Wednesday 11 January 2012

Holiday Update #3: NYE, Rocky and Poon-town

In our third and final update (I promise!!!) of our Christmas holiday, I bring you Rocky and Poon-town, or otherwise known as Rockhampton and Yeppoon.

On New Years Eve, we set off from Woodgate and headed north up the Bruce Highway to Rockhampton. Mr B did all of the driving - it took us about 4 hours with one stop for Little Miss L to have her lunch.

We arrived at L's place in Rocky and walked to Woolies and Dan Murphy's to get some supplies for the night, and came back to her house for a cool drink and some lunch. We then headed off on the 40 minute drive to Yeppoon.

The last time I went to Yeppoon I was 15 and on our Year 10 end of year trip to Great Keppel Island where all of the girls had a major crush on the boat crew member who had a nickname of 'Cookie' and got around in a tight fitting wetsuit. Ahhh those were the days... I can't remember much of Yeppoon but I do remember it wasn't as big as it is now. It really has grown.



We stopped in at our friends C & D's house. They have a little boy J who is so cute and was very generous in sharing his toys with Little Miss L. She had a whale of a time!

We headed off to D's parents house on the beach - they very kindly did a house swap with C & D so we could benefit from the beach front location, inground swimming pool and large house. We did a BBQ for dinner and had a great time sitting around and chatting with all of our friends for the night. Miss L slept very soundly and it was one of the best sleeps she had on our holiday.

The whole night was very laid back and exactly what we needed. Mr B however crashed and burned around 9:30pm - he was so tired! I woke him up around 11:30pm so he could bring in the new year with all of us, but we were in bed by 12:30am or so. Stuff the New Year. We're parents and we want our sleep!!!

The next few days involved swims in the pool, fun on the beach, sight seeing around Yeppoon and Emu Park, fish and chips in the park, and having some great times with our friends. We are so lucky to have such great friends who are so kind and generous and looked after us and housed us and fed us while we were up there. We only hope that we can return the favour some time soon :)

C xo

1 comment:

  1. You forgot my highlight!! Mr B ate pumpkin and added it to his list!

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