What happens if you take a whole lot of comments from everyone on the trip and just mash them together?
There were so many favourite parts:
- fireworks
- having left over pudding for breakfast
- everyone gathered round the bonfire
- roasting marshmallows and damper
- fireworks display and sparklers
- sleeping in the tent
- jelly beans
- the company
- kids being busy mucking around
- having a blast building dams
- playing “families”
- counting bridges
- my kids being exhausted enough to sleep in a tent!!
- my kids really enjoyed the river crossing
- singing songs (badly and loudly)
- the swing
- the scenery and weather
- Gustav’s admiration of Taylor (who was playing very hard to get!)
- Carly (2.5 yrs) walking almost all the way in and all the way out and announcing to those behind her “follow me mateys” in her best pirate voice
- the kids all taking turns in the buggy racing over the midway bridge (fun with baby buggies!)
- watching the boys make the dam in the river
- everyone helping each other out with carrying gear, pushing (and carrying!!) the buggy, carrying kids over water
- weather forecast coming true
- I can bring my 3 year old next time
- the fire, dam building and fireworks. I am fairly sure even some kids enjoyed it (not just the dads)
- sleeping in til 7.30!
- the dinner and dessert – there was plenty and it tasted mighty good
- that all the kids seemed happy to be around anyone – I saw little of Hamish when we were walking, he had a great time walking up ahead at his own pace.
- we had a great time, thanks all for a neat weekend
- it was a constant cute-fest with pirate-Carly demanding I’M THE MATEY
- I’m still stunned that Beth made it both there and back with that buggy and didn’t once collapse with exhaustion.
- it was the first time I’ve ever seen bread baked on the end of a stick and over a fire
- I realised the true and never-ending power of jellybeans
- I also realised how a simple game of ‘Hide the Hat’ could keep kids enthused for quite some time
- basically, the weather rocked, the company rocked and my back held its temper.