Port Pirie to Mount Gambier

The cousins catching up

Hit the road at 9 am and organized a coffee date with our niece, Matilda Herben, who lives in Adelaide. We expected to be only 2.5 hours from the city. We found an area where we could park the car and trailer as there is a lot of angled parking around the town. We found one and started to walk into the city, it started to rain and we all knew, we were getting closer to home as Oliver said this reminds me of Frankston. We rang Til and made our way towards the cafe Til recommended to meet at. Getting rather wet as we all ran and still in our thongs, difficult to run in of course we finally found cafe Cibo. A beautiful smiley Matilda met us and a warm coffee was definitely on order. It was just lovely to see our niece Til and to start talking to family about our trip, I think we will be 
talking for months about it, so watch out family and friends. We stayed and chatted with Til for over an hour and as we were to travel another 5.5 hours we thought we better move, it was 1.00pm. The weather was just awful and cold and wet. 

We had planned a surprise for the kids, as we knew the day before it was going to be raining and actually hailing the whole time we were camping. Our original plan was to stay in McLarenvale for 2 days but that was scrapped because of the weather. We said lets make a big drive to Mt Gambier and stay in a cabin, But to surprise the kids. We drove and drove until we reached Mt Gambier at 6 pm. 
Still raining, I checked in and we drive to our site, No.4 and I turned to the kids and said, wow we have this small grassy area, Dylan's says, "I'll jump out and measure mum, if we'll fit", I switched the phone onto video quickly and said, " Look we aren’t staying in the camper trailer tonight we are in this cabin. The sheer delight on Dylan’s face, the shock on Oliver's and the what did you say look on Lily's face was priceless. They ran inside as it started to hail at this stage. Running in and checking out the bunks and TV was their main concern. Dylan then noticed, from up above, water and a puddle near the bunks, oh no the roof is leaking. I raced across to reception to let them know that the roof was leaking and they only had one other option to put us into a bigger and one with an en-suite cabin. We move all our belongings over to No. 1 cabin, wow even a bigger TV, which makes the kids, so excited even more. 

Heater was cranked up and we had a very late dinner as Mark walked to a supermarket to pick up some Shiraz to up warm him up and I got a bottle of white. Perfect way to end the night, as it still poured rain outside.