From T

Hello Everyone!

Today we went for a drive.  We went up a volcano.  We had a look around up there and later we found a playground so we stopped for a play.  It had a really big pancake swing.  Me and C were pretending that we were superman flying around.  At the volcano we saw a kangaroo with a baby in it's pouch.  We saw a funny looking bird statue in some ones garden.  We went past the airport and Dads work.  When we came home we watched a movie called Getting Even with Dad.  After that we watched some normal TV.  E started to do some homework and I went up into my bed to play Lego Chima.

So far my favourite place has been Warrnambool.  It was really fun, there was lots of things to do.  There was a jumping pillow, a playground and a swimming pool.  I really liked the huge TV in the games room because it had Foxtel.

A really fun bit on our holiday was when we went to Melbourne. Dad and I went to the MGC to watch the Tigers play the Saints.  At the end of the game the Tigers were on 118 points and the Saints were on 57.  I bought a toy from the Mascot Manor caravan.  It was a Tigers mascot.  When we got home it was really late so we had to go straight to bed.

At Mt Gambier it was really rainy.  We did see lots of things and tried to avoid the rain.  We went to see the Blue Lake, we went of lots of different look outs. At one point we climbed a thousand stairs to a really tall tower but then we realised that there was a car park.  Dad was cranky that we walked up all the stairs when we could have driven up!  We went to two sinkholes.  One of them had two waterfalls and three movies on the wall.  The next day we went to another sinkhole where there were possums.  We took food to feed them.  It was really funny when the possum lifted its tail up because there was poo hanging from its bum.  We called it the dangly possum.

The other day when we came to the Big 4 park in Toowoomba we went to a really cool park where there were heaps of really cool plants cut into shapes. There was a Thomas the Tank engine that had seats in it.  At the playground we saw Mickey and Minnie Mouse.  At one section of the park we saw a mother duck with five baby ducks and on the other side we saw a turtle.  When we went over to another section of the park there was a spider, a rabbit, a dinosaur, a lawnmower and lots of other things.

In the first caravan park in Toowoomba we went to Mc Donald's three times.  Once for dinner, once for an ice cream, and once for my birthday.  After my birthday we decided to not have takeaway and that we should have some real home cooked food.  I really like the Big 4 caravan park because it has a heated pool with a water slide.  It has a playground and a TV room but we can't go in there at the moment because they are building a jumping pillow next to it.

Yesterday in the caravan park we saw two Tawny Frogmouths in a tree next to our caravan.  Today when we went to see if they were still there but they weren't so we are guessing that at night they flew away.

At Portland the playground was really fun. It had a three horse merry go round.  It had a wooden bit, a plastic bit, a swing set and a broken tractor.  There was also a rocking lady bug.  Just outside of the caravan park there was another playground with a see saw, a swing and a wobbly snail.

At Apollo Bay it was fun because at the playground there was a flying fox, a bouncing swing, and some bars.  There was a koala crossing the road and it went right underneath our car in the caravan park. That was a bit unusual.  We looked at the water and all of a sudden there were whales popping up.  The next day we went to the rock pools.  It was really cold.  I slipped over on the rocks.  We found over 40 starfish.  When we got back into the car we were looking out and all of a sudden we saw whales jumping up and down and splashing in the water.  The lady at the information centre said the whales might have gone quiet because it had gotten cold.

At Geelong Mummy and I went to Target and I spent my money on a cool Lego Chima set and it came with two speed oars, a big lion thing, a ramp and a chi throwing thing. The two characters that were in the set were Cragger and Laval.  They are my favourite characters.  Every day when I have some quite time I like making up my own secret weapons for the chima characters and I think all the weapons I have made up look pretty cool.

We stayed at Barooga for a week.  It was fun, there was lots of things to do.  Because we had a spare tyre Dad used a rope to make a swing in the tree.  There was lots of sand to play in.  My cousins came the day after we arrived.  Erin and I made treasure hunts.  Two days later when everyone went to the bike track Mummy and I made a really cool treasure hunt and the treasure was caramello koalas and freddo frogs.  The treasure hunt was a clue treasure hunt.  I had the last clue which told them that they had to go and dig.  It was really fun watching them run up and down looking for the treasure.  One night mummy and daddy had a shower by the fire after everyone had gone to bed.  The day we left it was so cold that we didn't get out of our pj's. C's hands were so cold they went all red and hurt.  He was crying.

At Forbes we got cleaned up after staying at Barooga because we stank really bad.  The next night we went to the pub for dinner.  We had McDonald's for lunch.

The day we left we went to the Big Dish at Parkes.  It was really big and we did the scavenger hunt there.  We kept going to Dubbo where we stayed at a Top Tourist park,  There was a jumping pillow, a huge playground and a TV room.  We didn't go in the swimming pool because we only stayed one night.

We went to the Crystal Kingdom in Coonabarabran.  We looked at lots of fossils and crystals.  Then we went a long way to find a pottery place.  We got to use clay and we made lots of stuff. After that we went an extra long way on a bumpy road to get to our camp spot.  In the morning we went for a really long walk.  We saw lots of aboriginal artworks.  At the bottom of the gorge we saw a sign that said look up, when we looked up we saw one of the statues that we had passed. 

After we left we drove to Moree.  At Moree we had stayed at the caravan park for three nights.  We went to the big swimming centre there.  It was really fun.  In the caravan park there was a heated spa.  Mum, E, C and I played hide and seek.  We used our scooters and bikes to play around the park.  We went to the beer and bull shit corner to have a sausage sizzle.  It was really nice in the caravan park but on the second day we looked at the fence around the park, it was barbed wire.  The middle of town was nice but if you go further out of town all the houses were burnt down, grafitied or vandalised.  There were people still living in graffitied houses.  There were lots of police cars going around.

On our way to Warwick which is my last favourite place we stopped at Glen Innes to do some fossicking.  It was really fun.  I found a sapphire and Mum found a really cool green one.  I also found a red garnet.  At Warwick not one of the family liked the caravan park. 

Today at Toowoomba there was 60 teenagers that arrived in the caravan park.

Last week was my birthday.  I got four presents.  Then I got one more yesterday.  We went to Crows Nest.  We explored there, we stopped for a quick play at the playground then we had lunch at the waterfall place.  We had an explore around there.  To get C to go back to the car I played a game with him.. We had a race to see who could get back to the car first.  C won.  We pretended we were riding our chima motorbikes.