Sorry it's been a few days since our last update! Not really heaps to report, we've travelled a bit since being in Yeppoon, had a stop over at Mackay and then to here at Airlie Beach. The trip from Yeppoon found us on the highway for a long days drive through mostly bush scenery until we got closer to Mackay where most sides of the road were full of Sugar Cane crops. We had a couple of stops on the side of the road for snacks and of course a lunch stop! Wraps for Pheobe seem to be the flavor of the month and they are easy to make on the side of the road! Maurice has been taking lessons from Trent when it comes to 'bush wee's'! Felicity is getting more use to the car than she would like I think with each time we stop she yells "Yeah" and claps her hands! I've suffered from a fever with major hot and cold sweats, a headache and a seriously sore throat the past few days. I actually ended up filling my emergency script that Dr. Joe did for me for some antibiotics and it's only today that I feel like doing anything at all! So it was probably good that we were just in the car travelling and I could put my head back a little. The fever has stopped now, the headache is slowly resolving (thank goodness for Panadol and Neurofen!) and the throat has mildly improved, hoping the antibiotics will keep doing there job there.
Anyway, enough of all of that. We have made it to Airlie Beach and a great caravan park. It's a Big4 called Adventure Whitsunday Resort. Everything we need is here! Such a great place to stay for the kids with Swimming pool and water slides, two playgrounds, jumping pillow, outdoor movies, children's bathroom, ducks to feed! There is a kids club that we can access on the weekend if we want to for Pheobe, Maurice and Felicity are too young! Our particular site is close to all the things we will need to use so we are all very happy.
We've been for a quick look down the main street and there is lots to see and do there too. The Big Lagoon for a swim, we have also been told to look out for a bead shop so that Pheobe can make bracelet or necklace! Thanks Kerren for the heads up on that one. And of course we are in the Whitsundays so a trip to one of the Islands is on the cards too. Hoping that the weather will improve so we can enjoy it all a little more. It's been rather windy and a little overcast the past couple of days. Still warm enough for shorts, t.shirts and thongs, so we aren't doing too bad!
Anyway, here are some pics from the past few days, haven't taken many as there hasn't been many photo opportunities to tell you the truth. Great to speak with GD, Samara and Nannie Rose today, nice to hear your voices, we are missing you all very much. Mac and Mollie are having a good time at the farm with Nannie Rose and Papa, so that makes us all happy too. Sorry Papa that you haven't had anything to read when you come in at night the past few nights, will try and keep it more regular because we heard you enjoy the updates!!!
Pheobe & Maurice on the outside of the rodeo ring at the Great Western Hotel in Rockhampton.
We had lunch at the Great Western Hotel coz Lee Kernaghan use to own it!
They have a big Rodeo arena at the back of the hotel which of course holds weekly rodeo's & comps, they also can change the arena & hold concerts here. Lee has of course played here, along with Keith Urban and many other country singers! Pheobe & Krista had a ball here eating lunch and listening to the music that we know and love. Trent & Maurice had a call watching the big TV showing all the bull riding events - Go the 'Buckin Bulls!' And, now when we see the big bulls in paddocks the kids yell 'Buckin Bulls!' Just for you Papa!!!
This was a display of what a typical bull rider wears!
Coming into Rockhampton we took this pic of a Big Bull, we didn't notice it until we were right on it because we were making sure we were in the right lane at the round about. So we just took the photo through the car windscreen.
Flick having a bath in the kitchen sink in the caravan. The night we stopped at Mackay it was too hard for us to take her to the showers so I just bathed here in the sink & Pheobe & Maurice went & had a shower with Trent.
Felicity loved her bath in the sink! She sat and watched kids shows on the TV. I know we have a shower in the van but she doesn't seem to like it in there very much and it takes a while to heat up the water, so I tried this and she loved it!
These are some of the birds that get fed daily at the Caravan park we stayed at in Mackay.
This is a pic taken from the car of a Train carting the Sugar Cane. It's a familiar scene up here at the moment, and as you can see they grown the sugar cane right up to the road and even right up to their houses!
This was just a quick pic that I took this arvo of the kids feeding the ducks here at our site in Airlie Beach. They are really having a great time.
Oh, Happy Birthday to Morgan for yesterday! Hope you feel better soon and can celebrate. We were thinking of you and are sure that you were spoilt.
Take care everyone.
Love The Guye Gang! xo
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