A different perspective

Today we went up to the country town where we lived for 4 and a half years to meet up with others who had travelled in to celebrate the church's centenary. Lloyd was beginning to think that inanimate objects shrink with time. We left the town just before he turned 4 years old. Today he exclaimed over how the metre high wooden rail before the platform at the front used to be a "huge wall" and how the driveway at the side of the church building had shrunk in width. He's around 5 ft 10 in tall at the moment and everything seems so small. I remember going back to England with my Mum when I was 17 and she took me to the street where she lived as a child and she was surprised how small the street seemed now that she was older.


Maybe that's why Mike surprised us on the way up. We were following a car pulling a horse float and were a little bothered by how slow it was going up the ranges as we were a little late. In the picture I took from the front passenger seat you can just see the horse's pointy ears up the front (it was a bit clearer in real life):

Mike suddenly asked, "What is a cat doing in an ice-cream van?"

That's a mighty big cat.

School starts again tomorrow after the spring break, the last term for the year, hooray!