Back On Board

Back on the ship to head home, we had a really great vacation!!! It was so much fun spending time together as a family. Once again Travis put together a great vacation.
Thanks babe!!!

Oh Abby!!!

Abby is such a fun cute, happy little girl...most of the time. Toward the end of the trip she'd had enough of the car, she missed her bed, and her favorite thing T.V.

Tasman Peninsula

Tasman Peninsula for a bit more sightseeing, Tasman Arch, Devil's Kitchen, The Blow Hole, all very pretty natural rock formations, and of course last but not least a stop by the beach to enjoy the ocean view.

Port Arthur

Next stop Port Arthur... This was the kids favorite place because we met up with our friends Rhett,Stacey,Sam and Sage. The kids were so happy to play with Sam and Sage we could have been anywhere and they would have loved it. Port Arthur is a beautiful historic spot. It's kind of strange that I would say beautiful since its and old prison were convicts were sent but it really was a gorgeous area.

Freycinet National Park

Freycinet National Park is one of the prettiest places ever. We went on a hike that had to be one of the prettiest hikes I have ever been on. The scenery was amazing. It was mountainous, lots of rock, lots of green plants and trees, and the ocean...Amazing. Poor Travis carried Abby on his shoulders almost the whole hike...A mile up hill.

Fire Island

We went to this really cool place called Fire Island it was so pretty. Some of the rocks have this red orange color on them...that would be the fire. The sand was white and the water was so blue it was amazing. We went for a fun little hike and stopped to enjoy some gelato. That's why the kids all have messy looking faces...but they are still cute if I do say so myself.

Easter

We stayed in a town called Devonport on Easter the Easter Bunny was able to come and visit us there. The kids had fun finding their Easter bags and gathering up all the plastic eggs that were left all over the room. We colored eggs the Sunday before we left so the kids got to do some fun Easter stuff. I would have posted the kids coloring the eggs but I accidentally deleted all the pictures...oops. All the eggs here are brown and coloring didn't work so well, but we had fun anyway.

Cradle Mountain

After we left the ship we headed to Cradle Mountain National Park. There are National Parks and Heritage Parks covering half of the state of Tasmania. We went for a nice hike around a lake that was very pretty. Blake decided he wanted more of an adventure so we headed up a trail that had big rocks we had to climb over. Blake was carrying the pack back that was full of water and snacks it was pretty heavy but he would not let anyone else carry it. The kids have turned into quite the little hikers. Abby still has a few years still before we don't have to carry her part of the way but for the most part she did great.

The Spirit of Tasmania

We went on a trip to Tasmania we decided to get there by taking a ship called The Spirit Of Tasmania it leaves right out of Melbourne. We were able to drive our car on the ship so we would have it when we got to Tassie. It is a ten hour boat ride that leaves at 9:00 at night and arrives in Tassie at 7:00 in the morning. We got on the boat parked our car and went to check out our cabin. The kids were so excited they thought everything was so cool. They got their face painted, we had some ice cream, they played in the kids play area for awhile and then we went to bed. We all went right to sleep. we got up in the morning just in time to get ready and get back in our car to drive off the boat and start or adventure in Tasmania. It really turned out to be a great way to go and a lot of fun for the kids.