Road Trip Reminisce

It's been two years since our little family had a weekend holiday away from home. Yep, you read it correctly... Two years! We are not spoilt with trips, holidays or vacations... ☺

This was our first road trip as a family and hopefully this wasn't our last - even though our return trip home turned out to be slightly scary...

Photos are a perfect way to reminisce especially since I've uploaded heaps of mobile phone photos to Google+ recently. I can't believe two years have gone... We started our journey from Brisbane and drove west towards Warwick and then south to Texas and our end destination was the small country town of Bingara in New South Wales.

Family photos in the National Park

Texas, NSW, Australia

Oh, wonderful countryside!

La Familia

La Familia in motion

Beautiful sunset over Bingara

Old farmhouse

The windows had seen better days, but I still think they are beautiful!

Old stove

Hello!

Ah, the patina... ♥

Hubby and I ♥

More countryside

Panorama pix

Bingara Museum

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bingara town centre with shops, hall and cinema

Even my movie favourite Marilyn had a special spot in Bingara. 

All Nations Goldmine, Bingara, NSW.

 

 

 

 

For the first time in my life I visited a country cemetery. Wow, so different from any of the many cemeteries I've ever visited in Sweden.

 

 

 

 

 

 

An open gate to... ?

Driving home we almost hit a dead kangaroo on the road. We had oncoming traffic so hubby had to break really hard - so hard the break fluid cable broke and the breaks stopped working. Our next problem to find a mechanic open on a Sunday in the middle of nowhere... 

A distant relative to hubby's family was able to assist us!

 

All's well that ends well. 

We arrived home safe and sound later than planned, 

but at least we made it home!

♥♥♥

If you want to take a look at the original road trip posts:

Roadtrip 1

Roadtrip 2

Roadtrip 3

Roadtrip 4

Roadtrip 5

Roadtrip 6

Roadtrip 7

Roadtrip 8

Roadtrip 9

Roadtrip 10

Roadtrip 11

Roadtrip 12

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Happy Swedish Mother's Day 2016

Today we are celebrating The Swedish Mother's Day! We had a lovely chicken roast dinner and a scrumptious dessert awaits. So nice to be able to celebrate Mother's Day twice a year lol

The photo of Princess Lily is a year old or so, but I love it so much. She's standing with two bunches of chocolate roses - such a perfect gift! 

Welcome back to Term 2 everyone!

Yesterday was the first day back after the Easter Holidays. The kids were excited to see their friends after being apart for over two weeks. Not sure how excited our Year 4 boy was to exchange his Xbox One and focus on homework instead... ☺

Back to reality

Wow, Sunday came quickly. Tomorrow we'll be back to normal life again with school lunches, bus trips and early nights. I'm not looking forward to my normal 05am mornings, but know it won't take long until I'll get back into it. 11 weeks until the next school holidays... Not that I'm counting or anything lol

♥ Hope you all have a great Sunday ♥

New week

The last week of our Easter holiday is here... Not sure what's on the activity list... maybe a playdate or two, some baking and relaxing before the Term 2 of the school year starts next week. 

Linking to Blue Monday

Holiday fun times

Out n about in the suburban jungle lol

The kids and I are heading to the park... 

The park is small and no one hardly ever uses it. 

It's quite boring and is in desperate need of an update,

but

the kids still found a moment of joy while using the swings. 

☺☺☺

Easter Sunday Luncheon

My sister-in-law hosted a lovely Easter Luncheon on Easter Sunday.

Sis-in-law Beck with one of her many dogs... ☺

Lily and Aunty Beck

♥ Easter trio ♥

The whole family

Grant and I with my Uncle

♥ A belated Happy Easter from us four ♥