FINAL DAY WE HEAD HOME

We wake and are all excited that today we were heading home, we pack and of course its raining so camper is packed up all wet.

We say our final goodbyes to Kevin and Sandy and head off around 10.30am.
There was a bike race on today Melbourne to Warrnambool and we hope this wouldn't hold us up, but it was the opposite so we were fine.
The kilometres got less and less and we got over excited when we saw a Frankston sign on how many kilometres it was away.  We thought we would be home by 2pm but in the final stages it was more like 2.30pm. We turned into our street and there were many cars as an auction was about to take place then we spotted our parents all waiting out the front for us, with signs saying "Welcome home Travelling Garretts" and Dad rolling the video as we pulled up. Yeah we made it and we are at last home.
Oh what a journey, we loved every minute and would do it all again if we could. There's no place like home,though.!!

QUICK FACTS OF OUR HOLIDAY

* 85 days

* 39 camping destinations

* 37 times we put up our camper ( we have it down pat and can get it put up in record time now)

* 20,875 kilometres travelled

* 2328 litres of Fuel (Diesel)

* 7563 photos taken and video

* 56 Games of Uno, Oliver crowned the Champion

* 3 large bottles of SPF 3 used 

* 7 pairs of shoes worn out and thrown away

* 4 containers of peanut butter

* 100's of dead kangaroos

* 50 plus dead Emu and wombats

* 3258 views on our blog and still rising

* Views on our blog from countries all over the world like: Australia,USA,Russia,Vietnam,United Kingdom,Germany,Thailand,Argentina,Hungary,South Korea


MEMORABLE MOMENTS ON OUR HOLIDAY

* Starting our holiday with family in Yaapeet and finishing with family in Panmure/Warrnambool

* My 40th birthday presnet from Mark and the kids to the Horizontal Falls(Never to be forgotten)

* Mark and Dylan swimming with a turtle and snorkelling in Turquoise Bay

* Hearing that Mark and I had become Great Auntie and Great Uncle to baby 'Stella Rose' on the 9th August

* Oliver standing in a cow paddy at the Bungle Bungles

* Lily conquering Frenchman's Peak without help, actually walking

* Meeting up with Chris Green who I use to work with

* Bumping into the Mark Fisher(and Family) ,a school mate of Mark's at Uluru and then travelled with them for 2 weeks

* Oliver using the marine toilet

* Mark and Dylan walking the 10km around Uluru

* The Dingo who took all our food including 2 stubbies of beer

* When the Mark and the  boy's lay on the rocks at night on Devils Marbles and watched the stars and actually saw a shooting one

* Seeing Uluru for the first time, just amazing

* The moment we drove in our street and saw our family standing and waiting for us to arrive home.

We do have a lot more moments but have just single out a few to share. 

Well its goodbye for now and thank you for reading the blog and following us.

Hayley,Mark,Dylan,Oliver and Lily Garrett

Otherwise known as 'THE TRAVELLING GARRETT'S'

OUR HOME COMING