Category: Family Day Out

It’s been 10 years since I been to the Bowral Tulip Festival, and Christy and Kevin have never been. So today was the day. But before we move along here’s a photo of Amy the last time she was here – at just 18 months.

The only downside to going on a Sunday was that it was quite busy and somewhat hard to take photos without anyone else in them. But it was a beautiful sunny day – a great day for a family day out.

After checking out all the tulips and other flowers (close up photos to follow in another post) we watched some highland dancing. And Amy even joined in.

Then it was time to view some of the market stalls and get some lunch.

We then moved on to Moridart Gardens. These are private gardens that are only opened for 2 months a year. It was lovely to wonder around and check out all the beautiful flowers and plants. It’s not really Kev’s thing but he was a good sport and the girls and I really enjoyed it.

It was my first outing with the epiphany bag and it was great.

As you can see I’m not the only photographer in the family…

Lastly we stopped at a nursery and bought some more plants for the back yard. The girls both got a cactus.

More tulip and flower photos to come later. For now we’re off to dinner with friends.

Since we were already in Sydney for the Organic Expo we decided to use some vochures Amy had recieved for her birthday to visit Luna Park. This was THE theme park when Kevin and I were teenagers. It has been closed down and reopened a number of times, reopening in 2004. But I don’t think I’ve been since I was about 15.

With the car parked at Darling Harbour we decided to get a water taxi (a first for us) over to Luna Park.

As you can see it was a perfect day for a trip on the harbour.

Luna Park is to the left hand (or North) of the Harbour Bridge (which Kevin & I will be climbing in just 2 weeks :-), so it’s in a magic location.

It’s free to walk around but you have to pay to go on the rides. The girls already had tickets but it was $40 each for Kevin and I. I only went on two rides so did NOT get my money’s worth. You can buy single tickets ($10 each). First up was Coney Island which was exactly as I remembered.

Gotta love the funny mirrors :-).

I took a lot more video than photos (to show the rides in action) and put together a video but am having trouble uploading it to YouTube.

Just love this photo of Amy on the wild mouse :-).

Sydney Harbour really is a magical place. We are so lucky to live close-by and even luckier that we don’t have to deal with traffic everyday :-).

 

When I woke up this morning I was instructed to stay in bed. I did but requested my laptop.

A short while later I was presented with tea and freshly made cookies….

What a great way to start the day. I was also given a fabulous cap from Amy (which I wore today) and this lovely chalkboard heart from Christy.

Amy made breakfast….

And around 9am we headed off to Belgenny Farm. We had a fabulous day and I had lots of fun taking photos with the DSLR.

There was sheep shearing…

cow milking…

And horse demonstrations…

and working dogs…

Rides..

and most importantly pony rides…

and lots and lots of photos ops.

It’s been awhile since we had a family fun day and with the kids behaviour being as bad as it’s been we thought it might help if we spent more time together. Since the weather has been so warm we decided to go the Jamberoo Action Park using the tickets Christy got for her birthday (last Sept). It was a great day for it – nice and warm, the water the perfect temperature and the crowds pretty low.

The girls and Kevin had some fun with blue zinc.

I didn’t take a lot of photos today but I did catch Christy and Kevin trying to have a snooze…

while I read and relaxed…