YELLOW DAY AT KONGWAK PRIMARY SCHOOL

We all arrived at Kongwak Primary School at 12.30 today to a welcome home party and celebration with the grade 3/4 children extraordinaire!

Skin, Lyn, Flyn and Banana custard were so excited that they could hardly contain themselves. I was so excited that I drove right past the school and had to turn around AND go back.

The children all ran to the fence when we pulled up in the car park.

Look at Nanna showing off her yellow T shirt.

 

I loved this pants leg that said, " JO AND SKIN ROCK!"

Judy had a twist to HER yellow!

JUST LOOK AT THESE YELLOW CLOGS!!!!!!

We went into the YELLOW classroom and met two more bananas.

OUR EYES NEARLY POPPED OUT OF OUR HEADS WHEN WE SAW THE YELLOW FOOD....

 

AND...THE 3 YELLOW PICTURE BOOKS OF OUR TRAVELS....

 

WHAT A WONDERFUL DAY WE ALL HAD.

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR FOLLOWING OUR TOUR, FOR YOUR FANTASTIC POEMS, YOUR WARM WELCOME, YOUR YELLOW SONGS, YOUR YELLOW DECORATIONS, ESPECIALLY WELL THOUGHT OUT YELLOW FOOD AND FOR MAKING US ALL FEEL SO HAPPY TO BE VISITING YOU ALL.

Skin says thank you for his warm scarf.....so do Lyn, Flyn and Banana Custard.

NOW WHERE IS THAT NAUGHTY LYN?

SHE HAS RUN AWAY AGAIN.....BAD CARROT!!!!!!!!

 

QUESTION TIME>>>>

CAN YOU FIT A WHOLE GRADE OF CHILDREN IN THE LUNASEA VAN?

 

YES!

HOME SAFE BUT NOT SOUND

We have all been home now for 2 weeks, but I gave Skin a bad case of flue! I drove home the last day feeling very unwell and shaking so much that the van was wobbling side to side.

Skin caught the flue from me and has been in bed VERY, VERY, SICK unable to move FOR 14 DAYS!!!!!

At one stage I thought that I might have to take him to the Foster hospital.

Here he is in bed with a bandage over his eyes and sunglasses because the light hurts his eyes and gives him a splitting headache.

He FINALLY managed to get out of bed today on very wobbly legs and pose for a 'COMING HOME PICTURE!"

Here we all are....SKIN, BANANA CUSTARD, LYN AND FLYN CARROT AND ME. A BIT LATE, BUT AT LEAST WE ARE HOME!

We are all happy to be back in Venus Bay and have not stopped talking about our adventures. The carrot family seem to have moved into our house for a while and Banana Custard is enjoying a BREAK away from the HOT North. There were times on our trip when the temperature began to rise quite rapidly!

We are all looking forward to YELLOW DAY AT KONGWAK PRIMARY SCHOOL after the holidays. Skin will have fully recovered by then and will be in his usual HAPPY MOOD!

LOOK AT THE WEBLOG NEXT TERM, TERM 4..... FOR YELLOW DAY AT KONGWAK PRIMARY SCHOOL!   Bye for now.........Jo, Skin, Lyn, Flyn and Banana Custard.

NEARLY HOME

Yes......it is hard to believe but we are nearly home. This is our last night in a caravan park and we are having a celebration.

Skin and Banana Custard and me are all singing and dancing around the van remembering all the wonderful adventures we have had over the past five months.

 

Skin was a bit worried when we arrived at this park as when we pulled up he discovered that I had been driving the entire day with a pair of shorts on the front bumper bar.

I had hung them out to dry when I stopped for lunch and forgot to pack them in the van!

i WONDERED WHY PEOPLE WERE PASSING ME WAVING AND POINTING! I THOUGHT THAT THEY JUST LIKED THE THOUGHT OF A LUNASEA VAN.

WE WOULD ALL LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR FOLLOWING OUR ADVENTURES!

We are looking forward to YELLOW DAY at Kongwak Primary school and catching up with all our friends again. The time has just raced by........I wonder what Skin will do when he arrives home??????

COFFS HARBOUR TO NEWCASTLE

Look at yesterdays blog to see Skin's welcome back from the Olympic games.

He has found a new friend, Banana Custard and she is travelling back home with us to Venus Bay.

Today was a HUGE DAY.....9 HOURS TRAVELLING from Coffs Harbour to Newcastle.

( Most travellers can do this distance in 4 or 5 hours!!!!)

Skin put on earmuffs so that he would not have to listen to my TUTTI FRUTTI tape again and again.

 

Finally Banana Custard put him back in a good mood.

She is much better for Skin than that Lyn Carrot.

She makes him laugh and sing silly songs. They get along very well together.

He finds her very APPEALING!!!!!!!!!!!

We will all be home in 6 sleeps..........

What a time we have had...

Keep watching our final days ON TOUR..........WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE NEXT 6 DAYS????????????

SKIN RETURNS FROM THE OLYMPICS

I met Skin today at the Gold Coast Airport. He has been visiting the Olympics in Beijing, China. He was invited as an ambassador fruit of Australia and it was TOP SECRET!!!!!!

   He has brought back a new friend he met on his travels. She is warm, sweet and very cuddly. He calls her 'BANANA CUSTARD' and she is the colour of honey.

I THINK SKIN IS IN LOVE!!!!!!

We all went to the Big Banana to celebrate a beautiful friendship.

Skin and Custard shared a HUGE BANANA SPLIT...

I chose a banana NUT MUFFIN!

My muffin had an extremely soft centre and crushed nuts to die for!!!!

It was so large that it took me hours to consume. But I savoured every bite!

We all went outside the cafe to look at the Big Banana model.

This picture looks as though Skin is balancing the banana on his head!

 

 

Here is a photo of Skin in a rubber circle. He wanted to show off his flair for modelling to Banana Custard.

Here he is with his hands around two peeled bananas.

They seem to be coming at him from all directions.

 

The whole place is filled with bananas in every shape and form.

I have never seen so many varieties of bananas in my entire life!

Skin bought some very special banana 'things' for all the children in grade 3/4 at Kongwak Primary School. We can't wait for 'YELLOW DAY" We will all be there.....Jo, Skin, Lyn, Flyn and Banana Custard.

Only one more week and we will all be home at Venus Bay....

What an amazing trip we have had....I wonder what will happen in the next week???????

AYR SICK

Skin became very sick in Ayr, so did Lyn Carrot.

Skin ate some blended chocolate and Lyn scoffed down a whole packet of dark chocolate which gave her the worst heartburn she had ever experienced. I left her with her carrot family in the caravan park  and then took Skin to the local market.

HE WAS NOT WELL!!!!!!!!!

First he sunk down into one chair...

 

                       

THEN ANOTHER.........

OOOOOOHHHHH .....He felt as though he was hanging upside down....

His stomach CHURNED AND CHURNED.....

He closed his eyes and dreamed that he was trying to talk to three monkeys.

 

Then he dreamed he was dancing with a colourful woman on the top of a table. A lady was walking by looking a bit worried.

 

Then he dreamed that he was riding a surprised rooster....

WHAT FUN!!!!!!!!

 

STILL HIS STOMACH CHURNED AND CHURNED.....

Then he saw himself on the back of a confused snake.....GO SKIN!!!!

Finally he found a tiny foal and sat on her back stroking her neck...

HE FELT MUCH,MUCH BETTER!

 

When he woke up, I took him to meet a volunteer working at the Ayr Information centre.

He grabbed Skin a bit too tightly around his waist and .........

GUESS WHAT HAPPENED?

SKIN ON A MISSION

We are at Mission Beach at a magnificent caravan park just a stones throw from the beach. We can see the sea from the van window just metres away. I have been busy swimming and enjoying the brilliant sunshine after four weeks of cloudy weather.

AND SKIN.......WELLLLLLLL.....LOOK WHO HE HAS FOUND...

 

 

Here are the happy couple looking out toward Dunk Island planning their boat trip, hang glide, sea biscuit adventure and jet ski.

Lyn is wearing her new hat, obviously still trying to make a fashion statement and get some free rides!

BUSH TUCKER AT PARONELLA

While staying at Paronella Park ( LOOK AT THE BLOG BEFORE THIS ONE), we went on a bush tucker tour to find out what plants the aboriginal people made use of in the bush.

The first plant we saw was a ginger plant and the leaves are used in cooking. Skin didn't like the smell of this plant!

 

 

 

These flowers are crushed and rubbed on insect bites. I don't think bananas are bitten by insects.

 

Skin saw a painting on the end of a log. It was made by rubbing and

wetting different coloured rocks.

 

Here is Skin sitting outside an aboriginal shelter made of bent sticks

and leaves.

 

When we passed the wishing well in the park, we both made a wish.

I wonder what Skin wished for?  What do YOU think?

PARONELLA PARK

On Saturday, we had a wonderful visit to Paronella Park, not far from Mission Beach.

In 1929, Jose  Paronella, a Spanish immigrant, bought 13 acres at Mena Creek and started to build his dream.....a castle. He not only built his castle by a spectacular waterfall but also a picnic area, tennis courts, a tunnel of Love, a house for his family, bridges, a hydro-electric plant , refreshment rooms, changing rooms, fountains, movie theatre, icecream parlour, a ballroom....the list goes on.

Now it is a place of fairytales mirroring a dream that came true.

Skin loved discovering the secret nooks and crannies of the buildings and looking at the waterfall.

 

What a fabulous day!