Another Easter in Moama

We headed off for Moama on the Thursday afternoon before Good Friday. We arrived around 6pm about the same time as Scott and Tania and the boys and Marty and Julie came much later around midnight.

The boat didn't go in the water on the Friday. We all just chilled, sitting around the campsite relaxing. No one could be bothered going in the water, except the kids of course. We put the boat in the water on Saturday and the kids had a few skies and that was about it. Still the adults couldn't be bothered getting wet. We then took the kids out to Five Mile boat ramp where there is some good bushland for the kids to ride their bikes around.

Adrian taking Bailey for a ride. Every time Bailey gets on the bike the cap has to go backwards and he turns it straight back around when he gets off.

Micayla getting ready to go off for her ride.


Micayla and Mitchell riding up a hill

Micayla riding through the bush


The girls chilling while the kids ride.

Marty was popping Mono's on the kids bike with Sarah on it with him. He ended up flipping the bike and doing a little bit of damage. Luckily Sarah was safe, a little shaken but otherwise OK. Marty however, came off a little second best. A few grazes later and a blown out pair of tracksuit pants. I guess they'll become rags now. It was very funny actually, once we knew they were OK of course. It was me last time, Marty this time, who will be next. Must be the Graham's turn. It will probably be Mitchell.


The kids were eagerly waiting for Easter Bunny to come to them, but before that happened, Scott set the kids up on front of the lap top for a movie night. They all sat sort of cinema style in their camp chairs with their bowls of chips. It was hard to take a photo in the dark and you can't see the lap top but it is there.

The next day Easter Bunny had been. Micayla and Bailey woke up to their chocolate sitting on the kitchen table, but they also get a little present, rather than having too many eggs.
The Easter Bunny always brings them a chocolate Bunny and Micayla got a Bindeez set. It's little beads she makes a picture with and then sprays it with water and all the beads stick together. It's what she always wanted.




Bailey was very excited to receive his bunny and he just loves Lightening McQueen, especially Mater.


The Easter Bunny also leaves eggs all over the campsite for all the kids to share an Easter Egg hunt. I helped Bailey to find his eggs as he is still learning all about it. He usually walks right over the top of the eggs, he just doesn't see them. I pointed some out to Bailey and as he went to get them, Nathan or Mitchell would dive on them and take them and then Bailey would end up in tears. He said through his tears "I can't get them cause I can't race enough." Poor darling! Mitchell did end up giving Bailey some of his eggs. Bailey did see the two sitting on the Boat trailer, which he managed to get all to himself. He was happy then and he tells everyone how he found his eggs on the boat trailer. After everyone was being generous giving up some of their eggs for him, Bailey actually ended up with the most eggs.

With it being Sunday and we were going home the next day, the adults decided they better gets off their lazy butts and have a ski. After all, it wouldn't be until Cup Weekend that we could ski again.

It's not one of the better shots ever taken, but this is Adrian skiing.


This goes to show that I actually do come out from behind the camera. Tania got a shot of me out having a ski. I don't create as much spray as Adrian, but hey, he's 10 times a better skier than me.



Here is Scott, jumping the wake on the kneeboard. When Mitchell saw his dad do this, he wanted to get straight out there and try it himself. This is typical of Mitchell. I think he thought it looked easier than it was cause he didn't try it.

When Mitchell did have a kneeboard, he fell off right in the path of a houseboat. All the river rules went out the window as Scott drove the boat around the houseboat and stopped in front of it. Scott had to yell out to the people driving the boat to pull up the houseboat. I don't think they saw Mitchell in the water. As this was happening, I've jumped into the water and swam Mitchell out of the path of the houseboat. Luckily I was already in my bikinis, and I didn't even feel how cold the water was, cause all I could think about was helping Mitchell. The water though, was literally breathtakingly cold. I couldn't breath when I got in the water for a ski and I was all suited up. So you could imagine how cold I would've felt in my bikinis, had I been concerned enough to feel the cold. Mitchell was very brave though. He knew he was in danger from the house boat but he wasn't scared. He was very calm. I guess he knew his dad wouldn't let anything happen to him, and me for that matter too.

The last night before going home the kids cooked Marshmallows in the fire, as they had all done the other nights too, but this night was different. Micayla's marshmallow caught on fire and she waved it around in the air to put the flames out, but the Marshmallow fell off the stick and dropped onto her foot and burnt her foot. It was really painful for her so we sat down with some ice on her foot for a really long time. Then applied a bit of first aid and she was happy enough again and went off to bed. Surprisingly she went straight off to sleep and heard no more of it the next day, not even any mark of the burn. I guess next time she'll be more careful.