Family Day Out – Page 9 – Life is a Journey

Mothers Day visit to see alpacas

Posted on May 8, 2011May 9, 2011 by Libby Withnall

I was lucky enough to be treated to breakfast in bed this morning – french toast prepared by Amy.

I was given a great Mum Rulz hat from Christy.

a lovely picture from Amy

and everyone contributed to this collection of goodies. Spoiled aren’t I?

We decided to head to the Southern Highlands and visit an alpaca farm (seeing as it’s alpaca week!)

We learnt all about the fleece.

Met and cuddled Legend.

Got to see some Mum and bubs – quite fitting on Mothers Day.

They are so sweet.

Don’t they have the cutest faces?

And legs? And I never knew alpacas had soft feet – great for the not destroying the land.

Christy was very excited to get to walk Legend.

We also got to see some shearing. This looks cruel but the alpaca really didn’t seem to mind once it was strapped in position.

Poor thing looked rather sad losing it’s coat though. But they will put another coat on it as it’s going into Winter.

One more cute photo before we leave the farm. Love how he curls his front legs underneath his body.

On the way to Berrima we passed the valley of my future home/farm :-).

Doesn’t this look like a gorgeous place to live?

At Berrima we had a quick Mother’s Day photo shoot before heading to a nearby cafe for lunch.

We then had a little walk around the town…

admiring the turning leaves…

cute old buildings…

visiting the tea shop…

and of course, the lolly shop…

It was a lovely day. Such nice way to spend Mother’s Day.

Another day at Jamberoo

Posted on April 3, 2011October 10, 2026 by Libby Withnall

With another family pass to use at Jamberoo before the end of the Season, this was our last chance to make use of it. With me out of action (due to sore ribs) and Kevin having work to do, we decided that I’d take the girls and a few of their friends.

The weather started off cool and overcast but it ended up being a good day.

What did I do while they were off having fun? I relaxed, people watched, read….

played with my new camera…

and admired the beautiful flowers….

Family Fun Day at Jamberoo

Posted on March 13, 2011October 10, 2026 by Libby Withnall

Today it was time to have another family fun day AND we had a family pass to use for Jamberoo Action Park. It was VERY warm for Mid-March so the perfect day for some splashy fun.

I didn’t take the underwater housing today so no photos in the pools.

And just in case you thought I was cured of my Iditarod addiction… I took the i-pad so I could keep up to date :-).

We had our first experience of visiting the first aid station when Amy (walking beside me) just fell over.

And there were plenty of rides for Amy on the taboggon.

I don’t particularly like the tobaggons and Kevin’s back was really sore so I just took Christy for a ride up and back on the chairlift.

Beautiful views as you can see.

Amy beat us back down…

It was a fun, and relaxing day.

Girls day out

Posted on February 26, 2011October 10, 2026 by Libby Withnall

With Kevin overseas for a training course (he’ll be back tomorrow) I thought it might be fun to have a girls day out. It’s been ages since we had one and it always seems to be a good bonding time for Amy and Christy.

Instead of their usual roller skating lessons (both are now on blades) we went to the open session. I had blamed to skate but with my heel spurs acting up I didn’t want to aggravate them. Christy’s roller skates had gotten too small (she got them for Christmas 2009) and she wanted to move to roller blades.

After the session we headed to the movie theatre where someone got VERY excited when they saw this poster (bad photo – sorry)

We got our tickets, picked up some lunch at Subway, got coke icees for the girls and headed in to see our movie.

We didn’t actually see the 3D version. It was a really funny movie – like a lot of kids movies theses days it had plenty of jokes only the adults would get. It was so much better than I thought it would be.

After the movie we went to Target where I let the girls pick out a few items of clothing (and I got some new PJs). We also got some nail polishes from Australis. We then went to newsagents for large cardboard for Amy’s school project (and Christy got some in Smurf blue!) and Coles to get lollies to make up lolly bags for Amy’s party next week. Then home sweet home. And I was right about the bonding….they got right to work on making up those lolly bags together :-).