Family to family with family
Jul. 1st, 2009 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skyringMy sister has been visiting over the weekend. She and her husband and two of the sweetest, most engaging young boys you could imagine. Young K has an interest in Lego, and as it happened I had a couple of boxloads of it left over, which kept the lads busy for much of the time.
Such a delight to catch up with family. My sister lives interstate, and we don't see as much of each other as we should. With her two youngsters, I'm reminded that we're on an escalator; it doesn't seem all that long ago that we were kids together, but here I am, a distant uncle with weird hobbies and a truckload of Lego.
Perhaps I was a little distracted on the weekend. I'd left several tasks undone in my last week of seven night shifts and I was counting on the free time to book a hotel in Tokyo and travel to and from Edinburgh. This worked out longer and more difficult than it should have, with wonky internet and sites that shut down or kicked me out. Not to mention the difficulty of not knowing Tokyo well at all.
But eventually I sorted it out, hugged my guests goodbye, packed up my bags and got my wife to deliver DD and I to the airport.
We're off around the world, my daughter and I. Tokyo, London, Edinburgh, Washington DC, New York, an evening in Hong Kong, and then five days in Rockhampton, for the annual family get-together. I'll see all my siblings, my parents, the younger generations, and it will be pure heaven.
Such a delight to catch up with family. My sister lives interstate, and we don't see as much of each other as we should. With her two youngsters, I'm reminded that we're on an escalator; it doesn't seem all that long ago that we were kids together, but here I am, a distant uncle with weird hobbies and a truckload of Lego.
Perhaps I was a little distracted on the weekend. I'd left several tasks undone in my last week of seven night shifts and I was counting on the free time to book a hotel in Tokyo and travel to and from Edinburgh. This worked out longer and more difficult than it should have, with wonky internet and sites that shut down or kicked me out. Not to mention the difficulty of not knowing Tokyo well at all.
But eventually I sorted it out, hugged my guests goodbye, packed up my bags and got my wife to deliver DD and I to the airport.
We're off around the world, my daughter and I. Tokyo, London, Edinburgh, Washington DC, New York, an evening in Hong Kong, and then five days in Rockhampton, for the annual family get-together. I'll see all my siblings, my parents, the younger generations, and it will be pure heaven.
