Entry 4 - Ballina

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On Thursday 28th of April we arrived at dad’s uncle John’s place at Medowie, just north of Newcastle. Some of Dad’s cousins and their kids came over for dinner. The next day John took us four wheel driving on the sand dunes at Stockton beach. We drove to ‘tin city’ (about five houses that people had built among the sand dunes). We then visited Kat, Jembe and India at Smiths Lake for a night. Ash vomited 17 times during the night and filled up 3 and a half lunch boxes. The next day was Dad's birthday and we drove all day to Ballina.

The next two nights we stayed at this really good caravan park in Ballina which had minigolf , a games room, a jumping pillow and a camp kitchen. We went to the Byron Bay market and did some busking. There was a cool painted magic bus at the festival. I bought a green energy smoothie made of seaweed.

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