Floriade

Jack, Josie and I popped into Floriade whilst waiting for Richard to be discharged from hospital.

October School Holidays

Our October School Holiday plans were cancelled due to a kangaroo.

Richard hit a kangaroo on his road bike going about 50km/hr.  He broke 9 ribs, broke is clavical and punctured his lung.  He got airlifted to Canberra Hospital and spent the whole holidays there.  Surgery on his clavical and draining for his punctured lung.  He is home now, and has a long recovery ahead.

And that's a wrap on the 2019 ski season for us!

Rockbottom the Musical

Merimbula Public School did another school play this year, Rockbottom the Musical!  Jackson and Josie both had speaking parts, Jack was Juan 1 and Josie was a Cavey.  Great night.

Snow day for Fathers Day

Book week 2019

This years choice for book week was Mr Shark from the Bad Guys books and Augustus Gloop from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Preliminary Final at Narooma

Jackson has had a great first AFL season this year.  His team finished 4th so made it through to the finals, they won their semi against Pambula, then won their preliminary against Narooma, but unfortunately lost the grand final against Bermagui.  The below photo was taken in Narooma, just before their prelim game.

Weekend at the Snow for my Birthday

We spent the weekend at Thredbo, staying at the YHA, for my birthday.  We, well most of us, had a great time, great conditions and the YHA was a great place to stay.  Poor Richard twinged his back on Thursday, so even though he still came up with us - he didn't get out on the snowboard.

Day trip to Thredbo

We went up to Thredbo for the day on the weekend, also managed to catch up with my cousin who happened to be there from Sydney. Kids are getting fast now, so feel like we got heaps of skiing in.

A couple of days in the snow

We snuck back up to the snow for a couple of days, got two full days of skiing/boarding in and stayed at Selby and Emma's (who are over here on a snow holiday) cabin for the night in Moonbah.

Surfing at Bournda Island

Our Thredbo week

We had a week in Thredbo for the first week of school holidays.  We stayed in a lovely apartment right near the Friday Flat Chairlifts.  The snow was a little sketchy when we arrived, but luckily a large front came through on Wednesday night and we got some lovely powder snow for our last two days.

First trip to the snow for the season

Winter surf

Dolphin Cove

He finally agreed to a haircut!

Before                                                                           After!

Mothers Day

I had the best Mother’s Day yesterday. We went to Bunga Beach, just north of Tathra. It was beautiful there, and we had the beach to ourselves. We swam, surfed, body surfed and then Richard cooked bacon and eggs afterwards.

Zone Cross Country

Josie made the zone cross country this year, she competed on Friday and came 13th overall.  Super proud of her :)

Batemans Bay

Richard entered a 13km paddle challenge at Batemans Bay, which he did on his SUP. So we all went up, stopping for a surf in Broulee.

Flag bearer at Anzac Day Ceremony

Jackson was the flag bearer at this years Anzac Ceremony in Merimbula.

Stromlo, the Cousins and Freo Game

Then onto Murrambateman to stay with the cousins, we spent the morning at Stromlo with them, watched one of Will's basketball games the next day and went on to see the Dockers beat Greater Western Sydney at Manuka Oval.

Mountain Biking in Thredbo

We kicked off the school holidays with a few days in Thredbo, checking out the mountain bike trails.

 Josie and I hiked to the top of Mt Kosciuszko

 The boys on the Flow Trail, taken from the chairlift