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Speaker 2: Welcome back to another episode of Am I A Bad Mom? Podcast?
Speaker 2: School Holidays?
Speaker 1: I know it is school holidays.
Speaker 2: Do your girls get two weeks up?
Speaker 1: Two solid two weeks.
Speaker 2: And the first week is going to be camping?
Speaker 1: With that?
Speaker 3: Yes, Honestly, the ordeal of getting ready to go camping
Speaker 3: is another whole world in itself.
Speaker 2: See, this is the thing. So it's great that he's
Speaker 2: taking them camping. They're going to have a great time
Speaker 2: dad daughter bonding time. You can have some time for yourself.
Speaker 2: But that lead up to camping in the organization and
Speaker 2: everything that they need. Yeah, the packing, I'm assuming that
Speaker 2: will be down to you. And then afterwards when they
Speaker 2: get home, that's a big job as well. I know,
Speaker 2: wash everything, it will be muddy.
Speaker 1: I think this is normal, isn't it? Like I get
Speaker 1: a bit anxious with the idea that they're going to
Speaker 1: be going off. What if they're not warm enough? What?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, what can I control? I'm not there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's different because it's not like they're going
Speaker 2: with friends.
Speaker 1: They're going with dad. Yeah, I know. Woman Sometimes Yeah, they.
Speaker 2: Will tell they're old enough. I say, Dad, I'm freezing.
Speaker 2: Give me your jumper.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll do that. Yeah, I hope. So because dad
Speaker 1: runs hot, you know what's going to happen.
Speaker 2: So, yes, they will get cold. And then next thing,
Speaker 2: you know, so he's got a swag for himself, hasn't
Speaker 2: it a double Yeah? And then the girls have got
Speaker 2: a swag.
Speaker 1: Yes, there's three swags.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they're going to be in with him. He's
Speaker 2: going to be in the double swag, three of them together.
Speaker 2: They'll be nice and warm. He'll be too hot.
Speaker 3: So I have like this little I guess it's a confession.
Speaker 3: Elsie has hustled a tent because she's desperate to go
Speaker 3: camping in a tent. Right, you have to have a
Speaker 3: tent because she hustled our neighbor. It's like a twelve
Speaker 3: man tent. So now Elsie's got this tent at home
Speaker 3: and her idea. So I'm not putting any dampner on this.
Speaker 3: So I said, yes, babe, if that's what you want to.
Speaker 1: Do, you do it.
Speaker 2: Whatever you want, You do whatever you.
Speaker 1: Want, build that tent.
Speaker 3: So she's like, Mum, I'm going to make the tent
Speaker 3: and then I'm putting my swag inside the tent. And
Speaker 3: she said, I did not like sleeping in a swag only.
Speaker 3: I need something around me. I need to feel safe.
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, that's great, and then Sam
Speaker 3: chimes in, no, you don't do that.
Speaker 1: I said, she can do whatever she wants. She's camping.
Speaker 2: She's going to have this great, big twelve man tent with.
Speaker 1: Her swag on the intie.
Speaker 2: I have put up a tent with kids before, right,
Speaker 2: and it is not an easy job.
Speaker 3: I think that's why Sam would be saying we're not
Speaker 3: doing a tent, because.
Speaker 1: He would be way too.
Speaker 2: It might work, but is going to rain next week?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I haven't looked from you know what.
Speaker 2: I even tried on my own with my cats.
Speaker 3: You know what I would right to do? Make him
Speaker 3: take the dogs.
Speaker 2: Two kids, two dogs, see you later, just me and
Speaker 2: my cat.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, look, it's dog friendly. You should
Speaker 1: take the dogs.
Speaker 4: With you too. He's like, I'm not taking the fucking dogs.
Speaker 2: Am I a bad mum for going to extreme lengths Now?
Speaker 1: I feel like at the moment Katie is like this
Speaker 1: on the daily.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you'll get there. You're not at this stage yet.
Speaker 2: But my girls are driving witch. I love it. Whenever
Speaker 2: I speak to anybody with sixteen year olds, I'll go,
Speaker 2: how are you going, how's everything going? Yeah? Good? Apart
Speaker 2: from the driving. It is literally I even messaged a
Speaker 2: friend in the UK last night, how's everything else going?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Girls are good avers driving And then one of those
Speaker 2: like scared emojis.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you do it.
Speaker 3: Actually, I thought of this the other day because there
Speaker 3: was this poor child and I say child because we
Speaker 3: drove past said child driving honestly looked like they looked
Speaker 3: like they were twelve, and they were driving this learner car.
Speaker 3: The look on the instructor's face alone gave off that
Speaker 3: this particular child had probably never driven a vehicle in
Speaker 3: their life.
Speaker 2: And that's his job. He does that every day with me.
Speaker 3: Could you imagine how high alert you would be for
Speaker 3: your entire life if you were getting into cars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be the worst job for your nervous system,
Speaker 2: dual control, You've still got to be on the ball.
Speaker 3: I can't imagine it. I am the worst passenger ever.
Speaker 1: So what's going on with the girls?
Speaker 2: And this is the thing, right, they're pretty good drivers.
Speaker 2: Holly has done more hours than Amelia, so she's I'm
Speaker 2: almost relaxed with her driving now, apart from this morning
Speaker 2: when she needed to turn left and then hop in
Speaker 2: the right lane because we were going into a car park,
Speaker 2: which was literally just as we turn, she's gone around
Speaker 2: the corner so fast she hasn't. I was like, you've
Speaker 2: got to get over to that lane. Look, the turning
Speaker 2: is here. We're at the turning and it's like that
Speaker 2: over two lanes. Quickly check make sure no one's coming
Speaker 2: entering the car park on two wheels or the situation.
Speaker 2: I was like, Hey, anyway, they are doing pretty well,
Speaker 2: but we are not on track for the hours that
Speaker 2: have to be done by November. So that's one hundred
Speaker 2: hours each. I think, Holly, is it about thirty five maybe?
Speaker 2: And Amelia is less, She's at like twenty something. And
Speaker 2: so I came up with a solution, and in the moment,
Speaker 2: Rachel felt like a really good solution. And now I'm
Speaker 2: kind of backtracking a little bit. Everyone's excited for it
Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh, I don't know. Yeah, the idea
Speaker 2: is to drive to Sydney.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: I was literally in my head just about to say
Speaker 3: the same thing, why don't you drive to Sydney?
Speaker 1: But then I was thinking, like, Sydney is technically.
Speaker 3: A nine hour drive, right, yeah, but then you wouldn't
Speaker 3: be able to allow her to drive the full nine hours,
Speaker 3: So then technically you'd never get that she'll be too tired.
Speaker 2: So maybe we switch it up and they do half
Speaker 2: and half. Yeah, like a couple of hours each at
Speaker 2: a time.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I would be going, like, you do two hours, now,
Speaker 3: you do two hours. There, you do two hours.
Speaker 1: So literally they get half half and then on the way.
Speaker 1: Same thing.
Speaker 2: In my mind, I wanted to go down to Sydney anyway,
Speaker 2: and I was having a look at flights and at
Speaker 2: school holidays, and nothing seemed very cheap. And it didn't
Speaker 2: even cross my mind until we were talking about driving.
Speaker 2: Hang any year hours up, we'll go up to now,
Speaker 2: so we'll drive down to the Gold Coast. And then
Speaker 2: I went, oh my god, it was like a lightbulb moment.
Speaker 2: It's like, we wanted to go to Sydney. Flight's pretty expensive.
Speaker 2: It's Sydney, so it's doable. But it's also like you
Speaker 2: can see that the flights are like three times mo
Speaker 2: yeah they should be. Are you drive your car to
Speaker 2: be resentful on this journey? I'm going to resent the
Speaker 2: airline for this. And so then I was like, well,
Speaker 2: if we took my car, my car is petrol probably
Speaker 2: not much cheaper? Well it would. I would be still
Speaker 2: got a lot of petrol, a lot of fuel to
Speaker 2: go through Jay's gone Electrica would just drive that down. Yep,
Speaker 2: it's all most free.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear the stories. I can't wait.
Speaker 2: And I've done that. I've driven down to Sydney before.
Speaker 2: We did it for Taylor Swift. Remember, Yeah, but flights
Speaker 2: were going to.
Speaker 1: Be petrol with petrol or electric that.
Speaker 2: Was electric too. The flights were going to be about
Speaker 2: four grand to get to Sydney. Sydney's an hour away.
Speaker 2: It was going to be the same price that we
Speaker 2: paid to go to Hawaii last year to Sydney. And
Speaker 2: I was absolutely I am not spending that on flights.
Speaker 2: So we drove down. That horrible that they can even
Speaker 2: do that, Yeah, do you reckon?
Speaker 3: Ye?
Speaker 2: Should be a law, it should be.
Speaker 1: There should be a law in that, because that is wild.
Speaker 3: You can't just do that because there's one person playing
Speaker 3: a Yeah, it's because it's so horrible.
Speaker 2: In COVID, Oh, we all bailed out the airlines look
Speaker 2: at them laughing now charging four times the price for flights.
Speaker 1: And four thousand dollars to fly an hour.
Speaker 3: No, so okay, that's good plan in motion driving to Sydney.
Speaker 1: How long you in.
Speaker 3: Sydney for a few days enough to recover the anxiety
Speaker 3: to then return home with the girls driving?
Speaker 1: So let's say nine hours each?
Speaker 2: Yeah, takes you thirty forty Yeah?
Speaker 1: Get all these hours? How do you get them?
Speaker 2: We have to do a few trips out of Sydney.
Speaker 1: You just might as well drive around Australia still driving.
Speaker 1: Where are they still driving? Reporting?
Speaker 2: That's a lot there's a lot of hours. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: a lot of hours for a poor nervous that's what
Speaker 2: I'm meaning, mother, Mother.
Speaker 1: That is a long, mighty mighty long trip to Sydney.
Speaker 2: It felt like the obvious solution. I'm a little nervous
Speaker 2: about it now, I'm really because you know that there's
Speaker 2: the same rules. So as a passenger in the passenger
Speaker 2: seat for me, I've got the same rules as being
Speaker 2: the driver. So I can't pick up my phone.
Speaker 1: You just got to sit there and stare out the window.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as if I'm driving, I've got a second pair
Speaker 2: of eyes. It's as if I'm driving, honestly rage. I
Speaker 2: remember calling out the insurance company when they started driving, saying,
Speaker 2: do I have to inform you that my child is
Speaker 2: now driving?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: No, it's like we're class it as you driving. If
Speaker 2: she has an accident, it's you. I was like, it's
Speaker 2: a lot pressure.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, so phone.
Speaker 2: Down, phone down, eyes up, eyes.
Speaker 1: Up, con alert on herd control.
Speaker 3: Shit though from the other side of the car, on
Speaker 3: more alert than if I was driving.
Speaker 1: This is going to be the longest trip to Sydney
Speaker 1: you've ever taken.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 1: Nine hours with no fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do we say? Full ground for flights