Townsville

Let me tell you about our trip to Townsville!

What a FABULOUS weekend.... I wish I took more photos though.

We left here on Friday morning at 6am. Drove to Rockhampton for lunch (606 kms) Then drove to Mackay for the night (337 kms) I think we arrived in Mackay at 5:30 - 6pm - just in time for dinner. Aunty Jan was there for the night too, so we spent a little while with her, and organised to travel with her to Townsville.

I called Scott to let him know that I was going to set my alarm for 5am, and leave at 6 - but we decided that there wasn't any rush, and just leave when we were ready, so i turned the alarm off, and we were all asleep by 8:30. At 10:30 I felt a very warm sensation on my arm, and realised that Danielle was weeing on me! I flew out of bed (can't believe I didn't wake Molly & Hallie) I think i was yelling, infact I'm certain that I was yelling. I put Dani into the other bed.

We woke up at 7 on Saturday morning, had our breakfast, our showers, packed the car & were gone by 8. Aunty Jan & Peter left at 7, so we didn't get to travel with them.

We drove into Townsville at 12:30 (389 ks) - We went straight to our friends from Cobar (the Macdonalds) where Scott was staying. They had 2 acres of FUN FUN FUN. The kids had so much fun, they went swimming, bike riding, exploring & god knows what else! I left Scott, Hallie & Dani there, and Molly & I went in to Jupiters to see Mum & Nan.

On Sat night, we had a BBQ at the Macdonalds farm (e i e i o) haha - couldn't resist that one!!

On Sunday, we got into Jupiters with all the kids, had our showers, got dressed & went to the wedding, which they had at the gardens - beautiful - except for the leaky pipes in the grass where all the guests seats were (alot of great shoes would have been ruined!)

So here are the photos I got....

Molly in the Motel (it was really hot)

Hallie & Danielle
Molly

Scott & I in Mums room

The wedding party (HUGE - 14 all up)

Brigid & David with their kids - Bethany & Stuart (he filmed the entire thing)

Mrs & Mrs Taylor (with Bethany) Bridesmaids - Gail, Kim & Kylie

Groomsmen - (don't know the first one) Stuart, Phil & Trevor

My cousin Phil's daughter - Madasan

Aunty Helen holding Phil's littlest son Kye (not sure on the spelling)

Mumma
Phil's partner Rhianna

Scott & I again

Nan & Aunty Jan

So the wedding was lovely - the reception was great! The kids slept out at the Mcdonalds & Scott and I stayed in at Jupiters, except it wasn't as romantic as we had hoped - by the time we got back to our room, I was SICK, very sick....LOL isn't that always the way!!

On Monday, the girls and I spent the morning at the Reef HQ, a great aquarium. There was so many of us, it was awesome. We went with Mum, Nan, David, Bethany, Stuart, Aunty Kerry & Uncle Glen, Aunty Jan & Uncle Peter, Rhianna, Phil & kids. They all loved it!

By the time I went out to pick up Scott, he'd done all our washing, and packed all our stuff up, so all we had to do was pack the car and get going. We left there at 4:30, drove an hour - fed the kids and ourselves, then took off. We did 1300kms in 14 hours, getting home at 6:30am yesterday.

*Updated - Scott insited that I re-phrase the 'WE' did 1300kms. Sorry Scott - YOU drove 1300kms, and i was as useless to you as boobies on a bull..... LOL

The kids went to school, and i put Molly down, scott & I had a sleep too & we all woke at midday. Molly was so buggered, she slept most of the day, all night & she's still asleep now!!

Our next holiday (to Broken Hill) isn't until September, so we have another 10 weeks to recover!