Odds, ends, swimming and Kangaroo Island

The school day finally ended in the early afternoon after much difficulty - it will get easier right? While the kids played in the sprinkler, Jen and I did some planning and administrative work (organizing our lives for the next 4-6 weeks). As my provider number won't come through until Friday we've decided to trek to K.I. (Kangaroo Island) for the weekend and managed to get things sorted for an early departure in the AM. After detailing the mighty Kluger we joined the Murray Bridge Amateur Swim Club for a session. I wasn't sure what I would be able to manage as the last swim I did was in Hobart about a month ago and I barely got in 1200ms! Fortunately, the fast lane wasn't all too fast and by the second set I was third in line and still cruising. We managed to get in almost 3 km - a good start to the new fitness regime! Aidan and Cole found a group as well and had an hour session which went well.

We managed to kick ourselves out of bed at 6 AM this morning to get on the road for the ferry at Cape Jervis and onward to KI. All informants (Fiona - our GPS, Google Map and the ferry company booking agent) had indicated the trip from Murray Bridge would be almost 3 hrs and we were booked for the 10 o'clock sailing. As we made it to the highway, Piper piped up " I'm gonna be sick mommy!" and sure enough the dry retching began - guess we weren't done with the tummy flu! We followed the Google Map as it seemed more direct and in about half the time were essentially there. A quick coffee and pee stop and we were at the terminal ready to board an hour earlier than expected. They let us on the earlier sailing and caught me on the phone while trying to load - I was trying to check my Visa Balance - as you do in the line up waiting to get on the ferry - needless to say the ferry operator directing traffic wasn't too impressed and got into me for trying to do 2 things at once - didn't realize it was a problem as I usually have to juggle double that amount at once just to keep my head above water. Fortunately, I didn't kill or damage anything in the process. Once on KI the rain started and gradually built to torrential proportions so we found our lodging and got into the school work again - perfect for a rainy day! Sicky girl has seemed to escape any further retching so is hopefully en route to recovery. We'll head to the Sheep Dairy this arvo to watch some milking and sample some cheeses, yoghurts or anything else that may be on hand. Hopefully we'll find some sun tomorrow.