The youngest in the crowd.

Today we are really proud of ourselves as we managed to pack up quite fast and kept up with all the people with full sized vans.  Though we were caught out having to wait whilst another couple hooked up their van, however we eventually hit the road at 9:30am.  It was a really short, but scenic drive today.  Lots of hills for the poor car, but it managed it well and I am sure it is looking forward to having a break from towing when we get home.  We even stopped at a roadside stall and bought some delicious fruit and veg.

Entering colder country.

 

We arrived in Glen Innes and headed straight to the showgrounds as it is only $25 a night for power and hot showers.  Seems like a bargain after what we paid for the previous two nights.   We scored a great spot under one of the sheds and just across from the toilets, showers and where dinner and breakfast are served if we want to pay for it.

Jason and Hamish had the best seat in the shop.

 

Hamish has become so much like us in regards to checking out others vans, however he has taken it to the next level and seems to make friend friends with the owners and gets invited in!  At least he takes his boots off before entering.  I swear he was in the van next to us for a good half an hour this afternoon.  When the lovely lady asked if she could give him a biscuit I did warn her that she had to be careful otherwise he would eat her out of house and home.

We ended the day with a Celtic dinner with live entertainment.  It was a bit of a shamble as they didn’t expect everyone to turn up all at once and was planning to do more of a progressive dinner.  Well I hate to break it, but with the average people are around 70 it seems, most of them have dinner at 6pm.  I even saw them lining up at 5 pm all rugged up.  I was still walking around in a singlet so I started to wonder if I was getting sick as I thought it was a beautiful afternoon. 

Watching some of the locals do traditional dances.

 

Anyway we eventually got a seat and I can say that it was well worth the wait as the roast was delicious.  The ladies were very nice and even bought out a special dessert for Hamish.  We then moved outside and watch a few of the dances and had races with Hamish before getting a bottle of port and returning to the van so the kids could go to sleep.  Eventually we managed to get them to go to sleep.  It took a while with the load music but eventually we got there, got to pour our port and whilst Jason tried to watch the Broncos game (bad reception) I could do the blog.