Lessons learnt

We have come away from our first full family holiday a little wiser as to what we can do when on vacation with 3 young children, one of whom is under the age of 1.

The biggest lesson I learnt was not to bring the under 1 year old to such a cold climate. His little body, even when working in overdrive, couldn't generate enough heat to keep him warm. Hence, he would screech if we put him onto the sheets to sleep. Too cold.























Second thing I learnt, don't be ambitious. Don't plan too big. The twins were happy with the simplest entertainment. A park with gulls worked as well, if not better than the farm that was four and a half hours out of Perth and was the costliest accommodation we stayed in all through the week. I think we try to justify our trips by wanting to do things we cannot do in Singapore.

True that. But not at the expense of sanity or in their case fingers. Both had their fingers pecked at by the fowl on the farm. Jordan had an entire gaggle of ducks chase her for the bread she was eating. The same thing happened to Evan except the fowl in question were chickens and the food was a half eaten apple.

























We could have however, have had more cook outs. I love the fact that the Aussies barbie in the day. Lunch time barbeques are great because you laze in a food induced haze for the rest of the afternoon, just coming out of it in time for dusk and to go out foraging for more food. All else fails, fire up the fire and throw more stuff on the grill. Steaks are cheap, bread is soft and salads are fresh.

















Spend more time at the beach house. Instead of having split up our stay so much, we should have stayed put a little bit more. And stayed put where we were most comfortable. That would have been the beach house with the barbie pit, the pool table, the ducted heating, the enclosed garden where the twins rough and tumbled safely and of course, the magnificent ocean 2 minutes up the street.























Be able to eat out by the pier and soak in the sun and the cold. Even though it was touristy and probably a little on the expensive side, sitting by the pier in Freo and eating fish and chips out of paper was great fun. The twins ate fish, stole fries, whisked off the foam from the hot chocolate and then excused themselves to go off to chase the gulls. And us adults with Muffin sat enjoying everything around.

Even the twins' Ah Ma wondered how was it that we couldn't do this in Singapore. The answer was that it was too hot!























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