Loving Life in Portland!

Hey All,

We are still enjoying life in Portland! In short we have made a few friends, had a bit of a look at the sights, but we still want to head out to Bridge water (which apparently is very nice) on Friday, gone to the museum, attempted to find the elusive gannet colony and just chilled a bit too!

We attended Portland Baptist again on Sunday and were invited out to lunch afterwards along with some other families, which was a lovely time!

"Home Sweet Home!"

Dave has been doing an amazing job at the vineyard, mainly working as 'bucket boy'. He praises God for the unusual strength and stamina he has experienced in this role, and feels very blessed!

Ingrid and Sara have spent time exploring the town on foot most of the time, although this week we have had the car as Dave has organised a lift out there. We attended playgroup again today, which was great, and even brought along a friend we met at the fruit and veg shop!

Sara's favourite activities of late include chasing birds, trying to stand on her head (very funny) and a lot of climbing. She has helped us to met most of our neighbours in the caravan park, as she waves at anyone walking past and will have a chat (as long as they don't get too close) if they will stop for her!

We plan to leave this Saturday, dropping in to Port Fairy and then heading most probably towards Warnnambool.

Until our next post!

Lots of love and hugs!!!!

The Wilsons

PS thankyou for your posts and emails! It is always great to hear from home!

Hi all just a quick one, cos I am paying for internet this time and Sara is NOT making this easy! We are in Portland and having a great time, We have managed to pick up a bit of work, today I cleaned a kitchen and tomorrow Dave is off to pick grapes!

Gotta go!

Ingrid

Mt Gambier

Just a quick one to say we are still having a great time! Chris has been very nice and let us stay and extra few days while we sort out our next steps, ie. where to go with the best job prospects!

Ultrasound was disappointing as the staff were rude and the machine said I was only 17 weeks (not 18) so they wouldn't do it properly (they want me to come back in 2 weeks) and I still have to pay the gap! (Well that is my whinge for today)

We went up to see the blue lake today, (which really is very blue) and surrounding beauty! We also managed to catch up with Danielle Mowbray which was really nice, but for the most part we relaxed at Chris's place!




Also check out the pics that have been added to our last blog (now we can)

Be great to hear from you all! Email is wildmoo@chariot.net.au or leave a comment!

Dave, Ingrid and Sara

Balmy Robe

Hey Everyone!

Sorry we have not blogged for a while! Our computer is broke, so we are not sure how often we will be able to update this, and at this stage we can't put pics up. (Pictures now added 15/2/07)

So anyway, we ended up leaving on Saturday morn, after a few delays! We enjoyed a lovely drive to Robe, stopping for a leisurely lunch in Tailem Bend and a brief stop in Kingston to check out the 'big lobster'! (very daggy) Sara was VERY good!

Sara having fun in the dirt at Tailem bend

We arrived in Robe and have been staying in the Bushland Cabins Caravan park! (One of 4 caravan parks in Robe!) It is a lovely natural and quiet park and Sara has had fun playing with the owners daughter!

The Obelisk at Robe

In Robe we have caught up with some of David's family including his Aunty Doreen, Cousins David and Pam and even his step brothers and sisters, Dad and Ros who were all in Robe on Monday! It was a really lovely time with 7 nude children (Sara and her cousins) running around keeping cool in the water toys they had! Sara had a ball!

Dave went out on his cousin's (David) cray boat this morning, which was a great experience, while Ingrid and Sara explored Robe's main street shops and galleries!

Fun frolicking on long beach

We are loving our little camper trailer home and think THIS IS THE LIFE!!! Dave even manged to keep his cool, when Ingrid in a very pregnant moment locked the trailer keys in the tent!

In other news, we will be heading to Mount Gambier tomorrow, and catching up with Chris Spencer and having the ultrasound!

Until our next post, we hope you all are well!

David, Ingrid and Sara

Nearly Ready

Well, things are really underway now! We have the vehicle that will take us to our destinations!

See our lovely white Subaru Outback (complete with a cool spot to put our sunnies!)
And further more we now have something to pull along behind it in our hot possesion!

I will take a picture of it up tomorrow and put it on here when I can!

An ultra sound is booked in Mt Gambier, the house sitting type people are almost organised and we plan to depart the middle of next week!

Talk to you again soon!
David Ingrid and Sara

Progress!

Very exciting news! Our trailer will be ready in the next few days (will post a picture when we get it!) and we just might have found our car! (and at a reasonable price!)

We have our trip books at the ready and are in the process of planning our route!

It appears things are finally starting to feel like they are coming together!

YAY!

Trip Update

Hello Everyone,

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!

Well there have beena few changes to our plans since our last Blog. We have decided that we will only travel for about 3 months (still starting in Feb) as Ingrid is pregnant!!!!!!! :)

(The baby will be due in July)

We have also decided that instead of heading West, we will travel East, exploring Victoria and Tasmania!

We have also now ordered our camper trailer, which should be ready in a few weeks! YAY! It is a universal canvas one. If you want to check them out go to www.universalcanvas.com.au
Well, that is all I will say for now! Hope you like these pictures of Sara having some bath-time fun and showing off her cute new look!

David, Ingrid and Sara

Monday!

This Blog is mainly for James! So it is monday and not much trip related to report, but I thought I would! Tata!

A weekend camping in our backyard!!

Hey Everyone, the weekend went really well! We all slept in the camper over the weekend, cooked in it, even had Christmas in it! :) We got a good feel for the pros and cons of this kind of accomodation and have a bunch of questions now to research before we make the final call!

Hiring a Camper this weekend!

This weekend we are hiring a camper trailer, which we will set up in our back yard and live out of for the weekend. It will be a good test to see how we go and if the camper will be right for us! It's all a bit exciting, but scary too as I think this will be quiet defining for us as far as the direction we will go in terms of accomodation! We are planning to cook, eat, sleep etc out there and only use the house for toilet and shower.
We will let you know how we go!

Welcome to our Blog!!

Hi everyone!

So this is the blog site where you will be able to keep up-to-date with all the happenings of the Wilson's while they go on walkabout!

Kinda groovy hey!