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Well, our trip is coming to an end but we’ve still got some more things planned. Tomorrow Ellie, Hope and myself are going on a Dolphin Watch Cruise in Nelson Bay for a couple of hours. We’re all really looking forward to it as there is a pod of about 80 dolphins in [...]
48C today and the girls have been in the paddling pool since lunchtime. Hope and I finally made the gingerbread sleigh that we forgot to do before Christmas and J managed to get bitten on the foot by a green ant. Nothing serious but it does sting (although if you ask J he’ll [...]
We had so much fun, we all went in Peter’s 4WD and spent some time driving over the sand dunes - I’ve never heard Isabelle scream quite so loudly as she did when we drove what looked to be off the edge of the world! The sand dropped out from under us and Isabelle [...]
On Sunday we took J to visit Maitland Gaol for part of his Christmas present. The gaol was a fully operational prison up until the January 30th 1998 and at it’s busiest hosted in excessive of 600 prisoners.
Our guide for the day was an ex prisoner from the prison who was incarcerated there from [...]
We’ve had a fantastic time so far today - the children got up about 7am and we sent the girls in to wake Adam up (he’s camping in the garden in a tent huge enough for a family of 20) and then we set about opening the presents under the tree. The children were all [...]
It’s about 5.30pm and we’re pretty much ready for Christmas. WE’ve got all the food we could possibly need, J is fishing again with Peter and the girls are working on their scrapbooks with Jenny. Hope has finished making the ‘grog log’ and I’ve been working on my Uni stuff.
We’ve had some pretty impressive storm [...]
This morning we braved the Thursday morning crush at the supermarket to stock up on necessary items (very odd to be walking round a supermarket looking at salad and BBQ meats while listening to the PA system play Winter Wonderland!!) and took some photos of the local area on the way back. We braved temps [...]
We all got up very early yesterday (left the house at about 6.45am) and drove down to Sydney (we’re about 120 miles north of Sydney) so we could go to Taronga Zoo - this trip was Isabelle’s main Christmas present so we wanted to make a full day of it. We got there about 9.30 [...]
We’ve not been doing an awful lot, some pottering around the local area and also a few bits of everyday general shopping. We’re now totally ready for that event on December 25th and have enough food to feed a small army (although we’ll also have to shop again tomorrow!!) Hope’s brother eats loads, as most [...]
Yesterday we went shopping, spent far too much money and got the majority of the Christmas presents. The children went swimming with Hope and Jenny while I sat in the cafe and did some work.
Today the children stayed at home and played in the paddling pool while Hope, Jenny and I finished the present shopping [...]
