Homeschool Abseiling Day

Yesterday a couple of local homeschool groups got together to go abseiling for the day.

Thanks so much to Peace for being our guide.

We all had heaps of fun and are planning another day out soon :)

The last post

Well technically this is not the last post I ever write, well I hope so anyway, but it will be the last post from Rainbow Love Farm. Our house sold (again...the first sale fell through) so we are moving on. At the moment we are busy packing and cleaning.  And contemplating being homeless next week.
But there was enough sparetime over the weekend to go abseiling with a bunch of friends.

Adventure Party

Yesterday we had a party for Mr T who truns six tomorrow. We went down to the camp where P works and the kids had a go of some of the activities.

First they tried archery.

Then the mid ropes course which was heaps of fun.

Tui and I looked on from our perch in the tree.

Mr T monkeyed his way up the rockclimb.

This was a favourite, the super-surfer...

Zan made it to the top and managed to balance on the surf board.

And the yoyo looked like so much fun, Mr T called out, "I'm flying at last!"...

And lastly we sat by the lake while the kids had a canoe.

BigCity Life

Wow! Our weekend in the city was so busy and soooo much fun.

We started off on Friday at White water world on the Gold Coast...

It's just so big and bright...

Zan got wet...

...in fact we all got wet!

Mr T was very excited to see Sponge Bob...

I got scared on this water-slide. It felt like I was being flushed down a giant toilet!!!

There were water slides everywhere.

Then off to my brother's place to bond with the family.

Sweet cousins...

Saturday we took my nephew rock climbing at the Kangaroo Point cliffs.

They are right in the center of the city but you wouldn't know from this photo

First the kids all climbed the art work...I guess it was a warm up for the cliff.

My beautiful girls

Happy 13Th Birthday number 1 nephew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Zan relaxing under a tree

And Sunday we caught a train into the Valley (Rain and Mr T have never been on a train before so were impressed) We went to the markets and to China town where I finally found a place that sells Po Sum On...an awesome chinese herbal tincture that you can use for just about anything.
Then all tired and worn out we headed for home...
ahhh...it's quiet here.

We're back...

We had a wonderful time camping. I really enjoyed some quality time together without any distractions, TV and no house work (that might have to be my favourite bit of camping!)

We didn't go far, just an hour from home, north to Glastonbury Creek Camping area in the Brooyar State Forest.

It's a beautiful spot and wasn't busy. And best of all dogs ARE allowed! So Xena came with us and we didn't have to worry about dog sitters.

The kids had a go at gold panning (we didn't find enough to get rich but we found some nice stones.) This led to an impromptu lesson about gold mining and history and I've promised to take the children back up to Gympie in a couple of weeks to the gold mining museum.

We went bush walking and swimming relaxed around camp. Tui loved having everyone living at her level.

Rain and Zan cooked lots of meals on the fire while I lazed around.

MB was estatic to check out the local abseiling/ rock climbing cliffs. There are 36 climbs and it's a beautiful rock formation, a huge escsrpment over looking a beautiful valley.

The layers in the rocks led to another school lesson for the children about Geology and history.

Mb found me a little piece of rose quartz in the rock wall...the stone of love.

Although after a bit too much 'teacherliness' from me they kids decided to tape me up and gag me with gaffer tape.

This morning on our way home we went for a quick climb...we ended up staying a couple of hours.

It was the first climb I've done in years and it was soooo much fun! We'll be going again soon.

And I saw some beautiful trees...

But we are all nicely tired out now and glad to be home.