10 days for the price of 3!!

it's not often you can take 3 days annual leave and end up with 10 days off but that's what happened this year due to when easter and anzac day (remembrance day) landed in the calendar :)  we'd normally have gone on holidays with the kids however they wanted to stay home so shannon and i took the opportunity to head off to south australia and give the new car a chance to show us what it could do :)

we spent the easter weekend in mt gambier, camping near the blue lake.  the caravan park was mad busy with people and their pets which was expected - buddy was happy with all the dogs!!  we spent the four days checking out the blue lake, heading to robe, a picturesque seaside town and port nelson to check out a lighthouse which is a favourite subject of mine for photography :)  i also got to try out a jumping pillow - i understand why the kids love them :)  from there, we headed over to our next base, victor harbour.  we visited hahndorf, a charming town originally settled by the germans, took a number of coastal tour drives and visited some wineries including one with a pop-up old car show - we went in to taste some wines and came out to discover over 400 old american cars parked on the lawn!  it was a lovely holiday and buddy particularly ended up getting to spend time with his peeps!  he's actually a pretty good camper/car companion. 

other than the holiday, we've had one exciting change - we bought a new car - a station wagon with heaps of space compared to the echo and it's automatic so i can drive too!  we've otherwise had typical life events, dinners, birthday parties, etc...  i've started practicing yoga again which is great to de-stress and buddy celebrated his first birthday on 10 may!  we're both happy, healthy and having fun - i suppose there's not much else to ask for in life!

i hope everything's good in your lives too!

hugs,
s

p.s.  here's a picture of buddy on our driving holiday...  he almost looks like he's smiling :)