Rainbow's first roadtrip, aka The Sarah's 52nd Birthday! Part one :)

Jack and I are truly blessed. We have, through our local ABA, made some seriously awesome mates. People that get just as excited to be in our company, as we are in theirs. When I announced that we couldn't afford to go to the birthday party for Sazz and Sarah, they both, along with Kint, played a part in us being able to go. Awesome friendships here!

Jack and I set off together on Monday morning to go pick-up Sazz, Ealsey and Harri. Neither parent drives, but it's more a blessing for me coz it gives perfect excuse to have great travelling company! We met up with Sarah, Iris and Lou, in Mornington and had our first pit stop at the delish Tutti Fruity, yum yum!

Jack, Harriet and IrisJack enjoying his bubblegum ice cream :)

We then began our journey in convoy! Following Sarah's family's car who guided the way. Our destination was Geelong, we got there via the ferry from Sorrento to Queenscliffe, the first time for all our kidlets! Another pit stop first, lunch time! We all bought some pies and sausage rolls to munch on, as we watched the scenery. "oooOOOOoooo Caaaarrrr!!!!" says Jack, spying this truck Sarah & Sazz watching Iris & Harri run around,

while Ealsey & Jack munch down lunch As has been the trend lately, Jack favoured some milk over his sausage roll

After lunch we all piled back into the cars and got ready to board the ferry, my first time driving a car onto it, which made me feel thoroughly gown up! lol

Waiting to drive onto the ferry

Jack was all "ooOOOOoooo Caaarrrrr!"

when he saw we were parked with a motor home and a boat!

Once parked on board, we all got out and ventured up to the top deck, where we had some very excited tots exploring their surroundings. We took some pics(which is when Jacks special hat blew overboard....a surprisingly emotional event that deserves it's own blog...stay tuned).Jack was busy here pointing at the boats "oooOOOooo Caaarrrrr!"

After the family pics, we went inside, out of the wind. Harri, Iris and Jack looking out the window of the ferry. This was the 40deg day, and as you can see, the kids are all hot and sweatyHot days always means lots of feeds :)

Before long all the kidlets were feeding the heat away...

Everyone else went back out onto the deck, but before long I was very glad I hadn't followed, we hit some choppy water and I looked out the side window to see the sea raising and falling dramatically....trying to keep a brave face for Jack, I was petrified! Seems I'm the woose of the group coz when the others came back to sit with us they said the tots were laughing and loved the boat rocking :-0 lol

Arriving at Queenscliffe

The trip was over pretty quickly, faster then I remember as a kid, and we continued our drive from Queenscliffe to our destination, Geelong..........