Day 52 - Goodbye to the Addison clan

Our last few days have been pretty quite since the Brennocks and the SJC girls have been at school.  We haven't been able to go out to Willow Park for fear of interrupting their schooling and homework.  So this morning started off no differently than the last few.  We saw the girls off to school, had breakfast and then started to discuss ways to fill in our morning.  After the lengthy, and somewhat unproductive discussion, we sat down to an episode of Fringe when we got the call from Auntie Deb about her car not working.  The car had been playing up for the last couple of days and it finally decided to die.  We believed it to be the battery but as we were unsure, we took it to the Holden workshop.  They promptly told us that it was the battery and that they couldn't help us as they had no batteries in stock.  Being told to try another place, we found a battery specialist who had batteries in sock but as they were in a meeting, they couldn't help us for the next little while. T.I.A.

Once we had finally managed to get the car fixed, we did a little shopping in town and waited to pick up the girls from school.  They finished at 1 o'clock which allowed us to leaving for Willow Park by just after 2 o'clock.  

Today was the first day of school out at Willow Park.  Some of the girls had homework to do which meant that they were busy working away to get it done.  It was also they day that the 'Birthday Granny' came out to give the kids, whose birthday it is in January, their presents.  There were about 8 girls who have their birthday this month and each girl got some clothes and a collection of stationary and toys.  It was a great afternoon to hang out with the girls.

Coming back into town we had a BBQ at the Addison's to say goodbye to them as they leave early tomorrow morning.  There were many laughs from the last few weeks and even a vague plan to be back here in a few years time for the full day rafting.

It's scary how fast our trip is beginning to wrap up.  I personally am not looking forward to our last day which, judging by how quickly times goes here, will be in only a couple of days.

Thanks for reading,

Alex