The Tobes machine

Tobes in his first match with the Lane Cove Tigers. Such focus. Go Tobes!!!

AFL Training week 1

All three are signed up for AFL this season with Bianca scoring an award at the first training with the Lane Cove Cats. Jamie and Kari from
Next door also signed up "you can't have a photo without the Marshes". An excellent first morning and I loved the artificial turf.

Clean up Australia Day

At work on the lane cove river.

To chicken?

To buy some chickens or not? That is the question. In preparation to potentially answer that question yes, Tracy and I went to a free North Sydney council chicken workshop. It was excellent. So was the centre where it was held which has this cool tree and their own community chickens. We are planning on chook sharing.

Holiday part 2 - boomerang beach

As the caravan park was booked out after 4 nights, we headed north to Boomerang beach, stopping off at Booti Booti national park for a look at the lake. We stayed at Moby's which was a luxurious house and they had a lovely heated pool. We played tennis every day, it was fantastic although kids prob preferred camping as they did more riding there (even though we did some at Moby's, there were overall less kids racing around on bikes. A great holiday.

Experiences on holidays

Most afternoons we went for a short drive from one mile beach and Bianca and Toby normally fell asleep so Connah would sit I. The car and Jake and I go for little walks, this was my favourite forest.

Though the surprise of the trip were the sand dunes we discovered when looking for somewhere to turn around after doing a drive by of another caravan park. Wholly Dooley, who knew these were just near Newcastle, compete with camel. All the kids want to go back to ride on the camels another time. Me too!

Caravan park holiday

The car was stacked and the trailer loaded (it's hard to fit 5 bikes in the car!!) and we were off to camp as a family for the first time. Turned out to be a fantastic holiday ( I was a bit worries about early waking hours of the kids but they slept slightly longer if anything and it was great to spend so much time outdoors). 

Boy have caravan parks changed since last I went. Pool with water slide, kids activities 3 times a day, putt putt golf, tennis and basketball courts. Amazing. We went to one mile beach which was also located next to the beach. Sensational and the kids loved riding their bikes everywhere.