The adventure begins

Adelaide to Mt Gambier

After tearing around like a mad thing the last few days, the big day has arrived. With the weather being so mild up until now, I hadn’t needed to hit the shops for winter clothes, but with the forecast wintry burst due while we’re away, the urgency became apparent.

I’d been up half the night getting everything ready so we could leave at a reasonable time in the morning. Of course, that never eventuated and we didn’t get away until around 11.30am.

The weather was cool and damp, and we were threatened with cold, wet, windy weather for our entire “holiday” – lovely driving weather!

We loaded up the kids, clothes, snacks, cameras, maps, amusements for the kids and dropped in to the local shops for some last minute food items, then off up the freeway we headed.

We turned off at Keith and headed down towards Mt Gambier. As we were running quite late, we wouldn’t be able to stop at Naracoorte Caves, so made the decision to go to Tantanoola Caves in the morning as they were only 35km from Mt Gambier, rather than the 100km to Naracoorte. It was dark by the time we got to Mt Gambier, so it was fun looking for our accommodation in the almost dark. We found it fairly easily, a 2 bedroom apartment. It was very comfortable with a Queen bed, 2 single beds, DVD player, chocolates and real coffee! Then the decision of what to have for dinner. DH and I decided on Fasta Pasta, which ended up being one of the slowest takeaways I’ve ever experienced. The kids had Hungry Jacks – they have an Ice Age 2 promotion on at the moment where you buy a kid’s meal and choose one of 4 parts of a slide, with accompanying character (Diego, Manny, Sid or Scrat).