It's 36 degrees today.

Hi all,

Kelly tells me I have to punctuate more, but I was away from school that day we learnt how to do that. We are still at Berry Springs enjoying ourselves, meeting all new people, lots of happy hours. We said goodbye to our new friends Lil and Ian but have kept in contact with them by phone already, Rob and Jo have moved on also but insist when we are in SA we have to look them up, on their last night they had a baked dinner and asked us to join them, it was beautiful. Before Lil left we had a day at Casuarina shopping, it was so much fun, we left at 9am and got back at 5pm. Over the last 2 weeks we have met Tom, Sharon, Pete and Jane they also have dogs Jinnie and Fred both Jack Russells and Olly loves playing with them, we are actually dog sitting Fred today. Jinnie taught Olly how to fetch balls, a game he couldn’t quite get with us. Poor Olly has been in the vet this week, he had an upset belly and was on antibiotics for 1 week and all cured now, then it was dog dental month, something we should have had done in Sydney, so we thought Olly needs this done so booked him in and he had 4 bottom teeth taken out as well as a polish and clean, don’t worry Kel he still looks beautiful.

Well what have we been doing, we went to the Litchfield rodeo always a great night, lots of cowboys drunk and sober, huge massive bulls that they want to ride, crazy people, only 1 needed ambulance attention. We sold the generator for what we paid for it, we actually could have sold it 3 times, so that’s good. SOK arrived and set up camp next to us, he was here for 2 weeks and moved yesterday closer to Darwin so he can look for work.

The caravan park put on happy hour as the Darwin Cup was on and we went into a sweep and Chris got first so that turned into a real happy hour. We have had 2 flat tyres in a week, 1 was a slow leak a nail in it, we discovered it on Friday arvo and took it to the tyre place at Humpty Doo, only to find out, they were closed and it was a long weekend on the Monday so couldn’t get it fixed until Tuesday, that was ok, it just meant we couldn’t drive far, not without a spare. So on Wednesday we thought we would leave Olly with SOK and drive to Litchfield, but 10 minutes into our drive along a dirt road we heard pop so stopped the car and I said to Chris what is that hissing sound sure enough we had another flat, a big chunk of tyre missing, so we weren’t game to go any further without a spare, so back into Humpty Doo to find out they don’t stock this popular brand, we had to go into Darwin, so off we go only to find out that it will take 1 week to get it from Adelaide, so we haven’t had much luck with tyres.

Because of the tyres we haven’t been driving far, thankfully the caravan park has a pool with a waterslide, so Chris and I had great fun on it, it’s a straight one not a bendy one but it does have a dip in it, so when you go down sitting, your bum leaves the slide and you have no idea where your going to land, there was even one time I beat my mat down and had to ask a little kid to run up the slide to get it for me, it was so much fun.

Sok taught me how to do Suduko so I’ve been having a good time trying to finish these, sometime it takes me 10 minutes, sometimes hours and other times I just give up and throw it out in frustration. My birthday was a great day, we relaxed most of the day and word got out it was my birthday so when we went out for dinner at the restaurant in the caravan park our neighbors sang happy birthday, it was really nice, but when we got to the restaurant they had balloons and a birthday card at the table, it was lovely and thanks for everyone who rang also.

SOK left his bike here and asked if Chris could ride it into his new abode, so you didn’t have to ask him twice. I followed him in the car. We try and swim everyday, either in the pool here or go to Berry Springs everyday its 30 to 34 degrees but cools down nicely at night time. They burn off a lot here, so last night was really spectacular at about 8pm we looked out the back window to find the sky bright orange but out the front window was pitch black everyone was saying that it is control burning but it was huge so when the flames calmed down Chris and I went for a walk and you could hear all the crackling but it looked spectacular shining onto the lake, but all we smelt last night was fire and also this morning smells a bit. We got our tyre fitted on yesterday so we have a spare, we will go and do some more sightseeing.

We plan to be here until the end of August and then we are off again.

Love to all

Sue and Chris and Olly xxx


Me and my new car!!!




SOKs "home" and worldy possessions.



Chris leaving the slide.




Me on waterslide




Olly and a new friend a Bernese Mountain Dog (Swiss)






Chris & I at my birthday dinner.