It's a big one.

What a beautiful morning… when Kayla wakes up for like the tenth time.  Seriously that tooth or even better, teeth come through soon.  It was really nice waking up to the sound of horses trotting past.  Guess that is the benefits of camping at the showgrounds come racetrack.  It certainly made entertaining the kids whilst Jason packed up the van easy.  We just went down and watched them go round and round the racetrack.

Good morning.

 

Nothing like a morning ride.

 

Hamish loved watching them go round and round.

 

 

The drive still seems very boring.  However we are just trying to work out if it is more because of the fact it is the trip home as there was a lot less to look at going out to Broken Hill.  We broke up the drive a bit with a stop at a playground in Forbes.  With a bit more enthusiasm we jumped back in the car to do the 50 odd kilometres to the Dish just outside of Parkes.

As we approached the Disk Jason excitedly pointed it out to Hamish, to which he got the matter of fact response of ‘It’s a big one’!  Let’s not state the obvious here, and it was said as if he was some kind of expert on all dishes.  Hamish had a lot of fun with their display and interactive setups, especially the two smaller dishes about 200 metres apart.  When Jason talked into one, Hamish and I could hear him in the other.  We then of course went into the souvenir shop and got a few things, including the cliché’ The Dish movie.  Then it was on the road again.

Someone is having fun.

 

Can you hear me Dad?

 

It's a big one!

Jason calls our walkie talkie radios as the ‘Marriage Savers’ however I have found they only save arguments if my instructions are followed.  Go backwards two metres somehow equates to driving forward!  According to Jason I don’t know how hard it is, I mean seriously why can’t the van just do a right hand turn?  I think Jason felt under the pressure with all these older more experienced van people watching.  We got there in the end and we are still happy campers!

Happy snap in front of the dish.

 

Nothing like a quick bite.

It was then just a quiet afternoon pottering around the van park.  I fell asleep putting Kayla to sleep so it was a very early night for me!  Luckily I have Jason to save the day and do the washing up and everything for me.

 

My attempt at a happy snap.

 

Kayla hanging in the pram.