Back on the black

This weekend we left town for a 4-wheel drive course about three hours south of Sydney. It's a funny that the car I usually only use to take the kids to school (a very boring 10 minute drive) suddenly turned into this very cool off road vehicle. We got stuck on a big rock going up a hill, we drove through a river and the car got very, very dirty. The kids loved it happily bouncing up and down on the back seat.

It was a beginner course so the exercises were not too difficult. Everyone had walkie talkies in the car. Our course leader had a good sense for drama and he managed to create some stress by shouting through the walkie talkie things like: 'you are in a mess!!' (when we got stuck on a rock), "keep going otherwise we get floating here!!" ( when it started to rain very heavily) and "Keep talking to me!!!" (to make sure we had not fallen from a cliff or worse).

The language of off road drivers is interesting. I especially like this one: "We are back on the black". This is what the course leader said when we got back on the main road and the course was finished. I'm sure our very cool car (nickname=Battlestar Gallactica) will stay on the black for the next few weeks.