We got up at 3:42am Sunday morning.... I know this time exactly because I'd set my alarm for 3:30am...
We had a pretty crappy night - well - I had a pretty crappy night - cause the people in the cabin next to us had been up til nearly 2am laughing and joking around.... we're not used to having a cabin that backs onto another one like that - so their noise was coming straight in our window - and me with my "super-sonic-mummy ears" - all noises bug me if I'm trying to sleep.....
Rob slept really well - which was good - he got to do the first part of the drive :)
All we had to do when we got up was load the kids into the car and then pack up Blake's cot and grab Jade's bedding and we were off.....
Both kids woke as we put them in the car - so we figured it wasn't worth battling the "go to sleep you can watch DVD's later.... so we got Jade's headphones on and started Thomas for Blake.... Blake found Jade's old set of headphones (the ones that weren't working) - and he put them on.... I'm sure he was wondering why she bothers wearing them as you can't hear the show as well with them on.... but he kept them on for about half an hour....
You'll have to excuse the photo... it was taken with the iPhone and it was 4am... not a lot of outside light.....
We left the kids in their PJ's and got them into their clothes when we stopped for Breakfast at Gunnedah.... (455km into the trip)
From Gunnedah we drove straight to Goondiwindi and stopped for lunch (322km) ... it was 2pm when we stopped and we didn't leave til 3pm.... we did lose track of time, but there were no complaints from the kids about getting back in the car - so it was worth it.....
Goondiwindi to Taroom (353km) - we stopped to change drivers and empty passengers... then I drove from Taroom to Banana (153km) - then because it was dark and Rob's done a lot of driving in the area - we decided it was best to switch there else I'd be taking corners slower because I don't know whether they turn sharply - etc..... plus Rob knew where there were long straight stretches safe for overtaking etc.... So Rob did the drive back to Gladstone from Banana (166km)....
We got home just after 10pm and put the kids straight to bed.....
Blake didn't have a fantastic night... he spent the entire night coughing.... but we're still glad that we did the trip straight instead of breaking it into 2 days - cause on Monday - the kids did NOT want to go in the car - AT ALL.....
(we did however, head down to Mom and Dad's... but they weren't happy at first about getting in the car)
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