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Philippa does boo

We were playing with the Mac and entertaining Pip while waiting for Caitie to finish Gymnastics. As you can see she thought he was very funny!!!

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SEAWORLD




It was a slightly overcast day and as we were waiting for the Dolphin Show it did shower for about 5 minutes, other than that it was a nice temperature.   

We started with the Sesame Street Beach Show, which was really good, the girls loved it even if Caitlyn did tell me that they were not real and that they were costumes with people inside!!!!


Grover was so funny, he played up the whole time and then he was the last to leave the stage and kept doing the bum dance to a rather large angry looking bikie one row down from us. 
Next was the Dolphin Show. It was unreal, I don't think you can see this show too many times.


Then it was time to play on the rides and in the water play area while Andrew and I had lunch.









Then we headed underground/sea and I got to play with the features of the new camera.  It has the 'Behind Glass' setting to allow for these fantastic shots.






This is playing with the macro setting underwater - Starfish

The highlight of the day was meeting and having a photo with Elmo and Grover!






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Biggera Waters (work in process)

We did lots of fun things, Putt Putt Golf, Swimming, Jumping Pillow, Bike Rides, Visits to parks and the shops, Andrew's Dad & Corrine came for lunch once and Dave, Dee and Teghan come for lunch and a swim twice.  The highlight was are visit to Seaworld, we visit one theme park a year and this year it was great. Seseme Street Beach was sensational.  The girls had the biggest and best day it was great.













  

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Sunny QLD

We arrived at Treasure Island about 11am as we gained an hour by crossing the border.  We got on our site, which for the bit extra money was sensational so much room and started setting up.  The girls were really good in helping and by 1pm we had roof, walls, verandah and  beds done.  It was time for some lunch.  We spent the rest of the afternoon fiddling to get everything right (for anyone who caravans would know this is process that takes about 3 days) 


We had dinner and as it was still hot and muggy we decided to go for a swim.  This is where the fun began!!! While Andrew was on the phone I got the girls ready and when Andrew got off he got ready too and we headed out.  I took my keys out of the door making sure it was not locked, threw them on the floor and closed the door BIG mistake as the door locked itself and both keys were inside the van..... We tried everything to get back in and nothing worked, so we had to rip the flyscreen on the small window that was opened into the van and then feed Caitlyn trough the window and onto the lounge for her to pick the keys up off the floor and hand them to us, it was lucky that I just dropped the keys rather than hanging them up as there would have been no way she could have reached them.  Anyway while we are doing this Philippa announces that she has done Poo's!!!!! AHHHHHHHHH

Once the van was sorted, Caitie was back out and Pip was cleaned up we headed to the pool and had a great time.



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On the road - Tenterfield

We left Tamworth about 8am and headed to Tenterfield where we spent the night.  Interesting town, the park we were booked into had no one at the office and no one answered the page so we left and found another equally doggy park.  After setting up it was time to sit back and watch Phillip Island 2008 MotoGP, God was good as the only channels we could get were ABC, SBS and TEN and the race was on TEN.


After the race we went down to the park and had a couple of hours of fun before it was time for dinner showers and bed. 

Next stop QLD!!!! 






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A True Bush Wedding

Well we headed off to Tamworth on Friday 3rd with a rather uneventful trip arriving about 2pm.  We were staying in a park that was right on the river just on the outskirts of the main shopping area.  Andrew was very proud of himself and rightly so as we had a site that was in the middle of the row, (so with a van and car on either side) and a tree at the front of our site and Andrew hooked the van around and got it perfectly on the site, completely straight in 1 attempt!!!! for anyone that has tried to reverse a trailer would appreciate the significance of this feat.  It has only taken 10 years for us to get to this point, but it just shows it can be done. you should have seen us , or more importantly heard us when we first started towing the van it would take 10 attempts just to hook up let alone get the thing straight and level on a site!  We spent a night afternoon just hanging around town and then dinner at the Tudor and off to bed.


Saturday was a beautiful day, we spent the morning riding bikes and relaxing until it was time to get ready and head out to the property 30 minutes out of town.  We you arrived you had to follow the white flags....... lucky we had the 4wd it was like mountain climbing as you weaved you way form the road up to the top of the property that opened out at this plateau with
 a gorgeous bush church.     


Everything went beautifully, Kristy looked simply elegant and Nick was very excited.  The clouds were starting to form as we hung around chatting and as we were 2 minutes out of Tamworth the heavens opened and it did not stop till morning.  They were just taking there final photos when it stated which was lucky.


The reception was my part which I was extremely nervous about.   I pulled it off in the end  and I have not had any complaints so thats good, but I will never do it again public speaking is so not me. 

It was a great day and we all slept really well that night.