let me try that again

Being stupid, I am persevering with firefox.

So, after Sal and AJ were settled into their morning routine I headed out. The route is fairly straightforward. About a km to Saddleback Mountain road which leads to Saddleback Mountain. The run is quite challenging. I manged to run to the gate 400m from the top, 7.5km into the run. I walked to the top, had a breather on the lookout platforms and then headed for the bush track that runs off the back of the mountain. I ran the track - bloody steep, through a nice bit of remnant rainforest, until I met the Hoddle track. I was feeling somewhat isolated up there on my tod, so when the GPS clicked over 10km I turned for home, back the way I'd come.

The run was lovely. Yellow tail black cockatoo, eastern rozella, pheasants and a wallaby. Well, I think it was a wallaby; either that of a cougar or small bear or an enormous dog. I drove Sal up the hill later that afternoon and we saw a snake on the road. Not sure what type, but probably deadly. Cows and horses as well, what with the road going through farmland. The view from the hill is spectacular. Not sure how much of the NSW coast you see from the mountain; shitloads though. You will have to take my word for all of that, or go google, because I was running and didn't take a camera.

Scores on the doors; 48mins to the top, 26mins mincing about at the top and 38mins back down again.Sweaty. I was back at around 09:00am to find the rest of the household just getting ready for the day and Jo rustling up breakfast. After a little mix-up in which I managed to eat Sal's breakfast, leaving her, as she put it, "fucking starving" we headed down to Kiama where there was an easter fare of sorts and the kids went on an easter egg hunt and had their faces painted and Sal, eventually, had a Red Rooster Chicken roll.

It was a nice enough (I'm sure I posted about my view on the word "nice") and I'm sure I'll get more used to these bimbling mornings as AJ gets older and mobile. As an aside...while on the waterfront I took six shots that I hought I may be able to stitch together somehow...and lo, today I downloaded Autopano for free and produced the picture above. Neat huh? You can see the full size on flickr.

The afternoon was a tad weird. Jo was working, Sal was tired, AJ sleeps in the afternoon, DJ and Jo's kids Wil and Abi were tired and so was DJ. So, Jo at work, everyone asleep. In fact the only person awake at home was me having run 20 bastard kilometres before breakfast. I made the best of it and sat watching the ocean and drinking DJs beer. Nice. And the evening didn't get a whole lot more exciting...with the exception of young Will throwing up pretty much everything he'd ever eaten over DJ. DJ proceeded to go somewhat green, while Will bounced back almost immediately. Lovely dinner, glas of wine and the day petered out. AJ, of course, was simply cute until she went to sleep for another 12 hours.

Right, nearly bedtime, so I'll leave Sunday until later.