Blogs from Box Hill, Victoria, Australia, Oceania - page 2

Day 287 - Box Hill North Grant was off to work at half six this morning but we just about managed to nod back off to sleep after his car left the street!! When we did drag ourselves out of bed the girls were already up and about in the family room with a new game to keep them occupied, make Daisy jump over Charlotte! It kept them out of trouble for quite a while and then we got a call from Grant to say that if we wanted to go and see him at work we could. That sounded like fun so we got dressed and headed out to the police station. Since he was a kid I remember Grant wanting to be a policeman so it comes as no surprise that he loves his ... read more

Day 285 - Peterborough to Box Hill North Before the alarm clock fulfilled its alerting destiny we could hear Kalvin outside just after 5am, he’d obviously woken up early and was getting ready for the fishing trip. We cheekily lay there to get a couple more minutes but he must have known and banged on the door to get us moving! We’d done all the preparation last night so just needed to grab our bags and go. We headed out of Peterborough in the pitch black with nobody else on the roads, only mad fishermen and Englishmen get up this early we thought! Kalvin popped along the tight, twisting country roads until we finally got to Lake Bullen Merri which is a brackish crater lake near Camperdown. It’s thought that it was formed by two overlapping ... read more

Day 279 - Box Hill We wake up with the strangest feeling this morning, it’s a Saturday, we’re at the Box Hill Resort with the Adams and we have no hangover - this is unprecedented!! After a self-imposed ‘Friday Night Off’ we all managed a reasonably early night and therefore wake up with plenty of energy for the day ahead. Now all we need to figure out is what to do with it! We swing easily in to the breakfast routine and then start to gear up for Charlotte to go to a party at lunchtime until she realised that it’s actually tomorrow! Well that changes everything! We took the opportunity during the coolness in the morning to make the finishing touches to the 'Close to Home' Gumnut Babies geocache and then headed out with the ... read more

Day 277 - Box Hill North We have a huge CONGRATULATIONS message to shout out this morning, to ourselves! It’s our 10th Wedding Anniversary today! We hadn't gone overboard on presents, but we had got a few items stored away on the assumption we would be tucked up in the bush. The intended use of a bottle of Moscato, some Maggie Beer pate, Maggie Beer Cabernet paste, tasty cheese and Margaret River chocolate are all on hold as we are still at the ‘Box Hill Resort’! Instead it looks like we’re going to be treated to more culinary delights from head chef Grant with willing assistant Mr Howells! We opened our cards to one another this morning, very lovely both of them and then we opened the card given to us by the Coulsells before we ... read more

Day 275 - Rye to Box Hill A beautiful sound wakes us up this morning, children playing Rummikub! Charlotte, Amy, Georgia and Ethan are having a great time playing and then all of a sudden a familiar sound comes over the air waves ‘Errrrrrrrrrr’ which is the time’s up buzzer sound that we make when somebody is taking too long on their go!!! We’ve taught them well!! The morning after the night before is rarely a pretty one and now we can hear the clinking of bottles being cleared up. We shoot out of bed, trying not to wake sleeping beauty (Jordan) who must have snuck in during the early hours. We find Bill is already up and starting to wade through the empties strewn around the outside eating area. Crikey, we’d got through a few! ... read more