Bugs, Babies & Life Stories

Thursday 24th May, 2007







After a nice drive we arrived at Ballarat just after lunch and after we set up Caitie and I headed into town to by some grocery's and some warmer clothes as we were all freezing, (except in the bathrooms because the floors were heated!!!) while Andrew and Pip had a rest. Once we got back Caitlyn found the jumping pillow which as you can see Daddy and Philippa enjoyed too and we had a nice dinner and early bed. Pipi also learnt to stand up on this day as you can see she was very pleased with herself.



Friday 25th May , 2007





Off to Sovereign Hill, we walked up wandered through the gift shop while we waited for it to open as it took us less time than we thought. And once inside we had a great time looking at all the different things. The mine shaft, the gold smelter, the old fashioned lolly shop, the candle maker, the bakery (yummy lamb stew pies), the printers, and the all important panning for gold in the freezing water. It was a long day and by the time we were walking home we were all ready for a early night.

Saturday 26th May, 2007

Fairy Park - Anakie (30km out of Geelong) (http://www.fairypark.com/)

This place was fantastic Caitlyn had the best time it is this huge hill that this old guy has built a castle on and all through the castle are the animatronic puppets telling the fairy tales and there is also Playground Camelot which the Caitlyn just didn't want to leave. The only thing is there is NO eftpos or credit card facilities so have cash on you otherwise it is a rather long and frustrating drive all the way into the heart of Geelong to find an ATM!!!

I am not sure who had the most fun in the playground actually as Andrew was on the slide, see saw, climbing all over the castle, hiding in the dungeon and even told Caitlyn to get off the digger so he could show her how it was done.......

Sunday 27th May, 2007

Off to Wee River we go, this was a very long and winding day but we arrived in one piece and it was time to wash!!!!!

Well as you can see this is the first blog since the last (obviously, der Jo!!!) what I mean is that I said in the last I would try and get this all up to date last week and it is now this week and I'm just getting there....

Andrew was sick all week, Pip was and still is cutting her first 2 bottom teeth and is not the happiest at night times and now Caitlyn is getting high temps and aching joints too. Hence I spent the week sleeping on the lounge, much to Caitlyn's distress. She said to me on Saturday " Why do you keep sleeping in the lounge room mummy?" so I told her it was cause Daddy was sick and I didn't want to get sick too, to which she told me "So when daddy isn't sick anymore then you can sleep in your bed again". I just had visions of her telling everyone at Church on Sunday that mummy has been sleeping on the lounge all week.

Anyway I have a spare time now (well actually I really don't want to clean up the kitchen, wash or fold washing or tidy my room so...) I will endeavour to at least finish our holiday blogs.

We got the car back on the Thursday before we left for Nyngan.

We are so very thankful and totally blessed by our church family as we were given 2 x $1000 cheques to help pay for the car and another $250. Thank you to those who are just so generous and loving to us!!!! GOD bless you.

We have been to and returned from Nyngan and had a great time. WDBC Missions Committee asked the church for donations to give to Nyngan Baptist and we were able to give the church a love offering of $1000, which they were totally overwhelmed by. The team was also able to say a huge thank you to the Montgomery's (who we stay with every year, the ENTIRE TEAM!) by giving them $1000, which they greatly appreciated as they had a cry for help the morning we left to the tune of $1200. God is so good!.
Thanks again to our Church family who dug deep and supported the team and the mission this year. We also hope to give them one of the many organs (musical instrument, not body) that we have at the church, as the organ they use (their only musical instrument) died last week. So Andrew, the girls and I are thinking of heading back out on the 5th Sunday weekend to deliver it to them, as it is our Sunday off (Andrew & Noel alternate) and to have a few days off which we all need after working 7 days straight.

I hope to update this Blog in the next week to conclude our holiday (if I can remember it all now!!!) to tell you all about Nyngan and our very quickly growing girls!