Back from Holiday

Sadly, I'm back from my holiday to Brisbane to visit my darling sister Bams, V her boyfriend, and Mel, Kris and Hudson.

Libby and Thomas shot off to Townsville for further R&R whilst I am back at the office trying to make sense of Application Development frameworks I am meant to be evaluating.

I had such a good time in Brisbane. Little Thomas and I had an awesome time at Southbank swimming in the toddler's pool and the fake beach thing they have there. It's such an 'American' thing, a fake beach, but I couldn't help but enjoy it. Thomas really got a kick out of making his little feet disappear in the sand underwater.

It was great to catch up with K who has segued fantastically into the parenting role. Little M is keen to get back into shape after the birth of little Hudson (who is a puke machine from my observations!) but both seem pretty relaxed. They're dong well.

It's a about fifty days to go now but work's ordered a shutdown over the Christmas break which has changed my plans for the birth of the LU3. I'll take the day off and then the final fortnight over Christmas in December.

It will be a great chance to reflect on how fortunate I feel to have a loving wife, a nutbag son, a slightly neurotic dog and a roof over my head. Interesting times certainly are in front of us, but life is much less the dollars you make than the way you touch the lives of the people you meet. Money can be remade but relationships are not so mechanical.

When the wife and child return I will post a couple of photos from the time away.