Merry Christmas to All

We are flying out tomorrow so a big heartfelt "MERRY CHRISTMAS" to everyone. Hope you have a relaxing peaceful Christmas and a rockin' New Year!! Love to everyone Jacqui, Al, Jarrah and Ned

Conversations with Ned

This is a conversation between Ned and Jar in the car.

Ned - "Jar I've got a girlfriend"

Jar - "No you don't"

Ned - "Yes I do"

Jar - "What's her name then?"

Ned - "Charlotte"

(we are both shocked at this stage cause we really didn't think he had one!!)

Jar - "What's she like?"

Ned - "She's pink.......light pink.........she's clean and sweet.........she's like a fairy"

Ohhh - melt my heart right now!!!!

Jar's Year 7 Graduation

Jar had her break up dinner on Wed night followed by her graduation ceremony on the Thurs night. It was a great night with lots of awards, speeches and a fantastic powerpoint presentation of the year.
All the girls looked beautiful and I think some of the boys wished they dressed up like this at the beginning of the year - not when they are saying goodbye!!
We celebrated Jar's last day of primary school ever with a bottle of champers!!

Camping at the Cape

We have just got back from a fantastic camping trip at to Cape Hillsborough National Park and we had a very relaxing time. We camped right on the beach and we ate, drank beer, swum, ate, drank beer..... You get the idea!! Al and I had hour long massages each and just enjoyed being in nature or more to the point nature came to us. We had turkeys and kookaburra's raiding our tent, a snake at the pool, kangaroos coming into our tent, a green turtle dug a nest in front of our tent and I caught a turkey on a piece of fishing line and reeled it in!!!!
The turkey incident was at 5am when Jar and I saw it hobbling and we could see it had fishing line caught round its feet. I trod on the line and started reeling it in and it went beserk. We ended up tackling it with a towel and it was fully growling (I seriously think I was channelling Steve Irwin at this stage) and flapping but in the chaos the line came undone and it bolted. It didn't even bother to fly it just ran!!!! Anyway when Al woke up and I went to tell him about all the excitement he let me know that he and everyone in the campground already knew!
The green turtles were beautiful, so serious and sad looking. We knew that there was a good chance we would see one so we all got dressed, packed water, camera, torches, told the kids that we would probably have to walk along way and be really patient and we walked out the front of our tent, down onto the beach and Jar said "theres a turtle" about 6 mtrs from our camp!!! She didn't end up laying but spent hours trying to dig her nest. The next morning the beach was covered in tracks from them coming up out of the sea.