Day 1 and 2

Our First 2 days.

Along the way, mummy and daddy tried to find a free camping site about 5kms south of Barcaldine, which they found on a special map. We secretly think that some people must have copied mummy and daddy's special map, because when we got there, after going along a dirt track - it was FULL! And mummy and daddy had to turn around and find another camping spot. Us boys and Chloe were starting to get cranky now, because we were so looking forward to stopping somewhere and setting up our caravan.

We checked out some roadside camp spots, but they had lots of other people staying there, so mummy and daddy decided to stay in a nice caravan spot in Ilfracombe. We keep asking mummy and daddy if we are getting close to Darwin - and they say NO!










We got through our first night - us kids were awake at 6.30am - and we were all BUSTING to go to the toilet. Mummy and Daddy didn't want to get out of bed - i think they were really cold - we could only see their heads poking out of their covers!

We travelled to Longreach, and then onto a place called Winton. Lucky Mummy was really smart and she booked a spot for us in the caravan park. Everyone looked squished together. Mummy and Daddy said that we have to be good, and not toooo noisy in case we annoy the old people in the caravan park - but Daddy took us for a walk around the caravan park before dinner, and we saw that there were lots of other kids our age staying in caravans too!

Mummy and Daddy took us to places in Winton like museums, but we secretly thought they were boring, and we were a bit naughty. ooops. We did go to 2 really FUN places - The Musical Fence where we could bash some old things REALLY loudly with metal and rubber pipes. It was so much fun. We also loved the Truck Museum - we all found our favourite trucks. Here our some more photos of our day.

Lachlan playing the drums!

Lachlan on his favourite car!

Josh at his favourite car.Chloe on hers!

Tomorrow we are off to Mt Isa.

1 Sleep to go!!

Well we only have 1 sleep to go till we start on our trip to Darwin!! We are SO excited and have been running around crazy while Mummy and Daddy try to pack up the van and tidy up the house. Last post was meant to have a picture of the biscuits we made and of the caravan but Daddy clicked publish before Mummy was ready so here are the pictures!


The 2 ends of the van come out and mum and dad sleep at the front and lachlan will sleep at the back.

6 sleeps to go

Today is Monday, and we have only 6 sleeps left at home till we head off on our holiday!

We have been helping mummy do some baking today, we just made 84 biscuits!!! Well there are a few less now as we just HAD to try some! We have smartie biscuits, ones with sultanas in them, jam drops and the last tray Lachlan put a date on the top of each one. We can't wait to have them for Morning Teas on our trip.

We also went to the shop and started buying some things especially for the caravan - we got to pick out our own new toothbrush and some toothpaste. Over the week we have to help Mum pack our clothes and buy the rest of the food and then pack the caravan - think we'll be pretty busy!!

Here are some of our biscuits.

And here is our caravan. Both ends come out and Mum and Dad will sleep at one end and Lachlan gets the big bed at the other end! Josh gets the top bunk and Chloe the bottom.