Hurry up and wait

Today was our last day in Melbourne. Why is it that there is always so much to do at the last minute? The day started early with me taking Jade to her final day of gymnastics training for the year. Because her club is undergoing some end of year cleaning her squad was scheduled to train at Waverley--over a 30 minute drive across town for us. Jade trained there yesterday from 9 to 1 and today from 8 to 12. Yesterday she saw the three Waverley girls selected for the Beijing Olympic team. Not bad company to be around!

We also found out yesterday that Jade is going to be competing as a Level 3A next year--skipping Level 2 altogether. I'm still kind of in shock, but pleasantly, about that one.

This afternoon has been the usual last minute clothes washing and house cleaning and tidying up. Jade also wanted to take a small photo album with photos of her room, toys, trampoline, violin and other things of 'hers' so the kids took my camera and wandered around the house taking photos. I'm now printing them off. The idea for doing this arose during another trip overseas when Jade was concerned that she couldn't remember what her room looked like. I wanted to aleviate these concerns and I think she's really going to enjoy looking at this photo album during the trip.

Tonight's dinner is pizza and cake left over from morning tea at Paul's work. Very healthy! The taxi comes at 7am tomorrow morning.