"So we're really going on holiday, then!" Matt said excitedly.

Rona absorbed this, and then beamed. "I guess we are!"

"Just for a weekend" Matt pointed out, reminding them both lest the excitement should go to their heads. "But you can do plenty in a weekend" he added happily.

"And it'll be the first time we've gone away together" Rona said.

"I know!" Matt agreed. He remembered having told her that the night before, but he refrained from pointing this out.

"Where're we gonna go?" Rona asked.

"Oh."

"Is your car working?"

"Sort of."

"What's 'sort of'?"

"We better not drive interstate."

"Well we couldn't in a weekend anyway."

"Bit of a shame. I've heard the South Coast of New South Wales is gorgeous" Matt said.

"I like the Central Coast" Rona replied wistfully, remembering high-school holidays to Gosford, weekend trips up the train-line with her friends to Newcastle.

"Next time, maybe" Matt said, searching in his mind for T.V. images he'd seen of New South Wales' far South Coast. "We need to plan for this time, though!" he said. "We'll need to book a hotel."

"How can we book a hotel if we don't know where we're going?" Rona pointed out.

"I thought we could go along the Great Ocean Road. Drive to a town out there somewhere, stay the night, come back."

"I've never been along there!" Rona said in wonder. How had she never been along there? In all her time living in Melbourne, how had she never gone along the Great Ocean Road? "Is it nice?"

"It's great" Matt said eagerly. "I went there five or six years ago with my girlfriend back then -"

Rona turned to him.

"Um, is that weird?" Matt said apologetically, suddenly wishing he hadn't been quite so excited about the trip, that he could've reined it in enough to think about his words before he spoke them.

"No!" Rona said quickly. "No. It's not weird. Why would it be weird? If you say the Great Ocean Road's nice, it's nice. Let's go."