Thredbo - I liked It!

One of the great implied traditions of living in Canberra is that you go to the snow every year. I imagine this is in part due to:
* Living but an hour and a half from the slopes makes it convenient.
* Living in a capital city you have more than enough money to afford to go
* The ads tell you that you ought to and who are we mere citizens to deny the beast its measure?

So, after 12 years of living in Canberra I had yet to go to the snow. This is because:
* Even an hour and a half is too long to spend on a bus in my opinion.
* Even being on a relatively high salary, getting by isn't as cheap as it used to be.
* I automatically disregard ads that try to sell me things I'm not already interested in.

I think the latter is a sort of a 'conditioned fiscal safety measure' I've developed from watching too much TV.

Despite all this, I went to the snow this weekend. It was my brothers Bucks getaway thingy. So I could hardly refuse.

I had a great time.

But it was Thredbo. Be advised, Thredbo is for the serious skier. Apart from skiing and snowboarding, Thredbo has nothing to offer you couldn't get anywhere else.

But I am told that Perisher Blue and Blue Cow have a wider variety of 'fun in the snow' available beyond skiiing. Especially Perisher Blue.

So I guess that's next years holiday already planned. These months are also the best time to go as far as weather is concerned.

A Rainy Morning in Canberra

Twas a rainy morning in Canberra yesterday. This was massively inconvenient to me and the Lish. The reason why is, she had to bring Fuzzy Wuzzies mattress in from the front porch.

The mattress was on the front porch because that is where the best sun falls on our property.

We needed the best sun because we were trying to dry out said mattress. the mattress obviously being wet.

The mattress was wet because I had had to clean it with soap and water.

I had to clean the mattress because Fuzzy Wuzzy had wet it.

Fuzzy Wuzzy had wet the mattress with the contents of his bladder. The extent of wetting indicates more than one bladders worth of his urine got into it.

He was able to do this because he has taken to stripping off ENTIRELY at night. He has become quite the nudity ninja as well. Lish and I had no idea he had been disrobing after lights out.

I'm not exaggerating when I say, the puddle of piss he was sleeping in at the time was larger than him. The mattress has a foam core and, thankfully, I think it repelled most of the night water.

If you don't have at least one bed disaster built on a foundation of urine I don't think you qualify as a real parent. We have had roughly 10 all up so far. That doesn't include poonami floods that break the banks and blot the landscape of clothing as far as the eye can see. Always fun those ones. Stare bear has had two of those in the last two days.

Oh the travails.