G’day all,
We awoke after a night of rain and it was still pouring down. Good day to push hard with the schooling and knock off a couple of days in one. That’s what we did finishing up around lunch time. The kids have an amazing school room really, much better than four walls and 35 kids in a classroom. They get one on one tutoring for 2 hours a day and then the rest of the time to play, I wish I was a kid again!
So after school we decided to put on the rain jackets and head for the Barron Gorge and Devils Lookout in the day use area of the Boulders (just 5 mins away from the camp area).
Check out the write up on this page: http://bushmanbud.com/sight-seeing/barron-gorge-devils-lookout-at-the-boulders-babinda-qld/
What I like about walks with the kids is that we get time to connect and relate as a family. Whenever we are walking the kids (although sometime not happy about the walk) come alive and chat from start to finish. On the longer walks we do, I wonder how they manage to keep all the chatter up…sometimes chatting away for over 8 hours…awesome. When I think about the quality time we have all shared making cubby’s, walking, around a fire, playing UNO, singing at bedtime I realise how lucky we are to be travelling this great country of ours and are blessed to have spent more time with my kids than most parents would in a lifetime. Sad but harshly true. Perhaps we should all get one year out of life to experience this. Imagine the look term benefits a family would enjoy for the bonding experience! Maybe it should be like paid paternity leave Tony!!! You can only dream hey…and how fortunate we are to live that dream.
Bushman Bud…Enjoying Australia