We started our holiday to Brisbane for the wedding after a Musical rehersal at school on Tuesday. And although planning to leave at lunch, a doctors visit and a few present deliveries on the way held us up til 3 when we eventually left for Nambucca Heads. (The boys thought this was a very funny name for a place.)Richard had a few chest x-rays and blood test to finally diagnose him wil Pleurasy and Pneumonia. For which rest was prescribed, leaving me to drive. I am still recovering. The presents were for two (out of 8 kinder boys) who were having birthdays Ben was going to miss. One was Jayden, his best mate and soccer pal. Both boys were counting down until their reunion.
So 4 hours later and some take away dinner to satisfy the natives and we were in our little beach hut. A quick nap, an early morning swim (carefully avoiding the elderly lady running in only a towel, who by the way was hinting at playing soccer with the boys. Luckily they missed the hint an she ran on) and we were back in the car for some more in car DVDs, take away food and highway driving. At this point I should add two things. Firstly the boys were great travellers and apart from the weariness of the driver and illness of the Dad, we could turn around and do it all again tomorrow. Secondly we are not touching take away food at least until Christmas. We had the best intention to shop and cook and even packed our esky, but we ended up only being in our motel room to cook one meal and have all our breakfasts. We made lunches most of the time too and the boys ate stacks of fruit so it wasn't that bad. It just felt bad when on the way home, and only a few hours from home, knowing the kids wouldn't last, we pulled into the next town hoping for a healthy option. Not wanting anything we'd already had once or twice already and not wanting to pay our last $60 at a salad buffet. With very few healthy options we ended up with Subway and the boys were asleep before finishing their last mouthfuls but it kept them quiet and they slept the last little bit of the trip.
The water was so warm at Nambucca that the boys just couldn't stay dry and were soon only wearing their undies. Speaking of undies, I didn't pack any for Ben. And I didn't pack any socks for Joel. What was I thinking. I did pack lots of long pants and jumpers that we never touched though.
So there was no traffic until about 20Km from home. Sunset from the Bruce.
This is where we stayed from the park.
We found this great little man made lagoon for the children to play in and met the Burstows here for a great day with a BBQ and an ice cream. The last pic here is a group shot of all the kidsof which Joel did not want o participate in and the others looked less than impressed because I was holding their ice cream ransom for the photo.
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