What a busy weekend! We drove to Blanchetown on Friday morning after dropping Eilish at school (she had elected to stay with friends) and amazingly for us nothing happened on the way. Actually, nothing happened on the way back either. Perhaps we are wearing our travelling bad luck out. The weather was looking a bit dubious but we were packed and nearly there. Of course it turned into a cracker of a weekend as you can see by the pics.
Blanchetown has the first of a series of Locks along the river Murray that allow the houseboats to travel up and down the river. The top small pic shows one of those self same houseboats and in the background a small boat about to use the Lock. Thats me in the kayak in the bottom pic.
The rugby boys spent most of the weekend in and out of the river, either being towed on the 'Doughnut' or getting lessons from me in our kayak. I did manage to have a paddle most days and also made the most of the early morning swims. In fact I think I used the early morning swims to help wake me up. The adults all socialised very well, too well perhaps as we were lucky to get to bed before 1am each morning.
We picked Eilish up on Sunday afternoon and made our way home to deal with the mountain of washing and finding something for dinner in our empty pantry. Sigh. Poor Connor was one of the walking dead having truly burnt the candle at both ends. Deciding that he might as well burn the candle in the middle as well Gary took him out to Elder Park to listen to the Guitar Festival. Both boys had a great time but didn't walk in the door til 11.30pm. Consequently Connor was a wasted unit this morning and it was decided to let him sleep it off. He woke up around lunchtime.
Thats all for now. Time to bring in all that washing and as it is the 1st of December we have to decorate the tree too.
HO HO HO
Credits - http://summertimedesigns.blogspot.com/ (Giving Kit)
Monday, December 1, 2008
Blanchetown
What a busy weekend! We drove to Blanchetown on Friday morning after dropping Eilish at school (she had elected to stay with friends) and amazingly for us nothing happened on the way. Actually, nothing happened on the way back either. Perhaps we are wearing our travelling bad luck out. The weather was looking a bit dubious but we were packed and nearly there. Of course it turned into a cracker of a weekend as you can see by the pics.
Blanchetown has the first of a series of Locks along the river Murray that allow the houseboats to travel up and down the river. The top small pic shows one of those self same houseboats and in the background a small boat about to use the Lock. Thats me in the kayak in the bottom pic.
The rugby boys spent most of the weekend in and out of the river, either being towed on the 'Doughnut' or getting lessons from me in our kayak. I did manage to have a paddle most days and also made the most of the early morning swims. In fact I think I used the early morning swims to help wake me up. The adults all socialised very well, too well perhaps as we were lucky to get to bed before 1am each morning.
We picked Eilish up on Sunday afternoon and made our way home to deal with the mountain of washing and finding something for dinner in our empty pantry. Sigh. Poor Connor was one of the walking dead having truly burnt the candle at both ends. Deciding that he might as well burn the candle in the middle as well Gary took him out to Elder Park to listen to the Guitar Festival. Both boys had a great time but didn't walk in the door til 11.30pm. Consequently Connor was a wasted unit this morning and it was decided to let him sleep it off. He woke up around lunchtime.
Thats all for now. Time to bring in all that washing and as it is the 1st of December we have to decorate the tree too.
HO HO HO
Credits - http://summertimedesigns.blogspot.com/ (Giving Kit)
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