We're all going on a summer holiday

 Just like our last Eden holiday suddenly ended with bush-fires and us scurrying to make our way home, this year's holiday ended much the same with us having to leave quickly due to the border closing.

It started out all lovely though. After Christmas, mum woke my family and I at 4am to make the 6-8 hour drive to New South Wales. I had packed earlier in the week so I put my bags in the car, got dressed and brushed my hair and teeth and then off we went at 5.20am.

 

I slept on and off for most the the drive there, eating two McDonald's hashbrowns for breakfast and sharing a souvlaki with my sister for lunch when we stopped in a small town in the middle of nowhere.

For hours and hours, we saw trees that were burnt from last year's terrifying bush fires. They were very skinny and black with bits of leaves growing on the sides of them, not the top. It looked like we were driving in some sort of Dr. Seuss-ville. There must have been MILLIONS of trees like that. It served as a reminder that despite hardships, life goes on.

When we arrived at Eden, Mum and I did a little food shop at the supermarket and then set up the cabin. We chatted to our neighbours then sat with our cups of  tea by the beach and the day was soon done.

WEARING:

 A cotton pink maxi dress - Hand-me-down from mum. I also wore it on holiday here in 2019. It's perfect for hot days.

Sunglasses- A few dollars at an op-shop.

Butterfly pendant- Secondhand market. I am absolutely obsessed with butterfly pendants/brooches at the moment and have been wearing this pendant with everything.

 

The next morning, mum and I went for a walk up and down the beach. It was quite hot, even at 8.30am. My family spent some time swimming and I sat on the sand under a palm tree taking photos of them and reading. I was half way though re-reading 'Elvis and The Memphis Mafia' - an excellent Elvis book by his friends and cousin.

 

My family joined me sitting by the rocks and we chatted, people watched, drank tea and ate some panettone that had lots of orange bits. It's an Italian tradition to eat this sweet bread around Christmas time and it was so flavorsome, probably the best we've tasted (and from ALDI- who would have thought)! I didn't put on sunscreen as I thought I'd be okay sitting in the shade, but I didn't count on windburn which would come back to bite me.

For lunch we ate spaghetti with cherry tomato sauce and prawns. It was so delicious that we decided we wanted to eat this often throughout our holiday. In the afternoon, we walked around the Eden shops but most had closed probably due to the crushing combination of bush-fires and the COVID-19 crisis this year.

I had an nap in the afternoon- bliss! We ate at a Chinese restaurant at a golf course for dinner. It was mostly empty so it was very easy to social distance. We watched Australian classic 'Red Dog' back at the cabin and then I read before going to bed.

All in all, an ideal, relaxing day on holiday.  I'll share more holiday tales in my next post. See you next week. X

 

Title: Summer Holiday.

(The perfect song to sing on the drive to a holiday).