Everyone had a bit of a lie in after a late night of movie watching and after we eventually finished the breakfast marathon we headed to the camp kitchen for a morning of schoolwork. Nick had to leave around 11am to get new tyres fitted on the car, as the current ones are looking a little bald! He took Katharine with him and continued doing work with her while they were waiting. I spent a little bit longer working with the other three but it was too nice...

Woken up early by the boys who were very excited, as it was their 7th birthday. They woke the girls up and then shot in to the annex to find their presents. They didn't seem to care that they were all wrapped in newspaper or mind our homemade cards!! They loved their scooters from Granny Peg and Granddad Chris and their sleeping bags from Grandma and Poppy Jon. They also got a new outfit, a dvd and a footie and soccer ball - happy chappies!! Nick made ever...

Slept really well and woke up around 7am as Nick went off for a walk. The kids slept on until 8am so I read in bed until Nick came back - what a treat! We had breakfast and spent the morning over at the camp kitchen doing schoolwork. They have a great camp kitchen here with a large room full of tables, a separate kitchen and toilets so no one had any excuse to leave the building! After lunch we headed off into Geelong to explore. We stopped off at a campin...

Nick woke up early at 7am and there was a lovely red sky shining through the window. He stepped outside for a walk and it instantly began to rain so instead he started to unpack the top of the car. Once shops had begun to open he went off into town to buy shower parts, refill gas bottles and order new tyres for the car, as ours are bald! I was supposed to do schoolwork but couldn't face it today so instead spent most of the morning producing endless plates of ...

We got woken around 8am this morning, as campers all over the place were packing up and heading home. It took us a while to get out of bed and then we too packed up and were on the road by 10am. Johanna Beach has been a great free camp but I'm definitely feeling the need to move on. The kids have completely forgotten about 'stranger danger' and some of the long termers here have made my alarm bells ring! The plan was to spend the next two nights in Lorne a...