Decided not to go for a ride this morning. Char and Evie were first up and in the house. Followed quickly by Layla. Sophie didn’t wake till about 9:30! Such a sleeper! We had scrambled eggs, salmon and bacon for brekkie and Sophie, when she woke up, had hot cross buns..

Lazy morning was had and we went fishing for guppies with a strainer strapped to a stick. Very effective. Got over 30 guppies in about an hour. The kids then kept heading down for more.

Amanda made a great Thai beef salad for lunch then they packed up and headed off around 2pm. So we had a very quite afternoon just us four cuffs.

We went back to the creek and took turns fishing for more guppies. I think we have decimated the local population of small aquatic life.

Sophie wants to return them to the creek tomorrow.

We played jenga and made yellow chicken curry for dinner. Then another quick game of jenga and bed for the girls.

As predicted Charlotte woke up first. Surprisingly she walked past all the eggs at 5:30 and came into our room to get the ipad. After drifting back off we were awoken at 6:30am ( the agreed time ) by Charlotte rallying the troops.

All eggs were collected and dumped on the table in 30 seconds flat. Quite some time was spent sorting and splitting the booty.

Meanwhile toast and buns were on hype menu whilst Bart and I got our selves ready for a ride.

We headed off in the same direction as yesterday and it was a glorious morning. The girls wanted to go for a ride so we only did the Boree track loop. Good ride then tag teamed with the girls and both Belinda’s went for a ride up the end of the valley whilst we had showers and I made eggs and salmon for breakie.

Kids were left to their own devices, fishing for guppies and tadpoles and climbing the tree.

We had unexpected visitors in the afternoon. The previous night Jason and Amanda texted to say hi and we asked them if they wanted to come up.

So they were expected around 2pm. Meanwhile Bart and bel packed the van and headed home about 1:30pm. We had about 15 minutes to clean up and have some lunch and bel made a late round of scones that filled everyone up.

As we tucked into an adhoc rissole and flat bread they came over the hill.

Jason and Amanda with Evie and Layla in tow sat down for tea and coffee.
The girls played very well and Charlotte took the others on a long tour of the place and visited the horses. Kids were very impressed.

I made an eye fillet plus spuds and beans for dinner. The kids had pasta.. Charlotte was a tad devo that she wasn’t getting a baked dinner.

Early night was had after a few glasses of wine and all began again in the morning.