I'm writing this after watching the sunrise over
Coffs Harbour - we're taking my belated Christmas Holidays and seeing some of our beautiful country.
Thus far we've stopped in some obvious and not-so-obvious places with the rough goal of visiting friends in Brisbane and then turning around again. Our parents have taken the opportunity to borrow our house and live in the country for a little while - good for them!
We were a bit apprehensive about how Phoebe would cope with the travel - but we shouldn't have worried. She's fantastic in the car, loves exploring the rooms each night, and delights in finding familiar things like her bag of toys amongst the sea of new experiences.
As for sleep, well that's improved out of sight in the last two months, but is still a challenge at times - as evident from the fact that I've been up an hour now and Liz had a very broken night's sleep. Compared to where we were for over a year with her waking randomly every hour or so though, it's a world of difference. Most nights she now sleeps through from 7-9 through to about 6:30 with either no or only minor wakings due to a lost dummy or similar. We've seen how bad it can be, and this is heaven!
Traveling, we have no fixed plans each day - perhaps to Byron Bay tonight, stopping at a few interesting sounding little places we've heard of but never been to. On the way south from Brisbane (or as far as we get with cyclones approaching) we'll most likely take the inland road to see some of the great country towns there.
Pictures are
all here.