In Albury with the Fox's

On a spare of the moment decision we packed the car and drove up to Albury with Darren, Mel, Kealy and Deegan Fox. We didn't book accommodation, we'd thought we'd wait and see when we got there. We left at some ridiculous hour in the morning so we would have reasonable enough time up there seeing we were only going overnight. We found accommodation, which was about 14k's out of Albury. It wasn't the best of accommodation but it wasn't that bad either. We'd been fluffing around making decisions and finding our way around that we'd lost an hour, so we thought we are here now, they have 2 cabins side by side, this will do us. At least they had a nice pool with a big waterslide, and a restaurant within walking distance.

We unpacked our car as quickly as we could so we could go and get some lunch, we were starving, breakfast had been hours and hours ago, or so it seemed. We headed off to Ettamogah Pub where we had lunch and the boys had a beer in THE PUB. We had a bit of a walk around, locked the kids up in the lock up etc. It was really quite boring, there is not much there anymore so it didn't take us long to have a look around, once we'd eaten lunch.

It was stinking hot so we went back to the tourist park and went for a swim in the pool. The boys were watching cricket and sinking a few beers in the cabin until I went and dragged them down to the pool to join us. The kids were having a ball. Bailey couldn't wait to get in the water and had jumped in straight after me and before I had the chance to come to the surface myself. Lucky he can swim a little. That evening we went out to dinner after a couple of pre dinner drinks in Darren and Mel's cabin. We ate our dinner outside on the balcony and later went in to watch the kareoke. The kids were having fun singing along while sitting on the floor amongst other kids watching.

The next morning we checked out of our cabin and very slowly made our way home. First stopping at the "Fun Park" in Albury. It had a so called pool, a waterslide, you could feed fish, ride a train etc. We were rather dissappointed in the value for money but the kids were having a ball. We were given fish food to throw into this big tank full of fish and when you threw it in the fish went on a frenzy, splashing water over the top of the tank and onto us. The kids thought this was funny. They then went on the waterslide and as you can see by the photos, they were loving that. It was their first time on a waterslide.

We went home through Beechworth, where we stopped for lunch. We went out to a waterhole where there would normally be a waterfall you could walk around but with the drought there was nothing to see. This really dissappointed Micayla. We stopped off at Healesville for dinner. This is where we said goodbye to Darren, Mel and the kids and headed for home. It's was great spending time away with Darren and Mel; we have a lot of fun with them, the kids get on great together and everyone has a relaxing, easygoing, enjoyable time together. Big thumbs up to holiday together again, maybe we'll get to do that trip to Port Douglas we keep talking about.

We then made our way to Adrian's parents place to pick up the dog and I think we got home around 1.00am after lots of chatting. The kids fell asleep in Oma and Opa's bed.