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This year, Tomas was Vitruvius from the Lego Movie and Ethan was a skeleton cat. In case you don’t know, Vitruvius is a groovy looking wizard. I helped Tomas make his costume, but he painted his shirt and his staff. Ethan had most of his costume already with the addition of cat ears. Tomas was […]

We had a ninja party in our backyard to celebrate Ethan’s 4th birthday. He invited a few friends from ‘school’ , or rather, daycare, and three came, which made it a special day. In total there were 14 kids. We played musical statues, pass the parcel, and had a treasure hunt – all good fun! […]

Our last day, and we headed to Urunga lagoon which has a long boardwalk from the mainland, across the lagoon, to a beautiful beach with sand dunes. The kids enjoyed the few access points from the boardwalk where they saw hermit crabs, soldier crabs, red crabs and various fish up close, and of course they […]

One night, as the kids had napped during the day, we decided to visit the beach at night with our head lamps and glow sticks and run around a bit. To our surprise we discovered these rather large white crabs that Mike later confirmed were ghost crabs. Their bodies were as big as my palm! […]

We had another gorgeous sunny day so  we headed north for a 10 minutes drive to Monee Beach where we saw another beautiful estuary! Mike and I actually had some relaxing time lounging on the sand, reading our books while the kids explored the shallow waters. Now that Ethan can swim, and we could see […]

The next day we headed out to the Dorrigo rainforest, which was about an hour drive away. Ethan crashed out on the way, which was good as we spent all exploring the park, which included a 6.6km hike!!  Both boys walked the entire way! What a gorgeous spot! We saw tiny  scrubwren birds that have […]

Our first morning at Coffs Barbour and the kids are excited to explore our rather basic holiday home, however they manage to find a few boardgames: star wars monopoly and cleudo (‘clue’ in Canada) which were a huge hit! They also spent a lot of time sliding down the carpeted stairs on their bottoms! We […]

Our next stop was South West Rocks, a small town with a beautiful estuary. After a stop for lunch where the kids kept themselves entertained with ‘magic trucks’,  the kids joined a very fit grandma and her daughter for a soccer game. Then they ran to cool off in the shallow waters before we had […]

This school hols we decided to brave a road trip with the kids somewhere a bit warmer after a rather long winter! We booked a house in Coffs Barbour, about 6 hours drive north of Sydney, and planned to stay one night near Taree on the way up. It worked out quite well as we […]