Trip to Penrith

Franz was speaking at a work conference about Safety in Electrical Engineering in Penrith on November 16th. The company hired a car for him so Alois and I tagged along. The drive was supposed to be about 4 hours but ended up being over 6 hours for us! We had to stop a couple of times to feed and change and settle Alois. He's at the age where sitting in a car seat isn't much fun at all!! He'd rather be crawling! He did well though!

We arrived there after his dinner time, so he was starving and tired, coz he woke up and couldn't go back to sleep about an hour from Penrith. We fed him, bathed him, sang to him and put him in the cot, and the screaming started! Alois was not happy, he wanted HIS cot, the one daddy made!! Franz went to dinner, and left me with screaming Alois. To keep him quite I tried to feed him again, but that didn't work. 2 hours later, his dad was home, calmed him down, but as soon as he put him in the cot the screaming started again. So...something I've never done before...Alois slept right next to me!! He cried throughout the night, but each time I just fed him while lying there. The next morning he had a 3 and a half hour nap in the cot!!! He was exhausted!!

The following two nights weren't as bad, but he was waking expecting a feed, like the first night. Something Franz had to deal with when we got back home. It took about 3 days back here for him to settle back down and sleep through the night again.

We didn't do much in Penrith, Franz was in the conference all day and I was too scared to drive around!! Living in a town with no traffic lights does that to a woman!! But it was nice to just get out of West Wyalong and have some time together, considering Franz had been working non stop a week and a half prior to our trip!