Yes we are home, though only for a short time. We snuck home for Mum's surprise birthday party and to catch up on 18 months away.
We stayed in some lovely places in NSW – Gum Bend Lake at Condobolin was nice, no water in the man-made lake yet but a free camp with hot showers is always great; we saw Utes In a Paddock (utesinthepaddock.com.au) which was really well done and well worth going for a look, we visited The Dish at Parkes (that's so much bigger than we expected), stayed at Dumaresq Dam near Armidale with some stunning Crimson Rosellas, just to name a few places that we visited.
We made our way into Queensland Monday 11th in pouring rain and drove through ½ metre of water on the east side of Kilcoy, nicely cleaning the underside of the caravan and car. We couldn't believe how much water was over the bridge and road, Anzac Memorial park was completely submerged. No cars were getting through but luckily we were allowed with the 4wd.
Yes, we are home, however we are booked on the Spirit of Tasmania in December so we aren't done travelling just yet. The only thing I'm not looking forward to is Erin in Year 10 next year, should be interesting, she's pretty good with her schooling though – most of the time. Show me a teen that's good all of the time!
It has been great catching up with family and friends, even Geoff's parents came down from Townsville to visit. We should be home for 4 or 5 weeks and may try for a bit of work while we are here. I tried to get my old job back at Woolies but it had been 3 months and 1 day since I finished at the Fremantle store, 1 day too late to walk into a job without going through the interview, induction and probation period again. "Sorry, rules are rules, no exception, even though we are really short staffed at the moment, if only you'd come in 2 days ago." Bugger. However, I am assured that I can have my job back when we return from Tassie, but I still have to do the interview, induction and probation for the third time. Woohoo.
