The night flew by with eager anticipation for the morning, unfortunately the many years of eager mornings have taken hold of my energy; I slept in until 6. The fact that I can say that a 6AM wake up is a sleep in is proof that time goes on whether I want it to or not.
As I write this my girlfriend corrected me from a 7AM sleep in to a “10 to 6” sleep in. She’s right of course, but I have to have some dignity (as I change the 7AM to 6AM in front of her). But I digress, on with the recap.
Frantically getting together all of the last minute things to go into the car, looking forward to that McDonald’s breakfast at Nudgee service station soon to come. Phone charging cables, sleeping clothes worn the night before, toothbrush/toothpaste etc. All in the car, packed neatly and ready to go.
My sister who had just come off of a overnight shift came to give me a hug, which was nice, I picked her up off of the ground a little. I’m going to miss her, though we don’t talk much, we are somewhat close. The two dogs she has came by with as much excitement as they always do, which is too much to measure, not that I want to measure it.
We leave with my parents, they in one car, Candy (girlfriend) and I in another, head up the street, out to the highway, heading southbound for Nudgee. We stop there for breakfast and before long we’re off, over the gateway bridge, out of Brisbane, past Ipswich (locked doors) and the rest of it is a blur of green fields, stranded fences, cows, sheep, rocks, rocks with legs (more cows) etc.
At one point Candy tried to take a picture of a cloud rolling off of a mountain (with her new polaroid camera), but the flash was on, and it didn’t turn out so well. It’s the thought that counts, I’m sure the cloud feels appreciated.
Through Warwick and then a few more hours to our rest for the night at Mother of Ducks Lagoon in Guyra (NSW). Where we set up, took the dog for a short walk, made him a flower crown (out of white daisies), took a picture, then had dinner.
All of this happened before 7:45PM, at which point the sun decided to kiss the horizon. Time works strangely here, I know it’s because of daylight savings time, but it still feels strange.
We clean up and get ready for bed, Candy and I hop up into the rooftop camper and I jump onto my blog to create this monstrosity! She (as said above) reads over my shoulder and corrects me every now and then for grammar and punctuation.Only had to put in three commas so far, doing well!
Now that she’s laid down again I can go back to the horrible form and post it before she can read it. Haha! A small win for me! … I love her. She’s a nice person I swear.
Now I sit in my pyjamas (moustache bear pants and “happy little vegemite” T shirt) finishing off this post, wondering how many hours of sleep I’m actually going to get, if the sun wakes me up, and I go to sleep now (9PM daylight savings time) that’s… a lot of hours. Never the less, on to Dubbo tomorrow (day 2) which is about 5 hours from here to see the western plains zoo on day 3.
If you want to view pictures Candy takes from her phone on instagram, you can find her through Candy’s Instagram
But I will upload a selection of images here every now and then.
Goodnight!
