It has begun! We are half-way through our two week holiday and it is exactly what we needed. It began last Saturday with soccer games for the kids. It was so fun to sit and watch Alta play! She ran her little heart out. Olin played well too. He played goal keeper for the first half and got scored on once, and then played the field the second half and scored one goal - so I guess he evened it up for his team.
We spent our Sunday hanging out with our Polish friends. They took us mushrooming to a pine forest about 3 hours from here. It was exactly what I needed to relax. We were joined by 3 other Polish couples that we hadn't met before and their children. We wandered the forests for hours looking for 'pine mushrooms' and filled our buckets. We also found lots of dead kangaroos (road kill), huge termite mounds (forgot to take pictures), and more wombat dens than I could count. After we had picked our fill we made a small campfire and ate yummy polish food while the kids played in the mud! Monday we headed off on our camping road trip to Byron Bay. It took about two days to drive to Byron Bay so we camped on the way up and on the way back. We stayed at Holiday Parks - and man those are nice!!! They have showers, kitchens, laundries, playgrounds, water parks, and big air cushion jumping things! On our last night camping the Holiday Park even showed an outside evening movie that we could watch from our campsite! Byron Bay itself was pretty cool. I told Tom that I think it must be a qualification that you have to be young and beautiful to live in Byron Bay. The scene was like mixing Humboldt with Santa Cruz. So many people were barefoot. The beach was scattered with lazy loungers (some women were topless) and tattooed, long haired men running to the waves with their boards. The waves were the kind of surfer waves you see in movies. The town itself was packed with people. There were street musicians, shops where you could buy tie-die or Indian themed clothing. It was a little town, but definitely popular. While we were there, Tom, the kids, and I took surfing lessons. We didn't go all the way out to the big waves but learned on the white crashed part of the wave. The kids and I both got to standing on our boards by the time the lesson was over but Tom struggled with being able to bend his knees to the angle needed to get up. He had a smile on his face the whole time, though! We all loved it! We are heading to Tasmania tomorrow after a day of relaxing here at home. We'll be there until next Sunday. Looking forward to another adventure! Check out some of the pictures of our first Holiday week below!
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Candy Webber
4/14/2017 23:23:55
Thanks again for letting everyone see your life 'down under' The pictures were grand. Have fun in Tasmania! Its raIning here of course.
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