Monday, November 20, 2006

14th November - More geordie town

Note to self, 3 kids have way too much energy, fact. I have no idea how Paul and Glenda cope all the time. We were knackered after just 4 days, but it is easy to see why you have them though. Hopefully we managed to help out whilst we were there.

Paul went off to work Monday morning very early, and after dropping the kids off at the Grandparents' place, Glenda very kindly took us to the Hunter Valley for some more wine tasting.

Obviously we were in our element and before lunch we'd visited 4, Hungerford Hill, Kevin Sobel, Rosemount Estate and Lindemans who also had some fudge tasting too. The last two were a particular favourite as we drink those back home. The wine places were very accomodating and after a LOT of egging on from Glenda we managed quite a few glasses before lunch. We may have been slurring a little. After lunch we also went to Tyrrells and then called it a day as we needed to get Nathan off to cricket. Whilst in Tyrrells we suffered a 10 minute mega storm, the result of which was trees down and a lot of debris across the roads. Crazy weather they have in Oz land.

The rest of the day was quite lazy really. I put on the last 4 blogs from the previous stuff we had done.

In the evening we got to play pool, Nathan liked to play the game, Jack liked to use his hands to put the balls in the holes, whether it was his turn or not and Issy liked to get the balls out of the collection hole as she could just reach it and either put them on the table or on the floor. I feel we both did well to get a full game in at one stage.

The next day we got a lift into Geordie central and we had a wander around. We went to the art gallery to see some weird contemporary art, some of which was done in crayon, I kid you not.

After we went to the lighthouse and beyond and saw some more dolphins playing around. Then we hit Nobby's beach for a bit of a tan session. We are losing opportunities to do it now so we have to be brown enough to come home to. We finished off with a cheeky beer at the harbour.

In the evening there was more playing, a new game called Hullabaloo, apparently Grand dad H's favourite game. Sarah is now a big fan too and was well into the 'Funky dancing' bit. I on the other hand struggled as it has a speaker which tells you what to do and I just couldn't hear it so ended up looking old and stupid.

Also, note to self, never hand to hand feed a one year old chocolate as they will get it everywhere even on their feet, clothes and nappy. Just go straight for the gob!

Thank you to the Hilliers again for putting up with us, the family is awesome and they hosted fantastically. We got to use nice toilet paper again, got to watch sky tv including the premiership, got to have a roast, got to have a nice shower, got to use a proper sofa, got to have good fat pillows and be around normal people. Thank you again.

Not going to choose a favourite from Nathan and Jack as they are both equally chaotic and fun, but Isabelle got attached to me, luckily, so I will choose her! Quite sad to be leaving tomorrow.

An early 4:30am start tomorrow,

laters

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