Easter Bilby Visits

Lots of sighing going on these past few days. Maybe its just me, maybe its just in my head. But everytime I turn around we are seeing something for the last time, or worse, someone. D-day is close. On the other hand, we're close to leaving!! Hooray! We are all excited about coming back and seeing family and friends. Can't wait! A friend put it nicely 'you're leaving home...to come home'. We are definitely torn and it has been a roller coaster of emotion the past week and I am sure it is only going to get worse as the final day approaches.

We had a fantastic Easter weekend. Easter is the last kick at the summer for the Grampians. It is busier over Easter than any time of the year, even Christmas and summer holidays. The park was crazy busy. As a last ditch attempt to sell our car, we parked down among the crowd on main street with for sale signs in the windows. No luck! Friday was a quite day for me. While Sean and Aiden went out geocaching with Daryl and Joseph, I stayed home and puttered around, going through things, cleaning and finishing up a few projects that needed to get done. We enjoyed pizza for dinner and a great evening of visiting with the Buckman's.



Saturday afternoon we played tourists. We headed up to Mackenzie Falls with the Buckman's to do the Mackenzie river walk. This walk has been closed since the bushfires of 2006. We have been patiently waiting for it to reopen ( it was scheduled to open last week) but there are still sections being worked on. After discussing the areas of danger with Daryl, who has been working on the trail, we figured we were running out of time so if we were going to do it, it had to be now. So off we went and headed down to the base of Mackenzie falls with all the other Easter weekend hikers there to take in the majestic view of the highest waterfall in the Grampians. From the base, we ducked down around the path and Sean opened the gate and we slipped in. For the most part the trail was in good shape. It was a pleasant walk down hill to Zumsteins picnic area. About half way along is another terraced waterfall called Fish Falls. It was a beautiful spot and almost as impressive as Mackenzie Falls.









We awoke Sunday morning to a small voice asking “Mom, can I eat the chocolate eggs I see on the floor”. The Easter Bilby found us last night! And left us with a basket full of chocolate. We spent three hours working at our last school market serving up numerous egg and bacon rolls, hamburgers and sausages. Later in the afternoon the Buckman's came over for an Easter egg hunt and to decorate Easter eggs. They joined us along with Frank and Sylvia for Easter dinner. After dinner we all enjoyed a great game of Carcassone.






Late Monday morning we headed out towards the Black Range west of the Grampians with Frank and enjoyed a picnic lunch and adventure walk. Unfortunately Sylvia had to work again today so was not able to join us. We spent a lovely afternoon roaming around checking out caves and climbing around the rocks. Afterwards Frank and Sylvia came over for a bite to eat and a game.