Back with the T@Bernack - The first bit.

Wow, what a week and thankfully made it home, with everyone and everything still in one piece. No traffic fines, no bad misshaps, just all good stuff.

How adventurous am I? Friday I packed everything up, it was flogging down with rain so I had to park the rear end of the car into our jammed up carport along side of the house to get everything in the boot without getting saturated. Me and the kids ended up setting off for Gladstone at about 2.30pm. We didn't get too far before we had to stop for Anakin's potty time.
Yep, great thinking packing that potty. And then a bit further up the road was an hour and a quarter delay where a semi and the Tilt Train had collided the previous day. Traffic was banked up majororly, every now and again we had to jump in the car and buckle up and drive another 200 meters, then stop, pile out onto the side of the road and chat with fellow motorists before doing that all again about 5 times before we actually reached the detour and could continue on. It was the longest trip just to reach Townsville on dark and I had an entire nights worth of driving ahead of me! At Townsville we raced into Woolies to get some supplies - munchies to supplement the big batch of energy slice I had made, batteries for the torch, sticky pads for Izzy's to draw flick cartoons, chocolate to keep me awake.. I let Izzy join me in a cappacino for the first time ever on the way out and now he thinks he's a conisseour, with preferences for mild roasted and orange mocha's.. We'd gone through the drive through at Macca's for those and get this - they made us wait in the carpark!! God we were so paranoid about hold-ups by then and that extra few minutes waiting nearly killed us! We were banging on the side of the car in desperation and annoyance! They weren't even worth it coz they gave us stupid Extra - some artificial alzaimers inducing sweetener crap instead of plain bloody sugar!!
But we snapped a whole tube full of glow sticks to make us feel better and it did. Watching Izzy trying to take a discreet pee on the side of the road with about 15 glow sticks hanging around his neck and wrists was pretty funny.

We got a little bit lost driving through Ayr and when we entered back onto the Bruce Highway we were driving right behind Mum!!! Her and Nick and the kids where driving together, heading to Gladstone for the family reunion too, but we all left home at completely different times! Wild. We drove the convoy onto Serena were they slept at a rest area till daylight and I just kept on driving.. The coffee and V drink didn't help so much as chewing off all my fingernails... I stopped a few times to feed Bubby back to sleep, but when I couldn't get to sleep in under 15 minutes I just pulled out and kept on keeping on... Had a big brekkie in Rockhampton and finally reached Gladdie at about 8.30am. Thank the Lord.

I didn't catch up on any sleep either as the next two days were spent celebrating Mump's 90th and catching up with all the relies from near and far and wide.