Settling In

Thursday, 29 August 2019

All in all it's not tooo bad being home and no longer having the world's best holiday to look forward to.  

We're all settling back in at school and no-work. The kids seem to be going along fine in their school classes and everyone is well and truly over any jetlag they may have suffered.  Pinto is getting used to us being back too. She was house-sat by a mum with 2 kids, so I suspect we're just interchangable humans in her eyes.

Speaking of Jett, we made it home in time for Jett to play the last game of his soccer season, which was really nice for him and made the cost-per-game of his very short & expensive season slightly less!

I've spent my time unpacking, doing some house things (like replacing the clothes washing machine), and going for some nice runs in the local bush areas.

Last week we went to Launceston for a couple of orienteering events which was nice - the best part was catching up with our orienteering gang, and the super best part was hearing that quite a few orienteers had been enjoying reading my blog while we were away. I normally assume it's just mum and a few of her friends who read it!  Anyway the open forest and relatively featureless terrain did make me wish we were still in Norway though, but only for a moment.

With extra time at home I've been working on baking the perfect Swedish cinamon scroll.  We ate a lot of them in scandinavia including after each day of the Swedish 5-day.   I'm getting close, but I guess it's hard to replicate a commercially made bakery product!

I've also had some time to do a raft of volunteer jobs for Orienteering Tasmania, mostly in areas that I quite like, like designing certificates and map layouts, and scouring the internet for suitable prizes for next year's Australian Championships which Tasmania is hosting.  This weekend Jon and the kids are going to a junior training camp.  Jon (as coach) has been planning it solidly for the last few weeks, as well as during some long nights while we were in Sweden and again in Norway when he had the luxury of a former world champion checking over some of his courses.

So we're all going fine.  At the end of great holidays I'm always so grateful that we have such a lovely place to come home to.