When we moved back to Australia in December 2019 (after a year of living in the UK), we thought we’d only have to wait 18 months to see friends and family again when they came over for our wedding. Little did we know there’d be a global pandemic postponing those plans, so 2.5 years later along with 6-month-old Ruby, we were ready to make our way back for a whirlwind meet n’ greet.
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Every six months or so, I feel an intense longing to be outdoors — to sit around a campfire, sleep in a tent, and wake up in the fresh air with a stove-made cup of tea. Must be my Girl Guiding years deeply ingrained into me. Even if it’s just for one night, the experience completely re-sets me, and the opportunity to explore somewhere new is a bonus.
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The day before I went into hospital to have Ruby, I was sat at home bored — everything was clean and organised, I’d watched a ridiculous amount of Netflix and I was ready to roll. Thinking ahead, I wondered when Joe would be next off work after his paternity leave ended and decided to book us a little getaway over the Christmas break. I knew the baby would be three months of age by then, so we’d be well into the swing of things and ready for our first family adventure.
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As I entered my third trimester, we wanted to plan a ‘babymoon’ for a final adventure before the baby was born. Staying at The Langham in Melbourne, the original plan was a winter getaway. I wanted to wrap up warm, walk the city streets and parks, enjoy a luxury hotel, maybe catch a show, and eat my body weight in treats. But, with the borders closing again due to Covid, it was not meant to be and the entire trip was cancelled a couple of days before.
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If I had to write down my dream weekend away close-to-home, Harry Potter, country air, and a historic house would come pretty darn close. About a week before the long Anzac Day weekend, a few friends and I spontaneously booked a trip to Laceys Creek, an hour’s drive north of Brisbane.
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Well, 2021 started with a bang as not far into January, I discovered the happy news that I was pregnant. With time feeling like it was going very slowly, I wanted to book a local getaway for the end of trimester one as something to look forward to, and ahead of sharing our announcement with everybody.
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Her Cup of Tea 