Word(s) of the Day - Jet Lag
Wednesday 29th August 2007
at 05:49pm
Let’s just start today’s entry with the truth. Neither Kelly or I got even half as much sleep as we needed before the night took a turn for the worse. Word to those out there looking to give their 2 year old a glass of Snapple before bed.....don’t, no hang on.....DON’T.
What looked like a bottle of healthy, fresh, nutritionally fulfilling fruit juice turned out to be a ticket for him to go completely crazy. For all those Simpsons fan out there, you know the episode where they are staying in a haunted house and Homer has his creature comforts taken away? It ended with the all-time classic scene where Homer, reading his freshly scrawled walls quotes “No TV and no beer make Homer something something” finished by Marge answering “Go Crazy?” Homer then says “Don’t mind if i do” and goes totally nuts. Well that was our little boy Ben for half an hour or so. He was absolutely gorgeous bouncing of the walls the way he was and going up and down and up and down in the “alligator” (elevator) but we did expect him to be asleep a little earlier than he was and that, was the story for much of the night.
Luc was asleep, then Ben was asleep, then Luc was awake, then Ben was awake, then Luc stayed awake for the best part of 2 hours and Ben thought that that, at 115 in the morning was a good time for 2 bowls of cereal and a spot of Toy Story on the iPod. Whilst it was the middle of the night his call-out to Kelly that he was “hungee” was totally priceless.
Anyway, we got through the night and our boys, who are usually both up watching Dora by 7, had to be woken at 10 for fear they were never in fact going to wake-up at all.
We spent a few hours at the Santa Monica Plaza and 3rd Street Promenade which was quite an event we must say. Whilst there we met Andrea, a UW alumni who, thanks to Ben’s Packers hat, stopped us in the street to talk Green Bay the Packers and Wisconsin. It was so great to stop and chat for a while about something that was common to us all. After some playing in the toy shop, Our kids that is, we headed back for what we hope is going to be a much more settled night’s sleep.
If the Packers thought pre-season training was tough perhaps they should come and spend a few nights with us. That’d sort them out I reckon.
Comments
Fri 07th Sep 07
at 10:51am
I still can’t believe you actually there, Here inOz it’s Raining, cold and down right crap weather, so your not missing a thing really.
I did try to visit you before you left but you had already left, thanks for saying goodbye 
Fri 07th Sep 07
at 10:11pm
Hi Wayne and Kelly, Ben and Luc!
This is to say that it is such a pleasure to have now met you in person after two years of email, and to help welcome you to our fair land. I think that your adventure is wonderful and i admire your “stones” in going about following it through. I know that you will be welcomed with open arms wherever you go, and you will have many new friends when you return to Sydney. I hope that our Packers have a good year to make this all the more worthwhile, but even if not, it will be a tremendous journey. And you won’t be one of those people who regrets the “what if’s” or “if only’s” in their life!
May the force be with you!
Tari
Sat 08th Sep 07
at 12:00pm
well it was nice meeting you wayne and kelly and kids, hope you love the stuff I gave you, since I live within walking distance where you are staying, I am sure we will see each other again, enjoy your stay and time here, have fun with your dream and I hope everything goes well for you, see you again one of these days.. paul bader