Ding ding, schools in! Whaaat was
the unanimous cry from the boys! Their Easter holidays had now stretched to 4
weeks and the store we were driving past tomorrow was going to be the last reception
for the rest of the week and we thought we had better get something to the
teachers!
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| The boys managed to prank De BIG tim this morning filling the sugar container with salt, that she spread on her breakfast cereal!! |
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| Sambo trying to catch us all some lunch! |
Despite some mild resistance we
managed to get something done and then got ourselves ready to go to Bell Gorge.
Our plan was to leave a bit later, take lunch with us, and spend the hottest
part of the day by the water, rather than sweltering in our van! The BFF came
at the same time and the boys were having a ball running down the track,
bouncing from rock to rock, especially Sam, who for something different had forgotten
his thongs! Oh well its only bush walking.....hmmmm....not sure how that one is
going to reintegrate back into city life.
Pretty soon we were at the top of
the falls which was amazing. Water was thundering over them and the kids were
all very excited.
After a few pics we crossed over and headed down to the
bottom with me having to run to keep up with them! Once there they were
straight into the water and other than to have lunch they hardly came out for
the next 4 hours. The rocks were pretty slippery and had lots of ledges so they
came up with names for their 7 bases “Slippy two” etc and they would all go
from one to the next to the next. The best one was slippy 4 where they used the
rocks as a slippery dip! It was great for both sets of parents as we got to
have some ‘quite time’.
A couple of local lads jumped of the top of the cliffs
and I was significantly tempted to do it, but it required me to walk the 10
minutes back up and having some quite time seemed like a better option!
We dragged our prune skinned
children out of the water and headed back up the track to the top of the falls,
and once there we edged our way over to the precipice. It was very safe but
still very nerve racking!
Again the BFF played, this time making mud pies on a
rock in the middle of the river while we chatted. After nearly five hours we
headed back, grabbed some fire wood and cooked dinner, mackerel gumbo, over the
open fire.
The BFF made a pretty awesome
cubby house out of the remaining firewood and after dinner Rob and Cad joined
us with Rob brining his camp oven with him, cooking us an super yummy damper
for desert.
It was pretty late for the boys
and it had been a massive day so once they hit the sack De retreated while I
sat for a while staring at the flames. I think I must have lasted 2 minutes
before I was asleep in my chair, eventually returning to my bed at some stage
of the night.
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