We are me; Mummy, otherwise known as Michelle, Big chickpea; Daddy, otherwise known as Tristan, Medium chickpea; Rowan and Baby chickpea Reuben. This blog was started as I thought I was starting to loose track of all the amazing day to day things my children learn and how we grow as a family. It is also here to keep family and friends up to date with our adventure of moving our life from the UK to Australia.



Monday, 3 October 2011

Birthdays, Caravans, Caves, Trees and Safari

Well that about sums up September!  In the beginning of the month we went away in a friends caravan for a week to Wiltshire.  It was Rowans 5th birthday whilst we were away, we visited Longleat Safari Park and went to a woodland show.

We celebrated Rowans birthday before we went away with family and his best friend with a BBQ in our garden and his proper cake!

First day in the caravan, it was so nice to be in a caravan, especially as the weather was very rubbish!

Our camp

Note to self: I must stop pulling cross eyed faces in photos!

Wookey Hole Caves.  The boys loved the caves and the story of the witch, although they were more impressed by the lights!



Cavewoman Tristan!

Caveboy Rowan


Reuben on his favourite dinosaur


At Wookey Hole, they had an old school amusement arcade. In which they had this amazing mirror maze, it was really so good, we went in it quite a few times.  Reuben did the classic running straight bang into a mirror!




Wells Cathedral

Longleat Safari Park



This ickle baba zebra was only 4 days old



These pesky monkeys ate our wiper squirter jet nozzle thingimies!







Tris was just as excited by this beefsteak fungus as he was the tigers whose encloser it was in!








Rowans birthday table all ready for the birthday boy


The last photo of 4 year old Rowan

Birthday boy


Remote control monster truck bought much fun!

The woodland show. 


This machine costs £250,000!  And my boys were sat in it with very muddy boots on!



The white horse

Reuben looked out of his window and said he could see the horse.  then got out of the car and suddenly realised what we were talking about, he was talking about the real horses in the field!

Remote control monster truck fun









Our nightly campfire was lovley



Happy birthday to Rowan



Catching up with old friends

We had such a lovely week away, Tristan works so hard when we are at home, that it sometimes feels like we don't ever get much time to spend as a family.  The whole week away was just wonderful.  The weather was a bit rotten for most of the time, but we all had so much fun.  It has been named the 'Whoa!' holiday as everything we did bought cries of 'Whoa!' from everyone!

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