Whooopsie!

A little bit of this and a little bit of that.

The "this" part first .... been on a 15km bike ride with hubby and little man on Saturday (exercise for the day ticked off).

Although we only live 12km from the city centre we also live very close to the edge of the Swan valley here in Perth. The luxury of that is that we can easily jump on our bikes and feel as if we're in the ouback, we saw cows, bulls, a creek, vineyards and the smell in the air is just awesome. For me, you can take the girl out of the country (been 10 years now) but you can never take the country out of the girl.

Hokey pokey?

I'm sure from the right angle this will make a beautiful photo.

The "that" part. We went to a 4 year old birthday party on Sunday, child care friends of little man's who actually lives in the Swan valley. We drooled as we drove passed property after property. How we would love to live on one of those.

It was a great afternoon and the little boys were looked upon with pride from their parents, how two little boys can be such good friends so early in their lives are amazing. Birthday boy's mum said to me as far as b'd boy was concerned only lour ittle man was coming to his party and no other child, and I had to admit the same, our little man was also talking non stop about it. When it was time to leave he threw the saddest, biggest and most embarrasing tantrum about not wanting to go home. We had to carry him out kicking and screaming.

We decided to grab a short cut on a dirt road, we have a 4X4 right, we can do this on a farm road and as we turn the curve in the road it got thicker and thicker and shabang, stuck!!

Whoopsie!!

We were from the start in 4x4 gear but did not expect the sand to be this loose. After some more deflation of tyres, (handy little gadget we got), a bit of digging, a bit of debris put behind the wheels, the ute just dug itself deeper. We called the farm house on mobile phone but no answer, then hubby decided well he'll just have to walk back there and get another vehicle to pull us out while me and little man waited.

Our rescuers deflating their tyres, even they said they could feel the hungry earth grabbing at their tyres. Luckily we are kitted out and had a proper towing rope too.

As you can see, we were down to the chassis deep in the sand, here being pulled out in reverse mode.

The enemy of the day!

The misleading beginning of the path.

The End!
Let's go the long way round as we came.

It was very funny and exciting although hubby thought I was crazy to think so and I kept on taking pictures while he sweated away.

Afterwards he got in and said to me "You do know this cost me 50 masculinity points dont' you?"

I could only smile!