We’ve had a
blast the last few weeks. Yes we nearly froze our bottoms off, but it’s been
fun. It began with Easter with my family – yay! How awesome to hang out with family. We partied on daddy’s big birthday, Aunty Kaz’s birthday and also
remembered Aunty Jen’s, Uncle Daniel’s and Uncle Dean’s as well. Celebrating
Easter with family (think egg hunts, spoon races and church together) was
brilliant.
After Easter
we headed inland to Wagga and began a treck along the Murray River. Wow what a
magic part of our country! After some wild free-camping expeditions, it was on
to Phillip Island for some crazy racing, penguin visiting and chocolate making.
Ok yes, it was cold, like really cold.... as well as wet and windy, ugh! But I was
blown away (in both senses) at how beautiful and rugged this island is. If this
is what Tasmania is like, we've got to go!
Next stop
the big city…. Melbourne itself. These little country kids were wowed as we
checked out all the sights and sounds of this incredible metropolis. Top of the
list was our visit to Planetshakers City Church (OH MY GOSH!! Jasmine &
Jacob & other musos remind me to tell you more one day). We now begin the
exciting journey to the start of the Great Ocean Road – yihaa!
Easter
With The Fam
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| Yay we are all winners (someone give Rachy a hug!) |
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| Yay for Cale & Ruby! |
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| Cave explorers setting off into the unknown. |
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| All the cuties together. |
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| Aunty Jen you're beautiful! (Aunty Jen: Who's idea was this egg & spoon race anyway/?!) |
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| Easter art by a cute little bunny. |
Birthday
Fun
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| Happy Birthday Aunty Kaz! |
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| Woah the big 4 0 (celebrated with donuts of course). |
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| A cheeky little Rach wishes Uncle Conrad happy birthday. |
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Woo hoo Caravan stuff!
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| The view from Daddy's birthday present (Rugby tickets). |
Country
Camp Spots
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| Getting back to nature, free-camping in the bush. |
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| Posing with the Dog on the Tuckerbox at Gundagai. |
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| Wagga Beach? What the? |
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Woah a beach! The waves are a little lacking sadly.
(This one at Cobram is the largest inland beach in Oz) |
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| Lily just hanging out with Daddy at another free-camp spot. |
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| The girls loved this photographic exhibition at Wagga. |
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| Water views with our free-camp spot at Yarrawonga. |
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| A chocolate shop that caught our eye on the way past in Shepparton. |
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| Parked near the monster windmill outside the Shepparton Motor Museum. |
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Check out this cool spot by the side of the road we found.
Woah, we really are turning into carnis. |
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| Impromptu playdough art while we were free ranging. |
Exploring
The Murray
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| Two sweet little willows. |
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| Iconic Murray River - paddleboats and driftwood! |
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| Here little friendly wild black swan! |
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| Hey mum look I could swim from NSW to VIC! |
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| Sharing an unbelievable view with my two little poppets. |
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Fabulous
Phillip Island
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| First stop on Phillip Island? The Chocolate Factory of course! |
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| Woah, are you telling me our ticket is actually made of chocolate? |
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| OH MY GOODNESS.... house sized chocolate bars!!! |
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| Chocolate bar.... get it? |
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A whole village made of chocolate!
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| A wall of chocolate!!!???!!! |
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Hippy campers at the local surf store.
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| I know these things are made for tourists to pose on, but we couldn't resist. |
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| Next stop, Phillip Island Race Circuit.....vroom. |
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| First activity was a family race on the huge indoor slot car track. |
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| Then on to go-karts. Daddy gets ready to race. |
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| Daddy & Ellysia go for a tandem race. |
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| Yihaa! |
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| What'd ya think Lil? |
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| That was awesome! |
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| and the winner is... |
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| Next activity... the little penguin parade. |
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| That pink species of penguin on the right is a rare and special type. |
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| Thousands of little penguins came right past us on their way up the beach. |
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| They were absolutely adorable. |
Off to the Big Smoke (Melbourne)
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