MACKAY

We arrived in Mackay last Thursday and are staying at The Andergrove Caravan Park. It's a lovely big park with lots of room for our bus but unfortunately they may not be able to take us long term. We are having problems finding anyone who can fit us in, first of all, and even less who can also keep us long term. I guess they can squeeze 2 vans into the space we take up and charge them more to be there short term, so it all comes down to the money. What a surprise! We went for a drive yesterday and found that our options are very limited, so we will keep our fingers crossed and keep looking and who knows what might turn up.

Haven't had a chance to do much sight seeing yet, just getting settled in. Yesterday I took the kids to the shopping centre to spend their pocket money. It's the first time they have been paid since we became unemployed so they were happy little shoppers! Chris went fishing at the harbour on Sunday but came home empty handed. He had a good bite I hear, but alas, no food for the family! The kids have been for a dip in the pool a couple of times here at the caravan park but I haven't been game as yet. The water is freezing and the kids go blue after half an hour or so, so someone has to be on hand to revive them! The weather has been in the mid-20's most days but it's too cool for me. Brrrrr!
Will and Laura taking the plunge!

Saturday the kids went to play softball. There's a softball field right next to the van park and Chris went over for a look on Tuesday night to watch them training. They were looking for new players and we thought it might be a good way for the kids to make some friends so we joined them up. The only problem will be if Chris is working weekends I won't have a car to get them to the game but one of the ladies said she can pick us up if I need it, so that's good. They had lots of fun and although they were quite shy at the start they soon got the hang of it and showed their style!! They wanted Chris to play in the mens team, but although he was extremely tempted he doesn't want to get an injury. That's all we need, Chris out of work injured, arghhh!

This week Chris is off doing the UD driving course he has to do before starting work in a fortnight. We (the kids and I) are catching up with school stuff before we get our first visitor later in the week. Lynne is coming on Thursday and we have been marking the days off on the calender until she arrives. The kids are hardly excited at all!!!!!!!! I don't expect much work to get done on Friday so we will do a little extra over the next few days. Today they made a butterfly kite and have just been out to test it. It's pretty windy but perhaps there were some issues with the aerodynamics because it just didn't want to stay up in the air! Now we are doing some sums using the dominos so I had better go supervise. See you next time...