Canberra Christmas

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Originally uploaded by Robubble.

Weather in Canberra over Christmas was variable. It did get warm enough for Ryan to run around unclothed for a bit. We also used the bike seat in the background to explore Weston park - the children's water park had water running in it - and feeding the ducks at the bridge near the GG's. We did quite a lot of eating good food and playing Carcassonne, mostly while Ryan was asleep.

Another activity was a walk around the suburb. You can see the dry. For a short time it didn't feel like a capital city.

Pat and I took a tour round this building.

Party

My Mum is turning 60 on the weekend and we have invited over 60 guests to their smallish suburban house to celebrate. Hopefully the weather will improve from the predicted frigid conditions tomorrow. My father has insisted on doing most of the catering and other arrangements so it will be interesting. My allotted task is the dessert and decorating a photo board. Photos later if I get a chance.

Update

We are well apart from the usual rounds of coughs and colds that come with babies. I had two in a fortnight including while we were away in Falls Creek. Our longest break away for ages! Yes, it was a long drive from Sydney but we stopped frequently, except when Ryan was asleep, and stayed overnight in Canberra.

The parents-in-law have both retired and are gallivanting all over the place. Before skiing with us they went to Queensland and have now gone to visit their other grandson in Indiana. The grandson, Murray is only 10 days older than Ryan. His parents are going to use up their US annual leave to travel with them. I'm envious of the travel. We'd like to go to NZ next year but we have to book it or it'll never happen.

My Mum retires at Christmas so my parents may spend more time with Ryan soon.
He's just stayed overnight with them for the first time so we could go out to dinner for my birthday.

He's very engaging at 18 months. New words and actions appear on a daily basis. It's very easy to get him to laugh and it's infectious.

Skiing

We went away for a week with the in-laws to Falls Creek via Canberra, ostensibly to ski. The season was as bad as we've ever seen it so the four of us only skiied two half days each, taking it in turns to look after Ryan. We did a few walks with him in normal shoes - no snow boots necessary.