Well avid readers [Leah] as I'm now home it seems nonsensical to continue blogging about Australia, but because I want a complete diary of my trip I will finish what I started . . .
After returning from our trip down The Great Ocean Road El made us a lovely prawn pasta [this is her speciality] and we caught up on all the action and I was very grateful to be back in Rupert who by this time felt like home.
Poor El dutifully went back to work the following morning and Leah and I continued our adventures over the next few days by visiting Ackland Street for cake [oooooh custard pastry thingy with icing sugar], drinking lots coffee, eating pizza in a wind storm, going to the fantastic Art Gallery in Melbourne [one of many] to see the beautiful stained glass ceiling and ending up trapped amongst some very ornate silverware. We managed to see Constable's Clouds and some fine impressionists so I was happy. We spent some serious time editing The Cooking Show with what I hope will be hilarious results - I believe it will be posted on Leah's blog if you have a spare 25 minutes check it out - it's probably the most embarrassing footage ever taken of me. I no longer have any shame.
I took Leah to the Reading Room at the library and we spent a few happy hours there together doing what we love best [reading] and I suddenly realised how arrogant it was of me not appreciate my schooling. I was given time [like we all are] to learn for free when knowledge was freely available for the taking and the resources I needed were supplied and I had the audacity to complain about it?! Rob said something interesting on Friday evening, he said that as teenagers we truly believe that education is more for the benefit of the teacher than the pupil. I know I felt like sometimes especially with subjects I didn't like, but for the opportunity to do it again now, at this age; to just be able to study whatever I wanted because I had time and I wanted to learn, I'd bite your hand off!
Anyway, however pleasantly the last few days of my stay passed it was always with the heavy knowledge that I would have to leave. And believe me when I say that it weighed me down just knowing it was coming.
Darling, I can't thank you enough for all the effort you made whilst I stayed with you both. El was incredibly patient and lovely and let us have all that gorgeous time together and had to work! You planned so many things for me to see and do and it wouldn't have mattered if you hadn't because just seeing you again after such a long time was amazing. Leaving was horrible and I cried a lot on the bus to the airport [by the by I was about 3 hours early for my flight] and thought about you all the way home. I am the luckiest person I know to have you in my life and I have no idea how to get through the next couple of months without you all over again.
I had a fantastic time and came home full of energy and very, very happy.
You rock my world, even from the other side of the planet.
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