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| See photo - Our set up at Brad and Annie's house. |
Cousin Brad, Annie, Cody (8) and Braedan (5) were awaiting our arrival in Lilydale at lunch time. The boys hadn't met before, so they were very excited, the first thing they all did was hit the trampoline. We also got to meet Brad's sister Tina who was down for the weekend to see the family and catch up with friends. The last time we had all caught up was around 18 years ago!
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| See photo - Riley, Braedan, Aiden and Cody at dinner. |
That evening we all headed out for dinner at a great Indian restaurant, here we got to meet some of Annie's friends whom Tina had also come down to see. It was a great night with plenty of good food and company, the boys had a blast with there new friends! Knowing we had a big day tomorrow watching Brad ride his recently modified bike for a street meeting at the Broadford Track we headed back home for an early night.
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| See photo - Brad flying down the straight. |
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| See photo - Checking out the bikes with Brad. |
The next morning took us north west and along the way we where very lucky to see three working steam tractors driving along the road, with Chris swearing at the camera, he still managed to get one photo (you had to be there) and a little video! The track was around 120km away so we finally arrived around lunchtime much to the boys delight! We got to see Brad for a couple of sessions, the best thing about the day was each skill level had an appointed rider to circulate and show groups what speeds, lines and breaking markers to look for during the lap. Brad laps got better and he felt much smoother by the end of the day. By 4pm we decided to call it a day and headed back to Lilydale for dinner and bed!
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See photo - Aiden, Braedan and Riley sat for ages with
the hens falling asleep on them. |
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| See photo - The new Scooby Monster Truck, first appearance. |
Saturday was Royal Easter Show day, and the boys were up early and inside with Codey and Braedan getting warmed up for the show, we all left and arrived by 930am, we hit the rides (little ones) with the boys and then onto the Animal Pavilion until lunch. We headed to the main arena for the opening ceremony and then it was the Monster Truck and the Stunt Bikes. The boys loved both, the Monster Truck was Scooby Doo and he proceeded to perform several jumps over piles of tyres, then it was the stung riders performing everything including back flips........... the boys loved it! We headed off to the wood chopping then onto the bigger rides and the show bag pavilion to round the day off! The boys were terrific considering we did not stop all day. We considered staying for the fireworks but the temperature dropped quickly and by 4pm we were all stuffed, so it was off home for dinner and bed!
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See photo - Swimming at the pools .. been a while for
our lads. |
Sunday we headed out for swimming early in the morning and here we all said our goodbyes to Tina who was heading back to Sydney. Tina made sure she spoilt all the boys before she left!! Chris and Brad took her to the airport and then picked up some chips on the way home for lunch for 'Chip sandwitches' that's a new one for us. We had a quite afternoon, made volcanoes and took the boys down to the park for a ride, kick, play before dinner and bed.
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See photo - Finally caught up with the boys
to get a photo. |
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| See photo - Bell's favourite .. Platypus. |
Monday we headed out to the Zoo for the day, Brad and Annie had to attend work so it was just us and the 4 boys, we only managed to lose them 2 or 3 times each! We headed into the city by train and then across to the Zoo, we had a blast seeing most of the enclosures and the feeding shows, the boys got to see Meercats, Ring tail Lemurs, Lions, Tigers, Elephants, and there favourites........ Orangutan up close! In true Somers style Braeden yelled out " Hey Riley, i just saw an Orangutan's penis! " yes it is hard to miss the Somers Boys! We returned to the city via the tram (where Cody managed a sleep ) and then it was on the train and back to Lilydale.
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See photo - Brad, Annie, Tine, Chris, Aiden, Bell
Braedan, Codey, Riley. |
It was really good to meet Annie and the Boys, they have the same parenting ideals as we do and Codey and Braedan are fantastic boys and really good fun. The four of them got on like a house on fire ( thankfully there wasn't! ) the entire time, Annie is great fun and very down to earth, we all had a great time and it was shame we a weren't able to spend more time but with work commitments and our ever shrinking itinerary we had to get a move on south!
The Monday evening we said our goodbyes to Annie and the Boys (Brad started work at 645am ) then Tuesday morning packed up the van and headed for Geelong to visit Kelly, Owen and the Girls.
Here is Lilydale Team Somers for your
Youtube viewing pleasure!
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