December 20, 2006
Animal crackers
We managed to drag Oma and Opa away from their chores long enough on the weekend to take them to the Royal Melbourne Zoo. Jacob made a must-see list of animals which took us the best part of five hours to cover and which he only just made it through before collapsing and falling asleep.
Ron and I put Phase 2 of The-Master-Plan into action and made Oma and Opa Friends Of The Zoo. This means they have unlimited visiting rights with their grandson for the next year. Just the next six weeks will do us.
After the Zoo we all ventured over to the south side of the Yarra for dinner at Grandma's place. Jacob spent most of the evening in the kitchen-sink-cupboard being the pudding-monster after replenishing his reserves with lasagna and Lemon Delicious. It is my favourite desert and has become Ron's since he was introduced to it in Australia. Puddings aren't well-known in the Netherlands and the Lemon Delicious was also a big hit with Oma and Opa so I spent the later part of the evening translating a recipeinto Dutch for Oma.
We were thinking of making a detour on the way home to The Boulevard, Ivanhoe but it became apparent that none of us would be able to stay awake long enough to appreciate the lights. Rather than have the Mazda drifiting eerily through the traffic full of sleeping passengers like some sort of 4WD Marie Celeste we opted to go home and try again another night.
Posted by Faith