SA Prelude: Snuva's Evil Plan!

OK, this post is a bit of a cop out!  Yes, I haven’t even gotten Day 1 of our long weekend to South Australia finished.  I haven’t even finished logging geocaches!  However since the post draft had a rather long intro before I even had us leaving Hobart, I decided to separate it out into this post.  Just to try your patience and ability to read boring blogs without falling asleep.

For our 3rd wedding anniversary, I decided to surprise Scott with a trip to the mainland.  I try not to mention a lot of the unhappy things in this blog, but I’ll just say that by coincidence since our wedding we haven’t had the bestest of luck and have been through some rather difficult times.  As these things have kept us from doing much travel or even getting out for as much camping and bushwalking as we like to do, I thought a break from it all was in order!!

So one day almost on a whim I contacted Scott’s manager to negotiate a couple days off for him, then booked some flights to Adelaide before she could change her mind!  I didn’t really know what we might want to do in Adelaide.  The reason I chose Adelaide is that Scott had been there last year when his parents were in an accident, and he hadn’t had an opportunity to see much .  There were many places and people in South Australia that I would have liked to visit, but as we were only going for a long weekend I thought it would be best to not stray too far from Adelaide.  I booked our accommodation and a car, but left everything else free and loose.  Oh – and made certain I had enough Pocket Queries to cover caches we might pass. 

One extremely important question that needed answering was ‘who would look after Lottie?’.  I’ve never put a dog into a kennel, and although one had been recommended to me (and I’m sure they do a great job) I just hated the idea of it.  Luckily in the end I didn’t need to!

Ever since I’d met Naomi we’ve been meaning to get our dogs together for a play.  One day in April we finally met up at 7 Mile Beach, and Flynn and Lottie enjoyed playing together.  During the drive home after their gallop together on the beach, I think Lottie might have used the words ‘love’ and ‘Flynn’ in the same sentence, however it was difficult to tell as she was falling asleep from exhaustion after all the running and excitement. 

Flynn & Lottie at 7 Mile Beach

To make certain things would be OK on Flynn’s home turf, I also took Lottie around to his house for a visit.  They played and shared a water bowl quite happily, and Lottie discovered another great thing about Flynn’s house: he had budgies!  Lottie loves budgies – wow, birds in the house!!

Lottie Loves Budgies!

To top things off, Flynn’s person Naomi even fell ill just before we were leaving so she was home with Lottie the whole time we were gone.  I didn’t infect her drinking glass at work; really!

So we were all ready to go!