will still be busy I just don't know in what order yet.

We couldn't go to the grocery store because it was raining this morning. So instead we went to the play centre. (See photo) This place is a gold mine for the people running it. So this women leases this little area from her brothers arena (probably getting a hefty family discount), got a bunch of ride on toys, a few foam blocks and a bouncy castle. Then she fleeces parents for $10 a head for every child. Frig I should just move here and open myself a damn play centre. I mean don't get me wrong, the kids had fun and it was a great place to go and play on a rainy morning. However the equipment that was there was not worh $10 per child. So we stayed there for like 4 hours, ate lunch and then Peter came and picked us up. The kids had a late nap, and then shortly after they woke up it was time for supper to get started and the parents take over from that point. So it was overall a pretty chill day.

Tomorrow I might take them into Parramatta for a picnic, and then swimming on Wednesday. You see part of the reason my plans went to shit is because Peter is going away for work on Thursday and Friday so he won't be able to drive us to or pick us up from the aquarium, but I do still want to try to get there by the end of the week. School holidays start Monday and I would like to do that stuff before the kids are on holidays, it will cut down on the lines/crowds. The other thing is Peter's parents are coming into town from New Zealand on Thursday, and are going to want to spend time with the boys, they just don't know when or how long or anything for that matter. So I guess I am back to flying by the seat of my pants.

Before I depart for the evening there is one more photo I took. I took this one for all people in Halifax that get all nerved up everytime they must drive the Armdale Rotary (ahem..Andrea....ahem!) Here in Sydney there is no such thing as a 4way stop. Instead they have rotaries at every intersection without lights. So from small one lane suburb rotaries or two and three lanes in bigger intersections, you can't go anywhere around here without driving a rotary. I thought that was interesting. Oh and also if you are crossing these rotaries as a pedestrian (which is like crossing at a 4way at home, and usually unavoidable).....well the protocol goes as follows:

1. Pray

2. Look for oncoming traffic in the first lane you must cross(incoming or outgoing)

3. If there is a big enough gap, make a run for it!

4. If you make it to the median inbetween the incoming and outgoing traffic, praise alah that you made it this far.

5. Check other lane for oncoming traffic.

6. See step 3

7. If you make it safely to the other side of the street get down on the ground and kiss it, because you are lucky you didn't get killed by those crazy Aussie drivers!

I am tellin ya, being a pedestrian here in Sydney is risky business.

That is all for today. Word to your mother!