soap fairy ...

Before I continue my holiday log I will just mention that today is the first day of term 4, so KT is back at school after 2 weeks holiday and it is also the first day back at work for uni who has had the last 4 weeks on holiday.

The house is quiet and very messy, my routines all went out the window over the last few weeks and I have a strong urge to re-establish order.

We are planning to host Christmas this year so I have the next 2and a half months to get things sorted out before the holiday period begins again.

I also need to finish painting that fence!!!! I don't think I have gone near it for about 2 weeks!

Ok enough of the good intentions ... back to the bunyas ...

********************************************************


On our second day we woke up bright and early (me and KT) and had crumpets for breakfast.

We dressed warmly for the cooler mountain air and once Uni had also woken and breakfasted, we headed down to explore our surroundings.

Uni started us on the 4km scenic loop bush walk. When we went to take our first photo of the trip we discovered that my camera battery was dead. I have to have it recharging right up to the moment I want to start taking photos. Very disappointing, but luckily uni has a camera phone so we did get an occasional holiday shot.

As always the Bunya mountains bush walks are lovely. There was a lot less water there than last time we had visited (before KT was born) and in fact the water fall was only a trickle which took us a bit by surprise.

After about half an hour of walking we passed some older girls and their parents who informed us that they had been walking for an hour an a half. I smiled at the girls feeling certain they were exaggerating the time. We had only been walking for half an hour and I thought we were close to half way at the time.

Another hour and a half later when we finally cleared the rainforest I realized that they had been accurate!!! LOL!!!

We did stop a lot to look around and to allow KT to climb the stranger fig that Uni had climbed 20 years back when he was a kid etc.

By the time we were done I was ravenous! Also very keen to use the toilet since we had completely depleted our water bottle supply.

And so continues the legend of the soap fairy .....

I often feel frustrated when we go for adventures out and about and find that after going to the toilet there is no soap for washing your hands especially when I know we are about to stop for a picnic lunch. I thought I could overcome this problem by buying a product from avon that is in a tub and you carry with you and wash your hands with it ... but I found it messy to deal with and only used it once.

I came up with my own solution to collect the slivers of soap left in the shower once you have used most of your bar of soap.

I don't like to waste things that I think are useful and I had no drama using soap up until it was nonexistent after which I would stick it onto the new soap.

Unfortunately Uni does not share my passion for using every last drop of things (soap, toothpaste, tomato sauce, milk etc) and for some unknown reason it would drive him absolutely crazy when I attached a tiny slice of old soap to the new one. :-P Men!

Anyway after his regular objections I started to collect these little bits of soap, leave them to dry on the bathroom basin and put them into a ziplock bag.

I thought we could use them when we go camping .... and of course now I can carry them in my handbag when we go far afield and take one out each time we use a soap free public toilet and then leave it there for whoever else comes after us to use too. If I think I am likely to return to that toilet again I leave a bigger soap sliver, if it is only a one time visit I use a smaller sliver!

*****************************************************************************

After returning from our bushwalk we had a late BBQ lunch at "Pepperberry" at 3pm.

Just as we were finishing our meal we got a visit from a friend KT had made the previous day.

It was a king parrot .... these guys are green with a red head and are very friendly and not afraid of people at all.

They have regular feeding sessions at the bunya mountains kiosk area, but we brought some bird seed so we could feed some birds off our own verandah.

Uni went to get KT a handful of birdseed while she chatted to the bird, meanwhile I continued to eat my lunch as I was still 1/4 ravenous!!!

When uni poured a handful of food into Kts palm the bird leapt onto her arm and started eating it.

Kt was delighted! She stayed perfectly still and let the bird eat and it was hilarious to see and hear it cracking and dehusking each seed with its beak.

It wasn't long before its mate joined us and uni filled his own hand with seed and joined in the feeding.

I still wasn't prepared to be parted from my lunch and continued to nibble away, but things got cut short when I crunched on my carrot and the birds took off in shock!!!

Oooops .......