Sunday, September 10, 2006

Big Day Out for a Little Buddy!

What a big day we had yesterday! It was election day here in Qld for the State Government - Dad was on the campaign committee for our local Liberal candidate and I had to go and 'mind' the booth/decorations at one of the local polling stations for an hour before voting opened. Then we had Paul arrive to clean the carpets ready to have the onslaught of open for inspections starting next weekend. While that was happening I took Hayden around to Mum and Dad's - my 2nd Cousin from the UK (Pam) arrived on Friday night so we thought we'd catch up with her. Pam, Mum and I took Hayden and Hershy for a walk to the beach, Hersh was fetching the stick and then Hayden decided it was a pretty good way to carry the stick! He had a great time putting his toes in the water and then laughing as the water sucked past his legs on its way back to join the ocean. He even managed to fall in a couple of times, after the initial fright (and I'm sure the shock of the cool water) he thought that was pretty funny too. After playing down there for about half an hour we walked back to Mum & Dad's, I put Hayden straight down to sleep, all that walking he was exhasted!

After we'd had lunch and Hayden woke up we took Pam up to Point Cartwright to see the view and then up to Perigian Springs where Erin was doing a demo jump into the Arts and Entertainment festival at a school up there. We were there about an hour before the jump so we looked around and Hayden had a turn on the 'Toy Story' jumping castle which he loved, then Mum found Dorothy the Dinosaur singing on stage, Hayden was in heaven! Then Daddy came out of the plane and when they'd all landed Hayden ran out into the middle of the oval to get him, it was very cute! We walked back to the fair and they were handing out cake, wow - big treat, and then it was time to get back in the car and come home - it was after 6pm already!

It was a beautiful day and great to spend almost all of it outdoors.

1 comment:

Feliss said...

bring on spring & summer... i can't wait for the warmer weather to arrive! the kids just love being outside don't they.