It's been ages since I updated so I am sure I will miss something!
Well heaps has been happening Shaun has started a new job which he seems to like he is contracting now so the money is really good which will be nice for us to save as much as we can so we can keep on our trip :)
Summer has started day care she goes twice a week this is her second week! she loves it of course and only on her first day did she cry for her mummy! as we all know she's such as social little butterfly and of course the carers there love her cause she turns her charm on them :) last week she went Thursday and Friday and then spent most of Saturday and Sunday saying she wanted to go to school!! We originally only had her booked in for one day but the director talked us into two days as she thought summer would benefit more with two days than one so we put her in for two and so far so good! I think it will be really good for her to have some time away from me and also for me to have a break and spend some one on one time with the new baby when it arrives.
On summers second day of care Shaun and I had the day to ourselves and went to the cinema and then down to the Marina and had a drink it was lovely and the first time we have had anytime on our own since we left Tassie
The new baby is due and we thought things were happening last week but all stopped and we are still waiting! the first due date they gave me is today (27th Jan) but the date they are going by is the 7th Feb so still another week and a bit away! although I do feel this baby will be here by then but who knows I could be wrong!! I am going well but ready for this baby to come the heat kills me most days and i try to spend as much time in the air con as possible and Summer and I swim pretty much every day which is always nice. I think it's the humidity that's the killer the temps are usually mid 30's but it's so sticky and muggy it's awful such a different heat to home. This pregnancy has been so different to Summer with Summer I had lots of fluid and swelling and I have had none this time. Last time I couldn't even get my rings on at 20 weeks and this time I am still wearing them now you would think I would have swelling in the heat but luckily i have had none! I have also been craving fruit! I can't get enough of the fruit up here's it's just beautiful cherries have been my vice and I am buying a bag every second day! I have also been craving rasberries but you can't get them up here! although I did see a tiny punnet in the supermarket last week but they were $8 i think for a tiny punnet so i had to resort to frozen ones! we really missed having rasberries over christmas..
I am really not sure what we are having this time i have thought girl for ages but everyone keeps telling me a boy! even strangers in the supermarket and this pregnancy is totally different so we will see. I am carrying different to - looking back on the photos from when I was pregnant with Summer I look heaps better this time!!
We have rented a unit (we move in next week) it's at a resort here that has closed down and the units have been sold off. It has a pool, gym and is right on the beach it's furnished and is just a small one which will be big enough for the four of us for three months while we decide what to do i.e. settle here for a bit or keep going on our trip we really want to keep going and hopefully we will it will just depend how this baby is! if it's as good as Summer then we will definately keep going we know it can be done we met some people who are doing it so there's no reason why we can't do it to! I do have days where I want to come home but I know if we were to come home now we would regret it as we will never go again so at this stage we won't be coming home. The only downside is that it's a bit further out than we wanted
My mum and dad arrive on the 3rd February and we can't wait to see them! hopefully the baby will be here by then...
Lots of love to everyone at home hope that you are all well we will let you all know when this baby decides to make it's appearance...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Townsville
We headed to Townsville just after Christmas for a few days. We loved townsville and I would have much preferred to settle there for a period of time than Mackay but we have friends here so that makes it better :)
We weren't going to take the van but decided to and we stayed at a caravan park called Rowes Bay which was just around from the strand and straight across the road from the beach
We only had a few days so we didn't get to do half the things that we wanted but will definately go back again soon and hopefully have a week or more up there.
We loved the strand which is right along the waterfront and has a water park, play ground, basketball court, a rock pool which you can swim in has the water pumped in from the beach Cold Rock Ice Cream haha!! and various other things it was just beautiful and everytime we went past so many people playing, swimming, having bbq's etc we loved it - we both said that something like that would be perfect along victoria parade in Devonport but of course that would never happen!!
One night we went past at around 8pm and no lie we think there would have been a couple of hundred people along there having bbq's, walking, running etc was really lovely
Summer loved the water park, we also went swimming at the rock pool which is man made and has the water pumped in straight from the beach minus the sand, seaweed and stingers. I don't really like swimming in the bach but did enjoy the rock pool
We had planned on going to the billabong sanctuary which has crocodiles etc on the way home which is a little bit out of townsville but it started raining on the night before we left and it did not stop all night and the next morning so it was just to wet so we missed out on that which was very disappointing but we will definately do it next time.
We also didn't get time to do the aquariam there either so lots of things to do but we just ran out of time. They also have better shopping up there! The weather there is a bit hotter than here but I think there is more to do up there than here.
Shaun ran into someone he knew!! of all places he's in a local milkbar and sees a bloke he knows who used to live in Devonport! they live just around from where we were staying! such a small
world we knew they lived there but never imagined running into them!
On our last night we went out for a meal and decided to go to a steak house in town - it was really lovely fairly fancy and was expensive of course we didn't look at the menu before we went in! but it was over $35 for a steak! Shaun had the steak and of course said the steak was crap! We have not had decent steak since we left Tassie it's always tough and dry! you should see the cows up here! they make me laugh everytime we see some they are skinny things with a big hump on their backs no wonder it tastes like crap! definately not like the steak we have back home!
here's a few pics from Townsville
Summer @ the rock pool
The rock pool
Summer at the waterpark
We weren't going to take the van but decided to and we stayed at a caravan park called Rowes Bay which was just around from the strand and straight across the road from the beach
We only had a few days so we didn't get to do half the things that we wanted but will definately go back again soon and hopefully have a week or more up there.
We loved the strand which is right along the waterfront and has a water park, play ground, basketball court, a rock pool which you can swim in has the water pumped in from the beach Cold Rock Ice Cream haha!! and various other things it was just beautiful and everytime we went past so many people playing, swimming, having bbq's etc we loved it - we both said that something like that would be perfect along victoria parade in Devonport but of course that would never happen!!
One night we went past at around 8pm and no lie we think there would have been a couple of hundred people along there having bbq's, walking, running etc was really lovely
Summer loved the water park, we also went swimming at the rock pool which is man made and has the water pumped in straight from the beach minus the sand, seaweed and stingers. I don't really like swimming in the bach but did enjoy the rock pool
We had planned on going to the billabong sanctuary which has crocodiles etc on the way home which is a little bit out of townsville but it started raining on the night before we left and it did not stop all night and the next morning so it was just to wet so we missed out on that which was very disappointing but we will definately do it next time.
We also didn't get time to do the aquariam there either so lots of things to do but we just ran out of time. They also have better shopping up there! The weather there is a bit hotter than here but I think there is more to do up there than here.
Shaun ran into someone he knew!! of all places he's in a local milkbar and sees a bloke he knows who used to live in Devonport! they live just around from where we were staying! such a small
world we knew they lived there but never imagined running into them!
On our last night we went out for a meal and decided to go to a steak house in town - it was really lovely fairly fancy and was expensive of course we didn't look at the menu before we went in! but it was over $35 for a steak! Shaun had the steak and of course said the steak was crap! We have not had decent steak since we left Tassie it's always tough and dry! you should see the cows up here! they make me laugh everytime we see some they are skinny things with a big hump on their backs no wonder it tastes like crap! definately not like the steak we have back home!
here's a few pics from Townsville
Summer @ the rock pool
The rock pool
Summer at the waterpark
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