THE MOVE BACK TO PERTH

Ok so we lasted 6 months in Canberra. You thought the move to Canberra was huge. Check this move out. Murphys Law...mate. All we could say was....GOOD TIMES!!!

Heres how it went.

We decided to move on Saturday night, Hayden advised the Bishopric the next day at PEC Sunday Morning, that Sunday night Hayden rang his Dad to let him know of our decision to move back. He rang back 2 hours later (3pm) to find out how long it would take us to pack our furniture and to see if we could pack it in a day. By 8pm Sunday Night we had the whole house packed and ready to go. Dad rang back at about 9pm and advised that we could use his truck to move our gear. Monday, we finished packing the kitchen and Hayden flew back to Perth to get the truck. By Thursday night, He and his brother Matthew had driven back to Canberra driving without stops.Along the way Matt recieved his mission call. Canada Calgary Mission!!!

Kate and Damo arrived into Canberra Thursday night and came to help us load the truck on Friday. By Friday night we had returned the keys and started our drive home approx 4000kms.

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Our adventure wasn't without its woes

We had the car on the car trailer and about 50 mins into our journey the cops pulled us over advising of a blowout, no fine. This happened just south of Yass. So we spent the night in the truck on the side of the road in Yass and the next day travelled back to Canberra to get 2 2ndhand 69 Valiant rims and and new tyres. Get back to the truck to find that the stud pattern on one of the rim didn't match. AAAAARRRRGGH!!! So we kept driving without a spare. We had driven about 10 minutes past Gundagai 5 hours outta Canberra and BOOM!!! New tyre blew. Problem was we were blowing out the rims because we couldn't feel or see the blowout until cars tooted.

So we managed to pick up a spare Rim at a wreckers a minute away and decided to spend the night in a motel in Gundagai. It was soooo nice to lie down on the bed and have a hearty steak meal. The showers were more of a spray. Felt like someone was standing above me with a spray bottle. We rang a guy who came out that night and changed the tyre from one rim to the other. Nice people these country folk. So that meant that I was to drive the Nova and we would rotate and share the driving 3 ways. Don't ask me how we did it but we did.

These shots were taken crossing the Nullabor. There was blood everywhere from all the dead kangaroo carcasses that lay on the side of the road. I must've counted at least 150 dead. OK gruesome i know. But all apart of the experience. Haydee and I had no stereo in the Nova so we got by hours in the car singing primary songs, playing eye spy, playing with her bratz dolls, taking photos and singing more and more primary songs over and over and over again.

These were taken on the other side of the 90 mile straight.

Haydee still in good spirits and we discovered a lil talent. She became quite a good lil photographer.

We arrived in Perth on Tuesday night around 11pm. It was so good to be home, to have a shower and lie on the bed. But one awesome experience that I hope never to repeat. If I do it will be on a plane or in a comfy 4WD with a bed in back.