Lost-in-Direction - Road Trip to Canberra

Jenny and I went to her sister-in-laws hens night yesterday. oh my god what a road trip!
the hens night was in Canberra so we drove down for the weekend. we live 2.5 ho0urs drive north of Canberra and had planned to stay at my sister in law's Michelle's place. with the first event being at 12 noon we had left at 8.30 to give us plenty of time to get there and factor getting a bit lost and had time to have a cuppa at Michelle's and get changed before lunch. i had never driven to Canberra so i did not really know how to get to Michelle's place although i had been there a few times now. so Adrian had printed directions of google maps for me.
 i like to think i do have a pretty good scens of direction and can easily find my way again when i do get lost. and when it happens i dont get stressed out and generally work out that im lost early so its not that big a problem
but even with the directions we got lost 2 or 3 times and called Adrian in the mist of a giggling fit to get direction which he couldnt help with. so called Michelle and left a msg on her mobile when she called me back 30 seconds later we had found our way again. and what got us lost was 1 round about that we had taken the wrong exit twice then missed a turn off to the suburb Michelle lives in. simple mistakes, but they were more stressful because we were running late. we had drove through a heavy storm between Bowral and Yass so that had slowed us down and even more so becuase im on my green p's i can still only go 100 km/ph
so in the end it took us 3.5 hours to get to Canberra and arrived at lunch half an hour late.
lunch was very nice we had go to Pialligo Estate Winery ( i didnt taste any wine cos i was driving was dying to taste the rose and resling )
after lunch we went to changed and headed off to after tea held at a house 5 min drive from Michelle's. nice after noon tea and some cool hens night games i have added to  the inventory
then we left early to change again and get a cab form michelle's to dinner at the cbd.
however when we came out on the main rd again to lead us back from Michelle's we went the wrong way and when that rd ended realised i had veared of the rd i though oh it musted of been becuase it was dark and just missed. so we did a uturn and headed back but trouble was when we got back to the street we had turned on to originally we thought we had come to far and u turned again and again ended up at the end of the main rd. that was when we realised we had turned the wrong way originally and when we took the 2nd uturn we had made a mistake so it took us over an hour to get back to Michell's place when it was a 5 min drive. so again we arrived at dinner 30 mins late.
so this sound like we have no directional skills and are complete tragics but it was generally unusual to get that lost that many times for just silly mistakes by me anyway. it is people! everyone just seem to remember the times i get lost or get them lost not the times i drove my self places for  the first time with out directions without getting lost or anything and over all we did well. Canberra dose have confusing exist and roundabouts that are hard to use if you arent used to them.
overall we had a fantastic time and met some great girls and had a good road trip
today on the way home we didnt get lost once and had a good run back

wonders in Erskineville, don't mess with 5 year olds!

my step brothers and step sister live in marrickville, which is about a 40 minute drive from us in campbelltown. and sits about 20 minutes from the cbd of sydney (im going on the drive it takes including traffic.)
anyways occasionally i drive them home on sundays and tonight i drove them home and dropped my step dad off at erskineville on the way home (erskinville is 5 mins from marrickville) i took Jack with me for the drive.
i had never drove and being driven to erskineville before, ever! and by the time we go there is was after 6.30 so already dark. i dropped him off 2 streets from the highway and it was simple to get back out. but stupid me on the way back out turned right instead of left, i kinda knew instantly that i made a wrong turn but proceeded the wrong way as i was 100% sure. when i got to botany rd i knew i was way off. i pulled into the maccas on the corner to get jack a happy meal and call adrian so he could direct me back to newtown. when i called him he was supper pissed off as he thought i would be almost home by this point and had dinner 5 minutes from the table so instead of helping me he started yelling, which caused me to hang up and continue back form the way i came and try to find the street i need to get back on. in the end i drove around for 20 minutes trying to find this street. and i did stop and looked through my car for the street directory which adrian had taken out yesterday (why i dont know!!) then i called adrian needing desperate help i was stuck in some abandon streets in erskineville industrial area, 7pm on a sunday. adrian didnt answer the phone, now im supper pissed off myself thinking his not answering cos he is being a prick, and scared i might be wondering around all night. anyway i eventually find my way and kicked my self of the stupid mistake i did. and when we get back on the Pacific highway Jack immediately says "now we know where we are, we are on our way home from erskineville!"
then jack and i bitch about how adrian took the street directory out of the car and how he didnt answer the phone. Jack was going on "he is sooo naughty adrian!, im very angry at him! im going to punch him when i see him" the phone rings and jack answers it saying to adrian "we are very angry at you adrian! taking the maps out of the car, we got lost!, we were scared, it was dark, and you didnt help us!" adrian hung up on jack "now im super angry at him!" he says so we call adrian back "im super angry at you now adrian! why did u hang up!" adrian had enough of jack yelling at him so i tell him im in leumeah and will be about 15 minutes. jack is still angry saying he wants to punch adrian, i say "we're not going to punch him, he needs to say sorry to us though" then jack says "no we should take the maps out next time he is driving somewhere, so when he gets lost, he'll call and we can laugh and say sucked in and he'll drive around lost while you cook dinner, and he'' be starving, and he wont even be able to go to maccas cos he'll be lost!" then he says "next time he is naughty to you lisa you call me and ill talk to him, he has to be nice to my sister!"
i thought it was soo cute, adrian is gonna have to make it up to him, but perhaps jack will forget by the next time he sees adrian he idolizes adrian so....
oh it turned out adrian didnt ignore my call he was in the shower and he was angry cos dinner was ruined!