Yesterday we fell asleep at around 9 PM, which is pretty good! We fought off sleep for 3 hours! However, it didn't stop us from waking up at about 4 AM. Anthony headed off to work a little earlier since today was kid visiting day, yay! It rained for most of the morning though, a good long drenching pouring kind of a rain. The first thing I thought of was regret for having forgotten to bring my umbrella from the states. So I start considering where and how I can go buy myself an umbrella.
Kids visiting day also means it's my first day at taking the train by myself. Yikes! My adventure didn't start off as well as I had hoped. I was aiming to get on the 12:40 PM train at Williamstown, only to have showed up 1 minute late, so I had to stand around in the cold wind for the 1 PM train. From there, it's 2 stops then the Newport stop which I had to get off at in order to change trains. Fortunately Anthony mentioned it to me otherwise I wouldn't have figured it out. At Newport, I got on the other train and got off at the first stop, Spotswood. From here I have to hoof it. Of course, being me, the no-sense-of-direction self, I immediately exit the train station and go the wrong way, then thinking it was the other direction, go a different wrong direction, before I finally backtracked to the station to go the right direction. Yes....that was about 10 minutes of wasted time and unnecessary walking! Like my calfs aren't sore enough as it is.
I finally make it to the Spotswood AQIS Quarantine and the kids are going bonkers when they see me. I had brought them a bed to help try to make it softer and warmer for them since it has been still so very cold today and as I was bending down to put it on the floor, the kids are pouncing like Tigger. I get punched in the face, punched in the glasses, and a nice long slash across my throat from their overenthusiastic selves. But hey, can't blame them for being so happy. I'd be happy if I greeted myself too. Okay, no not really.
All 3 kids are doing well except Sete. At first I thought she was constipated or ate something she wasn't suppose to and it was painful for her to poo but then I realized she would play then suddenly squat and whimper in pain. I can only guess she might have some sort of urinary tract infection since she squatted about 25 times while I was there and cried in pain each time. The AQIS folks contacted a private vet to come take a look. We were hoping today but they had an emergency at their vet office so they're thinking not until tomorrow morning. Poor Sete, we think between holding her pee on the flight over then holding it the last few days since our last visit because she's trained not to go on concrete, it might have caused an infection. She was stuck to me light glue then to Anthony when he joined us from work.
I hadn't mentioned it before but while Anthony was here by himself, he bought a dog carrier that could be pulled by the bikes. It's so we could take the dogs to the beach, dog parks, or wherever. Well, we took it for it's inaugural trip and yes you would be right to recall that the dogs are in quarantine. So what did we have in it instead you ask? Well, Anthony saw a good deal on an advertisement from LiquorLand, which is the alcohol division of Coles, one of the large grocery chains here, so we both got on our bikes with Anthony pulling the trailer and picked up two cases of Carlton Draught. Yes, our first trip with the K-9 carrier....was for a beer run.
- julie
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