Mike Handes: Holiday

Big travel day today.
Stephen woke us at 5am (marvelous) & we were on our way at 7:40am. We got some extra sustenance at Bairnsdale to keep us going (large coffee’s).
Stephen got a bit bored with the Cars DVD and asked for the Incredibles, but he was bored of this before the previews finished! He asked for Fireman Sam, and he then watched Fireman Sam for the next 5 hours (over & over again).

Our only drama was when Stephen announced he need to wee (right now!) just as we got onto the Motorway in the heart of Melbourne. It took us about 10 minutes to find an exit where we could stop, during which time Mike introduced Stephen to holding the end of his penis to stop the wee coming out.
It all ended happily though :-)

We made it to Torquay at 1:15pm and we found the most enormous playground for Stephen to play in. It covered at least half an acre and had lots of raised walkways, firemans poles, ladders, etc…

The best feature was the diggers. There were three of these (one for each of us) and it has two levers for digging in the sand like a real crane and you can spin the digger and dump the sand in a new pile.

We went to Bells Beach, which is only 5 minutes out of Torquay. Incredibly, Stephen fell asleep between Torquay and Bells Beach.
When we were leaving Bells Beach we spotted an Echidna & stopped to take some photo’s.
The echidna completely ignored us & wasn’t bother in the least by the silly humans.

We had booked a cabin at Anglesea in advance, so 15 minutes on from Bells we were at our next home.

Stephen was asleep so Taemar & Mike also had a rest. After the drama of Stephen needing to wee on the motorway it was ironic that when Stephen woke up he had wet his pants! No major drama though – clean, dry clothes and we were off and running again.
Taemar washed some of our dirty clothes while Stephen & Mike had a swim in the indoor heated swimming pool.
In the evening we went to the Golf Club – more fish & chips for Stephen followed by ice cream – yummy!
Drove 440km.
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