Sunny days… are few and far between at this time of year
Monday 18th June 2007
We arrived at Lorne on Friday night for our week’s holiday (it had to be taken by the 30th June since I had bought it two years ago). In hindsight 3 hours in the car seat for a newborn probably felt like a lifetime. Benjamin was a champ and slept the whole way through until we pulled up at the front to check in, when he would have woken up starving. The drive from the front entrance to our luxury apartment at the back felt like the longest ever so we hustled up to the top floor and I fed Benjamin while Gary unpacked before we could ooh and aah over the apartment.
So far it’s been just like home – being at the beck and call of our wonderful new son – feeding, sleeping, with a bit more awake time now, but at least it’s with ocean views and we have Foxtel on here, so when I’m feeding at 3am at least I don’t have that terrible infomercial mush pounding into my brain.
After checking out one of the local cafes this afternoon (and there are a lot here) and a good browse of the excellent bookshop, we went for a long walk today out to the Lorne pier. Of course we chose the coldest day of the year so far to venture out but we were able to defrost with a hot chocolate in the kiosk on the shore. This was also the place of my first public breastfeed – which went quite well I might add now that I’ve had three and a half weeks practice – and it’s taken that long to get it right! Mind you, he took an intense dislike to the right breast at 3:30am last night, but he seems to have built a bridge since.
