Christmas Camping 2011

Well our family did something a little different this year and planned a little trip away camping. We ventured on a trip to Bicheno on Friday evening and set up camp with the Crossin family. We were pretty lucky as the Crossin's had arrived early and set up there tent and our tent which was great otherwise it may have been a very late night!
On Christmas eve we enjoyed a little walk to look at the local shops and also a few of the local sights. William enjoyed a walk to the blow hole and then a walk to the playground with Amelia and Dad where they also ventured out on the beach and ended up paddling.

Christmas day was all about waking early, and then having to wake the kids and we did all the presents. It was really funny as the night before we had the kids set up a treat for Santa in the back of the van so the next morning the kids got a shock to see the van full of gifts.

We drove to Hobart for Christmas with family we started off lunch at my Mum's which was lovely as the three boys got on really well playing with their DS games and then Will's new scooter from Santa. It was also lovely to catch up with my sister who had her little baby on the 14th and I hadn't met as yet. Was lovely having so many cuddles!
In the afternoon we visited Ryan's family and stayed there a short while before we ventured back to the camp site, which made the day extremely long! We all slept well Christmas night I think it may have been a mix of long driving and way too much good Christmas food!

Boxing day William was excited to use his Christmas present he got from Adam and Abby which was a fishing line. Will was keen for the first 5 minutes and then he ditched the rod and was keen to ride his scooter. We had a few lines in and it was fun watching the boys catch the fish, Ryan only managed to catch little baby ones which had to go back in where as Rob caught one that was apparently huge! Amelia even caught a little fry! Another trip to the park then we ventured back for a BBQ with fish caught and some sausages. We took a drive to Aspen park and even though we did not go on the walk we thought we may do it some other time. That night when the kiddies had gone to bed some of us ventured up to the blow hole and to see the little penguins come in. We managed to see three come in and waddle up to the safety of the bushes for them to rest for the night. Mind you we got there a whole hour before hand and got eaten alive by mozzies so when we saw the three we thought that was enough and then walked back to the tent to recoup from the mozzie invasions!

On the Tuesday we packed our stuff and drove up through Elephant Pass and stopped for some pancakes at a cute little place. We then continues our trek home with a stop at St Marys to look at a place where a guy has set up his collections on many things from cars to computers to you name it!

After a busy few days we were excited to get back to our own beds, down side to camping is that we had so much washing and airing to do of our clothes and camping stuff, but we would do it all again as it was fun!