This year was going to be a very special Christmas. It was our first Christmas in our new house at North Lakes, followed shortly by the birth of our favourite daughter, Emma. On Christmas day, we decided to celebrate Christmas at Mt Mee instead, which was great fun for Declan, as he zoomed around the dam in Darren’s canoe, until the motor fell off the back and ended up at the bottom of the Dam. Somehow they managed to retrieve…
Everybody needs good neighbours! We had a couple of days left before we flew back home and decided we needed to tick a couple of bucket list items. Our first stop was the Ramsay Street (Pin Oak Court) set of the TV show neighbours. It was a little surreal seeing the houses after watching them for years on TV. While we have never really been a huge fan of neighbours, it was still good to connect the dots, so to…
The Otway Fly Tree Top Park was lots of fun. We were able to walk through the park and see some very life-like dinosaurs, waterfalls and climb the spiralled staircase to the top of the tower. The view was amazing. It was a little easy the way the tower swayed in the breeze. After the Otway National park we continued down the road a bit further to see the famous Twelve Apostles. It was pretty windy once we got out…
We arrived in Melbourne! After a pretty deep flight, we were all pretty exhausted and just chilled for the night in our hotel room. Our first stop was to visit the Geelong Cats stadium and take a few photos. We then continued down the great ocean road towards Bells beach, where the movie Point Break was filmed.