What a Weekend!

As mentioned in my last post we headed off to Esk approx. 2hrs from home for the Australia Day long weekend.

Oh my goodness, did it rain on the Friday night, thought the van was going to swim away, and on Saturday morning it looked it - there was lots of water under the van (bother, forgot to take a photo) and it was fine. Oh was it fine! It was hot and steamy with humidity up around the 80% mark.

After a lazy breakfast we decided to head up the Esk-Hampton road which is quite windy and head for Crows Nest for morning tea. It was a very sorry sight on the way up the range with all the burnt out areas and trees from the fires earlier in this latest fire season.

It felt so eerie driving up through here, and we saw warning signs for trees that could possibly fall.

Even crossed over the top of the Great Dividing Range on our way to Crows Nest.

However when we arrived in Crows Nest, had a wander around the lovely little township and wouldn't you know it - found a couple of arts & crafts shops. One appeared to be like a co-op for local people to sell their wares, and there were some absolutely beautiful items for sale. The other was a dinky little shop that had some haby supplies as well as other items - I just love these places, you never know what you may pick up, oh course it is always something you desperately need!!

Now all that was very thirsty and hungry work, so it was time to check out the local bakery. We arrived there around 10.45am and goodness me, almost sold out of all the yummy goodies, however we managed to get 2 lovely fresh cream buns - haven't had one of these in ..... don't know how long, and oh my goodness, weren't they just delicious.

Pete & I sat there on the high stools looking out the window having our coffee and giggling away with the jam and cream squishing out the sides of the buns. We were like two kids in a bakery - guess what ...... we were!!

After filling ourselves, we decided to jump in the car and head down to Highfields which is towards Toowoomba. We passed through Cabalah where there is a German Cuckoo Clock place, but as we had called in there on a previous trip, we did not stop. We also passed the Borneo Barracks Golf Club at Cabalah where I (attempted) to learn golf when we lived at Oakey (west of Toowoomba back in the mid 90's. Ah, now there are some memories.

I particularly wanted to check out Highfields as this is where I shall be heading for a Girls Stitch In hosted by The Quilters Angel in March - am quite looking forward to it - and I wanted to just check out where I had to go.


Had lunch at Highfields before we started to head back down the Esk-Hampton road before we got too much rain which was starting to fall again.

Made it back and began to prepare dinner with a karaoke guy doing his thing in the camp kitchen leading up to Australia Day the next day.

Yesterday, Australia Day was a quiet day for us with plenty of time to reflect on our time together - you see it was our 24th wedding anniversary (both been married before) and it was lovely to just sit out under the awning with my lovely bunting dripping wet - but who cares, and doing some stitching whilst it rained. No one, but no one was complaining of the rain, it was just great.

Now I don't want to have you laugh at us, however for dinner last night we had hamburgers, and there is a simple story behind us having hamburgers for dinner. You see, because it was a public holiday, nothing much was open on our wedding night except this little take away shop up at Maleny where we were to stay. So it was hamburgers, and every year since that is what we have for dinner - just a bit of fun I guess, but it's special to us, and of course they are all the more special when Pete makes them too.

After a reasonably leisurely breakfast this morning, it was time to join everyone else (or mostly everyone else it seemed) in the park packing up and heading off. It was almost a traffic jam to get out of the caravan park, but it was a lovely stay albeit short time wise, but certainly most enjoyable.

Time now to get in and begin to put things away and other stuff into the laundry ready for a big washing day tomorrow.

'Til next time, take care ....

June