On Sunday we traveled down south for a couple of days for my Aunt's funeral. My parents in their car with an Uncle and Aunt, me in my husband's new car with my children. The trip there wasn't too bad, I didn't feel tired in the least, we drove to Gundagai for lunch and then onto Holbrook, the drive all up was over 5 hours.

Settled in the motel rooms, females in one room and males in another. Then went for a quick visit to another Auntie. I remembered how boring it used to be when visiting there as a kid, sitting around the house with the adults so seeing as Cass and Tom had been cooped up in the car all day I took them into town for a look around. We had thought about driving to Albury and taking Tom across the river into Wodonga, just so he could say he'd been out of the state but that meant another hour driving. Ended up at the submarine instead, had icecream and drinks, Tom climbed over the submarine while Cass read.

The sun was brilliant, we had driven through pouring rain on the trip and my husband said it was pouring at home.

The funeral was nice, as nice as one could be, the church was filled with family and friends. My Dad's surviving siblings were there, there's just 4 left now. Just a few cousins could make it, it was nice seeing cousins I haven't seen for years I only wish that it was under happier circumstances but that's how it is now.

The trip back on Tuesday wasn't so great, I hadn't been well and woke up during the night with a coughing fit. I drove behind my parents but felt the effects of tiredness, was watching for merging traffic one moment and off the road the next. I managed to keep on the shoulder, bringing the car to a stop with my son yelling. Realised I had a microsleep and was very lucky not to have driven into trees or other cars, it happened so quick. We had already had a rest stop but I had felt a little rushed out of it, my parents had wanted to drive longer but I had said no that I wanted to stop at the next service centre, we were only 7 kms from it when it happened. Very scary.

It was a relief to get home but I really would have liked to stay longer to show my kids around the countryside, maybe next time.