Another Busy Day

About 4 weeks and 4 days until we leave

We have been flat out today!!  I have exercised Johnny for the first time in 4 weeks, we have tidied up the outside of our house ready for the real estate agent this Tuesday, the people came to look at Ned and will let us know Monday if they want him and we have been getting ready for our loooooong trip tomorrow!  I, personally, am stuffed!!  My body is not used to all that riding!!!!!  No interest for my boy Johnny yet.  Hopefully he will find a nice and happy home.  We pick up our caravan tomorrow!!!  I am so excited!!!  We will get to make it our home sweet home and really get the ball rolling :)

Not much else to tell!!!  Just flat out preparing for our big adventure!  Should be fun :)

Uneventful Days

About 4 weeks and 5 days until we leave

Yesterday nothing very exciting happened so I am not going to bother writing about it!


Nothing very exciting has happened the last few days.  We have been pretty stuffed with everything else we have been doing.  So I do not have much to talk about!

I have enjoyed having Mr.Ned still in the yard.  Tomorrow someone is coming to have a look at him though.  I know I have said this but I am going to REALLY miss him when he goes.  However my excitement is growing as the days countdown until we bring home our new home :)

Not much else to tell!  I will tell you how it goes with Mr.Ned tomorrow :)

Bye Bye Ned - Or Not?!

About 5 weeks until we leave

What a day!!!  I am sooooooo stuffed!  The lovely dogs woke me up at about 5:45am  which was ok because I had to get up at 6:00 anyway.  We got ready for the trip and then went out to put Mr.Ned in the horse float.  That did not happen the way we planned!  I walked him in the float and he freaked out and stepped out of the float.  After that we tried to get him in but he utterly refused.  I think he knew he was leaving us.  Pokey left and never came back so he thinks the same is going to happen to him.  Smart horse.  In the end we gave up and put him back in the yard.  We talked to the lady who was going to buy him about the floating problem and she decided not to buy him.  So we have let some other people know that he is back up for sale to see if they still want him.  So we have Ned for a few more days :)

We did end up going to town anyway to look at the caravan.  We have bought the caravan and pick it up Sunday :)  It was just lovely!  Lots of cupboards a big fridge and a oven!!!  I love it so we have bought our new home for the next 1-2 years!!!!!!!!

We got back about 5 and a lovely neighbour invited us for tea.  We accepted and had a delicious meal to finish off our day :)

Roman Feast

About 5 weeks and 1 day until we leave

What a fun day!!!  This morning I got up and practised making my own Toga (the clothing the romans wore) out of a sheet for the Roman Feast that day.  After about 20 goes I finally got one that worked.  My sister and I then put together a delicious roman fruit platter to take with us.  We went to  the feast and had a great time and enjoyed lots of delicious food.  We left the feast early in order to meet the people having a look at Johnny.  They played with Johnny a bit - throwing a bright blue hat near his feet and waving a neighing hobby horse near him - and not once did Johnny do anything terrible.  He really is an awesome horse!  However they decided not to take him so Johnny is still here and we get to spend a little more time with him :)
Tomorrow we go and look at a caravan and drop off dear old Mr.Ned :(  It will be very hard to say goodbye to my old friend.  He looked after me in every way he could and we all love him to bits.  One less horse to have to feed though :)

So a nice easy going and fun day.  Can not wait for tomorrow!!!

My Darling Ned and I

Productive Day

About 5 weeks and 2 days until we leave

Another good day.  This morning we tidied he house up a bit.  It actually looks a bit bare!!!   One room is a bit echoey!!!  We did the schoolroom, the main bedroom, my little sisters room, and my room!  Not a bad start!!  At this rate we will be well and truly ready when the real estate agent comes.  We have also moved dropping off the float to Saturday.  That eases up Wednesday a bit.  Tomorrow we go to a neighbours house to have a Roman Feast!!  That should be lots of fun :)  Also the woman coming to have a look at Johnny has moved her visit to tomorrow.  So another flat out day.  Oh!  We sold the chickens to day too :)

Overall a productive day.  Looking forward to tomorrow :)

Home Sweet Home

Busy Busy!

About 5 weeks and 3 days until we leave

Well, today was a bit successful.  We tidied the house a bit and took some photos of stuff we want to sell.  We also sold the float today!  However we are delivering it halfway.  The fact that we sold the float means we can now start looking at caravans!!!!!!  We rang up about the one we all liked and it sounds great.  So on Wednesday we will have to:  drive for 3 hours  to drop off Mr.Ned, followed by driving for 2 hours to look a the caravan, followed by driving 4 hours to drop off the float and then drive the 5 hours home again.  That is 14 hours of diving in a day!!!!!!!!  We will leave about 7am and get home about midnight.  It is going to be a loooooong day!!!!!  We are also moving along the real estate agents visit another week.  Giving us more time to pack and clean up.
Someone comes to have a look at my boy Johnny B Good tomorrow.  It will be interesting to see how that goes.

So an overall productive day :)

Bye Bye Pokey

About five weeks and 4 days until we leave

Today we said goodbye to our sweet little pony Pokey.  She has gone to a new family with a little girl who will love her and ride her.  We will miss her and we were all crying as the new owners drove away with Pokey in their float. One of our other horses, Mr.Ned, Has also been sold.  However he is not being picked up for a few days thank goodness.  Tomorrow we hope to get packing.  We have only a few days until the real estate agent comes so we have to get the house spick and span.  My little sister and I have been caravan hunting on the internet and we think we have finally found our new caravan home!!!  It is all very exciting!

Dear old Pokey and Mr.Ned

Yesterday

About five weeks and six days until we leave.

Yesterday was not too exciting.  We were a bit slack.  However a lady did come to look at our fabulous horse Mr.Ned.  She loved him as any would do because he is a horse worth loving.  

I am a bit sadder today because I am finally realising that once the horses are sold we will probably never see them again.  Someone is also coming to have a look at our sweet Palouse pony Pokey today.  They will probably take her home :(  I will talk about today later though so that I can give you ALL the details.

This is an interesting road we are travelling down but will bring us lots of education and interesting experiences. Should be fun :)

Our beautiful horses

Recipe For Success

About Six Weeks Before We Leave

My family and I are going travelling around Australia.  My sister and I are home schooled by our mother.  Part of our school work will be to write in our journal each day.  I will have to write in my journal about our everyday adventures on the road..  I will use this blog as my journal.

I am starting my journal about six weeks before we plan to leave so that I can write about the fun of preparing to leave.

So, things to do before we leave: 

• Buy a caravan and sell most of our stuff,  
• Sell our horses and chickens, our cats will have to stay with my sister.

Once we have done this we will be able to go and see all the sights in Australia. See Uluru, The Great Ocean Road and travel the length of the Murray River are just a few things on our To-Do list!!!!! 

Our Recipe For Success-

Contents:

• My Little Sister
• My Mum
• Me
• Two Dogs
• A Caravan
• Heaps Of Stuff
• Car
• Map

Method:

1. Start driving with directions from the passenger reading a map and a general idea of where we are going.
2. Passenger read map wrong and get really lost.  
3. Blame being lost on the map.
4. Enjoy being lost and trying to find where we are supposed to go - it is an adventure!!!  
5. Return to Adelaide SA to stay with friends.
6. Repeat steps 1-5.

Should make:  1-2 years of adventure and fun!!!!!