Last weekend

It has been raining a lot, and last weekend was particularly wet. Around mid-day, the rain stopped and the sun came out briefly. I had to return Lara's toys and Husband felt like a cup of coffee so we decided to get some fresh air outside. I was chatting in the car when Husband suddenly shouted "Slow down" before a Hume Highway intersection. At the same time, I saw a car making almost a U-turn, another car's bonnet popped open and a lawn mower flying in the air all in slow motions. It felt like time nearly stopped and every image was sharp and clear in a frame-by-frame-like fashion. I imaged there must be a loud crash sound but I didn't hear anything. All was silent like we were in a silent movie.

What we think happened was the van/truck in front of us changed two lanes quickly to get to the inner-most lane in order to turn right (he might have gotten away with it on a nice day but not a good idea on a wet day), slipped off the road and hit two incoming cars on the other side of the road. A few objects lying but not secured in the back of the van (Husband said there was a goods trolley and I thought it was a lawn mower) flying out and nearly hit our car. Luckily I was some distance away from him, wasn't driving very fast therefore narrowly missed the flying objects. We didn't think anyone was hurt. I'm extremely grateful that nothing happened to us and Lara. We really need to be careful ALL THE TIME when we are on the road.

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On a happier note, on the same night we picked up some Vietnamese take away for dinner and went to get some DVDs at the local video shop. Lara was happily walking along the isles "choosing" DVDs with me following closely behind. She spotted two little girls nearby, one might be 3 or 4 and the other 6 or 7. Lara always likes other kids- she stared at them and followed them around at first. It wasn't long before she walked up to them mumbling something and touched one of the girls in the tummy. The girls were quite interested in Lara too, especially the younger one. She pointed at Lara and said "I think she wants to play with us". I replied "I think she likes you two". After that, the three of them just sat on the carpet amongst the DVDs and "played" (in their own way) together for a little while. Kids have this amazing ability of living in the moment and they make friends so easily. I'm learning a lot from them.