We’ve been away on a road-trip for a couple of weeks, so Dad is only just catching up with the blog now. Lots of photos.
In addition to the last week of school, where Puff had a haircut (with obligatory free lollipop).
Dad and Puff went out for breakfast and to play draughts, having left the chess pieces in the car.
Dad and Huff went to watch the Dora movie together.
By then it was time for a day at home, a lot of packing, and then to head off on our road trip.
Dad had some work places to visit, and we had some family downtime as well. It was by all accounts a great holiday.
We took some photos in the car pulling faces:
We went to the Dolphin Marine Conservation park (formerly known as the pet porpoise pool). Huff was calling it a “water zoo”.
We had a lot of meals together, including a lot of milkshakes and hot chocolates on break.
Puff, who noticed the birds at Dubbo zoo (or “land zoo”) almost as much as the animals, was excited to see this bird show:
The kids played monopoly a bit, and read every chance they could (and we listened to the audiobook version of the first three Harry Potter books at some point of over 2000kms of driving, from Sydney to South West Rocks, Nambucca Heads, Emerald Beach, Coffs Harbour, Grafton, Yamba, Bellingen, Armidale, Manilla, Narrabri, Dubbo, Blackheath, Katoomba and home).
We had a great time at Dubbo Zoo, where we took more photos of the animals than of the kids!
And at the Coffs Harbour butterfly sanctuary with its dinosaur show.
The kids loved going to the beach and being in and near the water, even if sometimes it was on a pirate ship.
We discovered rock finding and hiding:
We enjoyed being away.
And on the way home we stopped so Huff and Puff could tell Grandma (and Doc) all about it.
It was encouraging to see the kids telling stories of their adventures once they were back at school, even as it’s sad to see them back into the regular grind.