Snowy Sunday afternoons

Hmmm... what would we do on a snowy afternoon??

Windy Sunday afternoons.

We looked out on a cold and windy afternoon and thought what are we going to do?? Then I saw the bushes being blown about and realised it had been quite sometime since we let the kites out to play. B2 is obsessed with her rollerblades, so they came along too. We met up with some of our loveliest friends and had a wonderful afternoon.

Enchanted and King Billy Walks

Day 3 at Cradle and we did a couple of the short walks.
B1 followed a very fat, very busy wombat. We were surprised to be up so close to such a big fella. B2 was very scared in the King Billy walk. A mist rolled in and it was very creepy, I have to admit. After a fantastic weekend I gave B1 the street directory and said lead us home. He took us home via a 'short cut' muddy dirt roads, but beautiful farm pastures and in great time. I was most impressed with his navigation skills and have no worries about handing the map over on our trip up the Australian east coast. (Ok, I may get a little tense ... afterall the mainland is much bigger than Tassie).

Cradle Mountain, TAS

Finally, we committed to a weekend at Cradle. We'd talked about it, hoped we would make it, but finally decided to 'just do it'. Boy were we glad we did. On arrival to our accommodation we were greeted by a number of little fat pademelon. B1 had a wonderful time photographing and getting acquainted.

We stayed at the Wilderness Village in comfortable cottages and were kept cozy through the cold night. We were super excited to wake up to a blanket of snow (albeit thin, it had snowed!) Statistics show a mean of 5.3 days of sunshine for the month of Ausgust and we were lucky enough to catch one of those days. We headed out on a hike up to Marion's Lookout; two adults and four kids, at about 10am. After, a short shuttle trip we found ourselves in the midst of the world's most accredited world heritage area.(It meets more criteria than any other area in the world.) Our trek began at Ronny Creek carpark. The children were enthralled by the thick layer of ice they were able to pick up from the puddles which lay around.

Not 20 steps into our hike and we find a family of wombats! The girls played fairies by Crater Falls and B2 found it hard work at this leg of the hike. But quickly pepped up when a light snow fell.
We continued on up to Wombat Hill, stoped for lunch and then B1 took off up to Marion's lookout - scaring his mother half to death. You will know why if you ever venture up to the lookout. We were delighted with the view once we made it and the children were delighted to find enough snow to make a 'snow castle?'

Game ON 2.0

We were very excited to hear that Launceston was holding the world premier to the Game On 2.0 exhibit, with over 130 games to play we were going to be in video game heaven!!We loved Band hero on wii, B2 loved the old fashion pinball machines. I was super excited when I found Atari's pitfall, bringing back memories of plaguing my neighbour Marissa with agonising hours of beggin, "can we pleeaassee play the Atatri?" I was also thrilled to find the original Donkey Kong complete with orange casing and ancient graphics, but oh what fun.

3LB go to the zoo

B1 was extremely excited that he was allowed to take the camera along on a recent class excursion to the zoo. He loved the Tassie Devils and was rapt that he was able to pat one.