Labour day adventure

Our plan for the labour day public holiday was : Go to toowoomba so hubby could do a small job for work, meet our friends at the park for morning tea then go down to crows nest national park for a bit of a bush walk and lunch then head home :) But as all Brown adventures nothing goes to plan and someone always gets injured or vomits :)and so this was a regular adventure....

We got up very early on Monday morning and made it in good time to Toowoomba, I stayed with my lovely mum while hubby went and did his small job...2 hours later (which we had planned on) he came and picked us up to head to the park, I'll be the first one to put my hand up "I can't read a map to save my life!!" And yes I'm sure Mr knightly knew that when i married him (or maybe it was in the small print..lol) And YES i got him lost we should have turned right not left! So we were late..I did say "sorry" :) So we had morning tea and my sister and her family also met us at the park which was great. And the guys did the usual-footy and Frisbee, while the big girls monitored the children and made sure the big boys behaved themselves..yeah good luck i hear you say!
After a while we got going to crows nest for the rest of our day,so we could get to the picnic area by lunch :)

Along the road we unfortunately came upon an accident and after four fire trucks, six ambulance and four police, and Mr knightly having a good sticky beak and got all the goss on the accident we had to go back and go down a detour road. So we got to the national park and decided to have lunch straight away because everyone was fading away! so on entry to the walking trails there was a sign saying that you shouldn't touch the water as there had been a sewage spill..well you could imagine all the "poo" jokes etc that was the main topic of conversation lol. It was an enjoyable walk though, coming to the end of the walk we seen a rock wallaby which was exciting and of coure we seen Mr knightly in various poses on top of rocks etc and jumping over poo creek and Edward falling INTO poo creeks lol.

We got back to the rest area tended to all the wounds that Lizzie and Jayne had just got walking(Tripping)across the car park and had some snacks and drinks and toilet stops then we decided to head back to toowoomba and got to the picnic point BBQ area and i think it's a look out too. so we all got into our cars and we noticed something going on in Edward and Elinors car so we pulled back in to find out if everything was ok....Edward can't find his mobile phone..Oh no!! so we looked in the cars, in the eskies, around the picnic area, on the road, at the toilets, IN the toilets (they were green toilets, yum the smell :) "Oh no could it be some where on the trail???" Aargh!! So mr knightly and Edward went back and did the bush walk again looking for the phone while my sisters husband kept trying to call his phone but it kept going through to the message bank..Could it have fallen into the poo creek?? so Elinor and i continued to search for the phone and then to speculate where it could be.. Elinor had ideas that it was a conspiracy between the big boys so that Edward could get an iphone lol
The boys returned with no phone, nothing more to be done so back to town we headed, along the way i wanted to stop at a roadside stall and buy a pumpkin $3 for a Huge! qld blue..yummo, my fav. type of pumpkin. And behold the phone!!!! Elinor had checked the glove box and there it was lol lol Poor Edward no iphone for him :( lol
We got to picnic point after dark but there was lights and so we rugged up the kids it was a bit cool, and sent them off to play...Playgrounds are danger zones you know!.. First Lydia came a cropper on the "Safety" see saw and Brandon was injured on the peddle chair ride and he wasn't even riding it, on that note we left the park and followed my sister round to her place and picked up some stuff and said farewell :) It was great to spend the day with her and her family. Homeward bound we stopped at old faithful (MacDonald's) and had dinner,and the kids played on the playground...sorry ...danger zone.. where Jayne got stuck in between the curly bit of the slide! so i had to go and quickly rescue her. so that ended our dinner at MacDonald's :)

Got home and transferred all the kids into there beds and settled in for the night, or so i thought! I woke up in the middle of the night to Jayne vomiting up all her MacDonald, yes and it continued a further three times! I woke up a tad tired in the morning....hubby having slept through the whole thing!

I love our Road Trips!!!