Stella’s Hot Cold Holidays

I will only be looking after Bree in the next few weeks. Stella is enjoying an ‘extended’ school holiday. Right now, Stella and her parents are in Indonesia, visiting her mum’s best friend, who is currently based in Indonesia. Her father will return to Melbourne earlier, leaving her to spend the rest of the time there with her mum. After returning to Melbourne, Stella will be taken up to Mt. Buller. Her father can’t wait to see Stella skiing steadily. She first learned to ski last year but according to her dad, that was just ‘baby stuff’. It seems like he is expecting her to improve, but I just hope he won’t forget to allow her to have heaps of fun as well.

From warm and sticky Jakarta to cold and wet Buller, I wonder how Stella’s little body will cope with the different destinations. Personally, I think they should have visited Indonesia at the end of the year and spent these holidays entirely skiing on Mt. Buller, but they didn’t have much of a choice. Stella’s mum wanted to visit Indonesia again and she wanted to do it before her friend moved on to another posting in either China or Japan, later this year. Stella’s parents would like to expose her to as many world cultures as possible and this friend had planned a mini charity project for both Stella and her mum. They didn’t want to miss out on this. I will post about this mini project after they have returned from their holidays. In the meantime, Stella’s sports mad dad was also planning to spend a few days skiing with his girls. July or August is the best time to go. By chance, he was able to take a few days off in July. As a result, Stella is now enjoying the first of two oddly coordinated holidays.