Shiny Happy People

oooh, hello everyone....very quiet in here tonight, thought I would pop in to share the events of our day.....we had such a lovely START to the day. I woke up to the kids fighting (norm..sheesh) and then through my unpeeled eyelids I realised I had glimpsed SUNLIGHT, yes you heard right...after the deluge of the last week we decided to take the kids for a walk to some local markets...not much on there, oh well off to local discount store to stock up on colouring books and the like for the next rainy day......took the kids to the Lighthouse in South West Rocks to look for whales (where we all deluded ourselves we saw 'something') and then on the drive out of the national park heard the 'flap flap flap'...no not a man eating hawk circling, but our rear tyre had blown on our near 4wd adventure.......trying to find the 'perfect' camping spot and admittedly sniggering at the collapsed soggy tents the previous nights tenants had evacuated.........so fairy's punishment I suppose that the wheelnuts would NOT budge......it took 3 men, some weird looking pipes ( not the nimbin kind) to lever and 1/2 a can of wd40.......nothing. The lovely people who had stopped us had their first kid free day in over a year, they have 5 kids....I felt so bad. Anyway they hooked us up with a friend with a tow truck to get us back to Dad's and the local mechanic around the corner. Some fussing with his you beaut tools and 1/2 an hour later, we have our tyre replaced. No-one would accept payment (except the towie of course lol, but he did it on 'mates rates') The young couple only accepted the token $20 we gave them after we insisted as they had driven back and forwards to their own house to get tools etc and they didnt have to even stop. The Mechanic.....he refused. Amazing.

So a long life reaffirming day. I love days like these when you are reminded about the kindness of people in this world.

I hope they have an awesome night ;)

....and to cap it off, a 'quickie' dinner at Mum's so no dishes...... and kids asleep, snuggled into their beds and it's only 7pm.








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