Crazy adventurers apply now!

I don’t know why, but for some reason we seem to attract crazy adventures into our life. Nothing seems to be simple, things always happen to change our plans and on top of that, we’re usually trying to manage with two toddlers in tow.


Let’s take Saturday as an example……

We decided to go for a drive with our friends late Saturday afternoon and have a BBQ dinner. Sounds simple right? Nothing unusual about having a BBQ dinner with friends is there? Apparently for us, there is.

The main track started to look more like a river

Firstly, a drive and BBQ dinner with our friends means getting 5 children under four-years old and 4 adults into 2 4WD’s and heading bush on a dirt track. We weren’t even off the bitumen road when the heavens opened up and the monsoonal rains we had been waiting for made an appearance. We decided to push on despite a few fun slides on the already muddy main track and just take a drive for the fun of it.

Onto the track to the Latram River and the rain started coming down harder and the lighting began. I think at this point none of thought we’d actually be staying at the river for dinner, but what the hell, we were half way there so we might as well keep going.



The "puddles" on the Latram track



Miriam loves the bumps and was giggling every time we bounced up and down on the track. Meanwhile I’m having heart palpitations every time we drove through anything bigger than a puddle.

I think the small ones were a bit disappointed that we got to the river and just turned around and went home again – Miriam especially was all ready to go for a swim – but with lighting around none of us wanted to go in the water.



Following the G's through the larger 'puddles'



So, back we went, more bumps, more puddles, more mud sliding, rain still pelting down. Everyone eating from a box of Pizza Shapes (cause by this point we were all starving) and singing along to “Hey now Rock Star” (aka All Star by SmashMouth, the theme from the first Shrek movie).

Back at our house with 5 very wound up kids, we put the potatoes in the oven and sausages on the BBQ in the backyard instead of on the fire. The kids got the picnic rug out and we all sat on our lounge room floor and ate dinner while the rain continued to bucket down outside.

Not quite the afternoon we had planned but fun nonetheless and definitely an adventure to remember.




"Jazz Hands"



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