Day 1 of our trip

It was 9.37am on the Friday 20 July 2012 when we headed off on our journey of a lifetime. We made it as far as Davey Street Frankston only to return home as we forgot our drink bottles. It was hard to say bye for now to our dear dog ‘Charlie” but we know he’ll be in good hands while we are away.

We were headed to Mark’s sister’s place (Sheryl and Ian Herben) in a remote town called Yaapeet, population 45 people.   Sheryl is the local schoolteacher and principal of the Yaapeet Primary School and the School has a total of 5 children attending, 4 girls and 1 boy. We were welcomed and looked after wonderfully as Ian (brother-in-law) had done a barista course and had also bought a very high tech coffee machine so we were spoilt with wonderful coffee’s daily. We arrived in Yaapeet approx 4.30pm and we had prepared dinner as we cooked the night before and had the Lasagna ready to go.  Late night catching up chatting and of course the kids going next door as it is the school to play in the playground and the footy oval. Lily especially loved the school’s sandpit and the boys played with lots of sport equipment too.

Day 1 was over after a late night chatting and watching Geelong beat Essendon.