Short trip

I have been a very bad blogger, I have had my nose stuck in a couple more books. This time Kathy Reichs is the flavour. Have had a little nudge though so I thought i might do a little (big)update.

We decidied to go away for a couple days last week as Craige has had a bit of time off work and the kids are on holidays. We headded to Ballarat on Wednesday morning, we went down through Melbourne cause it's the quickest way. We arrived about 4pm and headed out for a walk around the town. We had a good look around till about 6.30 then had some dinner and walked back to our hotel room. It was very nice after being in the car so long. The next day we spent many hours at Soverign Hill. It was a great place, very interesting and something we had been planning on doing for so many years.

Here's a couple of pics of the kids panning for gold. It was fun but they didn't have any luck much to Tahlia's disapointment. She so wanted to find some gold.



After we left Soverign Hill we drove to Bendigo to stay the night and do some sight seeing things the next day. We went in the mines, now I hate this sort of thing but it's funny what you can make yourself do for the kids. As the girls were both a little afraid I had to make it appear that all was well and there was nothing to be afraid of, even though I was scared myself. It was very interesting though I learnt many things about the gold mines I didn't know. Here's the miners now.........

Don't they look stunning in there little hats...... lol.


We then had a run on the talking trams, these beautiful old trams take you around bendigo giving you an auditory run down of the old buldings and other intersting things about the town. We got off in the centere of Bendigo to go to the mall and have lunch, lovely mall could have done some serious retail therapy there, had I had more time. After we finished our tram tour we headded up to the Science fair for the afternoon. Many great things here to enjoy and learn from the kids had a ball.

We drove up to Echuca after that for another overnight stay. What a weekend to find ourselves in Echuca, there was a hot rod rally on. There were so many fantasticly done up cars too see. Ethan kept saying 'awesone' this seems to be his word of the month lol. The next morning we went down to the port and had a run on a really big paddle wheeler. It was run by a wood fired steam engine. How fantastic it was, we sat on the deck on bales of wool just like they wuld have hundreds of years ogo when the port was the biggest inland in Australia.

We had a real aussie herritage holiday. Such a difference to the usuall theme park/beach holidays we have. It was a nice change.

Thanks to everyone who sent there best wishes and thoughts on Ethan's recent dentist trip. He is totally better. Now even the wound has healed and it is so reasuring knowing he won't have another tooth ache from that tooth, and it's not so long untill the second teeth start comming through anyway.

It was a really long post and blogger has been playing up on me, so till next time stay well.