Feb 18, 2009 09:32
My trip to Canada has been going well!
Day 1: Into the deep
Mummy: Let's go out for dinner!
Daddy: Elizabeth, you can drive, it will be good for you.
Elizabeth: On the right? At night?
[10 minutes later]
Elizabeth: Where are the road lines! Curse you road salt! Come back to me lane, please let yourself be known.
Day 2: Party Party Party!
Elizabeth: I am a sparkly fictional goddess who sometimes dresses up as Mentor, I am Athena!
Mummy: I am sparkly!
Daddy: I am an Engineer!
Nathan: I am Link!
Sylvia: I am Super Phi! Da na na na!
Mummy's friend: I am Kermit!
Mummy's other friend: I am an extremely convincing Mozart!
Kerry: I am a priest!
Day 5 and 6: Brother efforts
[9:30]
Elizabeth: Here's your breakfast Nathan. It'd be great if you could eat it.
[10:30]
Elizabeth: Alright Nate, please sit up and eat your breakfast.
[11]
Elizabeth: Excellent, you've eaten your breakfast, do you think you could get dressed?
[11:30]
Elizabeth: Nate, could you please get dressed?
[11:45]
Elizabeth: Excellent, let's go to school!
[2:40pm]
Elizabeth: Nathan, shall we look at the driving manual or C# today?
Day 7: Bye bye back
[reaches for a sock to do laundry]
Elizabeth: Ah my back! My back!
Elizabeth: *spends next 3 days in bed*
Day 10:
Elizabeth: Ottawa here we come!
Day 11: Spend spend spend
Elizabeth: Wahoo, souvenir shopping!
[an hour later]
Elizabeth: $300 (Australian)!!!!!!!! Oh the pain, the pain, so expensive!
Has been fun, and shall continue to be fun.
canada