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Published: February 24th 2011
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Trip to Bright 18/02/11-21/02/1
Last Friday, Brady and I headed off up the Hume Hwy towards Bright, Victoria, for you Tasweigians thats up in the Alpine country near Mt Beauty and Mt Hotham. We drive the van at a steady pace of 90km/ph so the drive took us a quick (haha) 5 hours! Oh well, it was good and I reminiced the whole way!
We set up camp once we got there and waited for Mum and Dad to arrive, which they did about 6pm I think? We sat through the rain and after a very hilarious game of Spicks and Specks, the board game, we said our goodbyes and headed to bed. Mum said to me "Wake up whenever you like and we'll have a big cook up of bacon and eggs at our site!"
9:40 Saturday 17/2/11 - The phone rings. Mum: "Morning, sorry to wake you. Just taking dad to the hospital." At which point I think F*** THE OLD BASTARDS HAD A HEART ATTACK! Mum: "He's got a fish hook stuck in his finger". Now for those of you that know dad, you'll be laughing already as he doesn't, and to my knowledge never
has in my 21 years, fish!! So mum choofed off to the hospital and then to the doctor and dad returned back with a mere bandaid, HAHA!
Anyway, they had their cookup of bacon and eggs for lunch lol and the rest of the day we just sort of hung around and relaxed.
That whole day, it rained, and rained and rained and rained some more. So considering everything of mum and dads and ours was wet, we went accross the road from mum and dads site to "Keechie and Kraals" and borrowed their porch to keep dry, most brilliant idea dad's ever had. (Did I mention Keechie and Kraal weren't there?)
Anyway, over dinner we asked dad to explain to us exactly how the fish hook ended up in his finger, and this is my best understanding of the event lol!
So, Caitlin (my older sister), had a M*A*S*H themed birthday party for her 18th birthday, she's now 26 years old, so thats 8 years ago.
Dad had dressed up as Henry Blake who on the show is an avid fisher and wears a floppy bush hat adorned with fish hooks, so naturally, dad
had the same sort of hat for the party. After the party, the hat got pushed to the side with the intentions of removing the fish hooks to wear the hat whilst camping. Somewhere along the line, dad had through his flanelette shirt onto the hat, and they'd both ended up in the garage.
Dad decided he wanted to take his flanny to Bright so, knowing the two were intwined together, he grabbed the whole lot and brought everything in a plastic bag, to Bright. On the Saturday morning it was a bit chilly so dad went to grab his flanny to put on and HEY PRESTO. Dad: "Nyree, come here please. I have a fish hook in my finger" Mum: "Where the bloody hell did the fish hook come from?" Dad: "Doesn't matter where it came from, I know exactly where it is!!".
Upon further conversation later the next night, dad had a good laugh as he finally saw the funny side of that conversation and realised that is exactly what anyone who knows dad, the NON fisher, would ask when presented with that statement haha!
Anyway, so after that the rest of the trip was fairly uneventful lol!
Brady and I had our one year anniversary on the Sunday, we shared gifts and went out to dinner at the local pub, because that was all that was open lol!
Monday, we went to the brewery and had a beer and a garlic bread, got an ice cream from the ice cream shop and headed home!
All in all, a nice relaxing trip!
Until next time....B,L,M xx
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OMG Lucy this is hilaious. I just had the biggest laugh at Dad's expense. I can just imagine how the whole saga unfolded. One thing though I don't think I would have indulged as much as to take him too the hospital the big GIRL!!!! Can't wait to taunt him about this one. Hope you two are having the time of your lives. I'm absolutely jealous as hell. Love you both. See you soon. Stay safe. Love Big Sisxxxx