23rd August 2009

Dear Diary

The trap has been laid. The In laws are none the wiser. It’s just 8 days before we rock up on their door step unannounced. I hope their hearts are in good nick.

I’ve got to tell you, that before today i was really quite sad to be leaving. I’ve been packing for 6 weeks now yet nothing seemed real until yesterday. On Friday (21st) Tim finished work, so yesterday was the day we started not just packing, but dismantling furniture for the move back to Melbourne.

Now it’s all so real.  Just one more week before our things are picked up and taken away.

And then, we go.

But now I’m totally pumped. I’m excited mostly, to see the looks on Nanny and Poppy’s faces when we show up. They have no idea. They think we’re headed up North. They think…we’re 1600 kilometer’s away.

We’ve already been to Australia Zoo.  Tim took a sickie last Wednesday and we went for the day. This was part of the master plan. We got photo’s on Tim’s mobile of Jaxon and I all throughout the zoo. And a few hours before we leave Dad’s to go to their house, we’ll start sending them those photo’s. Just to trick them in to a false sense of security.

Because of course they may well have some suspicions that we’re coming. We don’t know. But they think we’re leaving on Thursday, 27th of August. By the time it gets to Monday surely they’ll have given up on the idea of us coming to see them and just be thinking we really HAVE gone up North, instead of down South.

Then of course, if we can keep our big mouths shut for a day or two, we wont be telling them we’ve MOVED back. We’ll let them recover from the first shock of having us visit first.

I just can’t wait.