This weekend was the Clare Valley Half Marathon so we decided to stay close to home and prepare for our week off altogether next week in Kangaroo Island. Layla had a play-date with Olivia for the day on Friday. That evening Kate and Tony dropped Layla off and stayed around for a few drinks and to let the kids play. They played hard at hide and seek and chicken racing. On Saturday we decided to make Lefsa in preparation for our next two weeks worth of camping b...

What a crazy weekend! The forecast was calling for 28 and 31 on Saturday and Sunday respectively, so we decided to load up the car on Thursday night while Layla was at her year 3/4 "Big Night Out" at school so we could head out camping. After a long and tiring day of work for both Darren and Leanne at the High School we decided to hold off on leaving until Saturday morning so we could have a night to get organize and Leanne could get her 10-page paper started. ...

On Friday I took the day off of school (which was an international incident involving 2 teacher's unions) and we headed into Adelaide to pick up Zack Fleming and Emily Leggette who have been travelling around Australia for the past 3 weeks and were in need of a real bed in a real home and some real food...so we took them camping! We headed first to Gorge Wildlife Park (again) to see the wallabies, kangaroos, and of course the koalas. It was a lot of fun and we ...

This was our first weekend camping in Australia! We left Clare at about 8:30 on Saturday morning as it was the Adelaide Cup Long Weekend. We met up with Rachelle, Darren, Milly, and Claudius in Ardrossan on our way where we had a coffee and a treat and then got some groceries, beverages, and were on our way south down the Yorke Peninsula toward Edithburgh. We followed a dirt road south of Edithburgh and found a small camp spot right on the ocean where we set up...

This weekend was very exciting for all of us! On Friday Layla stayed with Darren, Rachelle, Claudius, and Milly and we picked her up and had a bbq together. We decided that Saturday would be a good day to go squid and crab fishing in Port Broughton. We left our house in Clare at 9:00 and got to Port Broughton at 10:00. After a smooth and fast ride out of the bay we dropped anchor and started casting our lines for squid and dropping the net for crab. After getti...