I have managed to cull the 1178 photos to 224….. but it’s hard to get it less than that. So guess what. You get to see them all!!
Our trip began on Friday 22nd October – 6am. We woke the boys, changed their nappies and put them straight in the car that we had packed the night before. We were driving our the driveway at 6:15am. We had a LOT of stuff to take with us, including the tent, esky (ice box), camp chairs, beds (porta-cots for the boys) plus all our linen, clothes and kitchen stuff. It was an effort to fit it all in the car, but we managed…. just!
Back of the car.
The day before we left I was busy packing, and came into the kitchen to find this sight. This is Ethan, cleaning up the coffee granules that he spilt all over the floor. I’m not sure what he was doing with them, or how he spilt them, but I was amused to find him cleaning them up!! Unfortunately for me, I did not get to take much coffee on my holiday. Thankfully it’s easy to buy more!
And so the trip begins….
The first day we drove from 6:15am till just after 7pm. In that time we made a fair few stops, including one for 2 hours to visit a friend for lunch in Tamworth. We did do about 8-9 hours of actual driving and made it to Warwick, just over the QLD border. Whereis.com tells me we drove 755.3km (470miles) that day. The boys did great and watched DVD’s in the car most of the day.
The next day we drove to Maroochydore, and got there a little after lunchtime. We set up our tent and the camping began
For those who don’t know, we have never camped before (as a family). Tracie and Sal did some camping as kids, like you do, but have not camped together, and have not camped as adults. Of course, the boys had never been camping before either. I am thrilled to report we all LOVED camping, and can’t wait to do it again soon. We had a wonferful relaxing time and spent a lot of time playing with our boys, visiting local attractions and just spending time together as a family. It was a perfect holiday
Our tent, with Ethan and Tracie enjoying the peaceful morning.
The view from our tent. We had the whole camping field to ourselves. It was wonderful and quiet!
Ben – chocolate face!
Ethan – chocolate face
Mumma (Tracie)
Ethan
Ben and Ethan – early morning bike ride, before getting dressed!
We did make a few day trips (more about that later) but the following pictures, are of life in the caravan park.
Goofing around, playing with a ball, running, chasing and having fun…..
At the playground within the caravan park….
On the jumping pillow. A bit like a cross between a trampoline and a jumping castle. GREAT FUN!
Another day - Back to the park
Feeding the ducks (and eels) in the caravan park pond/lake.
Walking back to the tent.
Our car and tent, in our quiet little corner of the field. Bliss!
Ethan getting some water. We bought a big water from the shops, and it soon became an addiction to the boys. They insisted upon getting a drink of water – all by them self of course – and drinking it….. and repeating. Sometimes they would spill it, or tip it out on purpose, then have to go back and get another drink!! Terrors…… but they had so much fun with the water.
On our trip, “Sam” came to visit... Remember Sam?? He’s the turkey that comes into our back yard at home. Well, we saw “Sam” a lot during our camping trip. Almost everywhere we went, we saw “Sam”. One day we left our bread rolls out when we went out for the day. We came home to discover that “Sam” likes bread rolls!!! HAHAHA – The boys though it was funny
Ben driving a matchbox car on train track
Ethan trying to get into the car. Playing in the car is a great game for him - not so great for mummy when I turn on the car the windscreen wipes go like mad, as do the lights and blinkers (indicators). I have also found coins “posted” into my AC vents, and CD’s taken out of the CD player…… little boys are no longer allowed to play in mummy’s car!
From where we set up our tent, we have to walk across a small bridge to get to the bathrooms. From the first day, the boys called it the troll bridge. (In fact, most foot bridges are troll bridges if you ask B&E). Anyway, one day, Mummy (Sal) started a game and pretended to be the troll. “Who’s that walking on my bridge”. The boys would scream and run off the bridge, and mummy would chase. It was a great game that they played over and over and over and over, and till mummy and mumma were so very sick of the troll bridge game!
Then they worked out they could play it together. Ethan’s the troll, Ben runs the bridge.
Ben the troll.
”Don’t cross my bridge Ethan”
Ethan runs away
Ben
Mumma (Tracie) cooking dinner.
Dinner. – Flat bread on one side, and salmon on the other. (plus veggies boiling out of sight) Yummmm
Camp life was so much fun.
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