Holiday - 2006/10/29

• Daylight savings started last night, so it almost felt like a sleep in to have Stephen wake at 7am! We had a quick breakfast at home and then headed into Hallidays Point bakery for a coffee, croissants and the Sunday paper. Stephen then went for a bike ride along a bush path to the beach and Tae and Mike followed behind for a nice walk. When we got back to the caravan park everyone else was up and ready for the beach. The Dads and children headed for the beach and the Mums had a lovely chat over cups of tea on the verandah.
• There were many holes dug on the beach in the morning and it also included many tunnels, channels to the water, bridges over the channels using available sticks, and walls and towers. With the tide coming in, each major construction would eventually be swamped by the rising water. Sean was able to successfully capture the construction phase, but always seemed to miss out on the destruction phase! There was also a great deal of kicking of the footy on the beach, and running in and out of the water – a great time!
• The Cameron’s left just after lunch and it was sad to see them go. It was great to have everyone together and we all felt that this should be the first of many family holidays together. It was agreed that Mike & Tae would arrange the next holiday for April/May next year.
• The remainder of us, except for Kylie and Laura, then went on a bush walk to find the lookout. And it turned out to be a nice walk, but a fairly arduous track for Rob who was pushing a pram with a sometimes sleeping Elise, and Stephen who was riding his bike.
• Once again, a little bit of exercise was enough justification for ice creams upon our return.



• The Dads and kids enjoyed a game of Boulle later in the afternoon while the lovely ladies provided nibbles and thirst quenchers. Stephen seemed to come up with a different technique every time he through one of the heavy boulle’s, with varying degrees of success. The combination of Sean & Josh was too hard to beat – their consistency made them a tough challenge.
• It was time for a break from cooking bbq’s so the Dads were able to provide fish & chips for dinner, and after dinner (and Australian Idol) had finished Sean got out his Poker kit and we played poker for an hour or so. Not surprisingly peoples enjoyment of the game closely followed the degree of success they had in building their pile of chips. It maybe that Sean will have to do some overtime to pay back the bank all of his borrowings!