Sunday, 28 April 2013

The Great Outdoors

We had an almost long weekend this week, with a day off on Thursday...  Thursday, we had an afternoon picnic in the front yard... The girls have been loving these beautiful blue sky days.


We all ate our lunch out the front...


And afterwards, the girls took a bit of a walk through the bush out the back.


Just a couple of candid moments.


Later in the afternoon, we headed to Auntie Karen's place to celebrate grandma's birthday...  Alas, the only photo we managed of this was of the birthday cake!


On Friday, the girls came into town to have breakfast (and lunch) with daddy... they wondered around Martin Place and then down Pitt Street and through the QVB... The girls loved the bus ride into the city with daddy, and again on the way home at the end of the day.

Continuing the theme of outdoors, we headed over to the local park for a fish and chips picnic...


And then... off to the Lane Cove River Tourist Park for our first real camping trip.  Here are the girls starting to get into the swing of things while we set up the tent.


We were camping with Akira and Emika, Thomas, Matthew and Ellie and their folks.


Here's Claire with her 'boyfriend' Akira...
 
 
Here are the kids helping to get the fire going for dinner.


And a little visitor...


Ellie found some colourful friendly natives..


While the bigger kids terrorised the camping grounds!


Come evening, and the time came to sit around the fire..


The kids took turns making up stories for each other...



Just a couple of shots of the kids in the dark with the fire.


And finally, what the kids had really been waiting for, marshmallows!


This is what camping is really about.


Shortly later another local joined in on the festivities.


In the morning, the kids enjoyed freshly cooked bacon and egg sandwiches.


And then set off plotting the rest of the day.


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