Thank goodness Movember is nearly over I can return to my clean cut self. A big boo to Steve who could not keep up the pace and gave in to the pressure of the itchy scratchy.
Tony & Tracie
Did you read about Kurt Fearnley who was last weeks feature on the Movember web site, as well as growing a mo he just did the Kokoda Trail. A pretty good effort when you consider he did it on his hands because Kurt is usually wheel chair bound!! An inspirational effort.
My major sacrifice has been that I had to get my drivers licence renewed with a new photo this week. Ouch!! I am stuck as “a dodgy looking cowboy” for the next six years. Watch this space. I will add a copy of the licence soon.
Anyway thank you to those that have donated and if you haven’t there is till time so please click here and give till it hurts.
After a really nice brunch at a café in Currumbin, Tracie and I experienced every parent’s worst nightmare. Tracie had gone left to look in an art gallery while I was going right to take the kids for a walk along the foreshore. I was carrying Imogen and looked down to see that she had no sandals on and thought we must have left them at the table. I asked the boys to follow me and turned around and walked back to our table. The shoes were not at the table so I followed Tracie to the gallery. Sure enough she had the shoes with her and the boys walked passed me to look at the paintings with Tracie. Imogen and I stayed out the front looking at stuff in the window, through the sculptures and displays I could see Tracie and the boys walking around.
About 10 minutes later Tracie came out side with Porter and asked me where Lachie was? My heart skipped a few beats, “Isn’t he with you?” Only Porter had followed me when I had turned around, Lachie must have been playing games on his Ipod and kept walking. Because I was holding Imogen I didn’t realise that only one boy had followed me back and walked into the gallery.
We ran back to the spot where I had turned around but he was nowhere to be seen. I started to feel really sick and the look on Tracie’s face was one of terror. We spread out, running up and down the road yelling out for him. After a few minutes (of the worst panic of my life) I finally saw him about 50m down the road walking towards me next to a couple of men. I ran down to him after yelling out to Tracie that I could see him. Man I was so relieved. He said he was playing his game and when he got to the corner he looked up and we weren’t there. He started to cry and the two guys walked past and asked him if he knew where we were. He had no idea where we had gone and he did not know our mobile numbers. He knew where we had parked the car so they had walked him down to see if we were there, when we weren’t they decided to walk back. Thank god the two guys were good guys, it could so easily have turned out to be a tragedy. Give your kids a hug, I haven’t stopped hugging Lachie since last Saturday.
Our Beautiful Lachie B Bear
Cheers Tony
Tony and Lachie on the Flight Up to QLD
After a two hour flight, 45 minutes waiting for the bus and an hour and a half ride on the bus we finally checked in to the Sands Turtle Beach Resort at Mermaid Beach, Qld. (We highly recommend it 
) at 10.00pm. Of course not having had time to eat during our trip, just about everything was closed and food and drinks were a bit of a problem, but after an alleged 400m walk (which was more like a kilometre and a half, we were sorted and very happy to be here. The kids even slipped in a quick swim before the security guard locked up the pool (he actually left our pool till last and took his time so our kids could get a swim in), he was so lovely, he was actually from Geelong’s Hamlyn Heights and was very excited to have people from his home town visiting. Our Kids absolutely loved having the resort pool to themselves as well!
Kids take a 10pm Swim
For the hour we waiting for the flight the kids constantly wanted to know “How long is it until we get on our plane?” Then for the 2 hours on the plane the question that was repeatedly asked was….. “Are we there yet?” (strange that they couldn’t tell that the plane was still up in the air) then after all that and for the 45 minutes that we waited for the transfer bus to take us from Brisbane to the Gold Coast, they asked “Where is the bus driver?” the bus was sitting there waiting patiently along with its passengers for the bus driver to finish his cup of tea and bickies, then……for the hour and a half on the bus to the Gold Coast they asked “How much longer is it until we get there?”
We picked up a car and went for a drive through the beautiful Mount Tamborine area. It takes just over 30 minutes to get back to the beach from the top of the mountain. In that 30 minutes the kids drove us mad with their back seat fights. I cannot believe we seriously had planned to drive from Geelong to Queensland. Three days of 8 hours a day of fighting and Are we there yet? What were we thinking? Thank goodness we had a change of plan, I know I would not have survived that trip with our Sanity. Our friend Magic and her husband and 2 kids just did the same drive a few days before we left, they deserve a medal as far as I am concerned.
You know how time fades things , we really needed to make sure we wrote this down now and must read this again before the next road trip with the kids is planned. Jetstar and Avalon Airport you are a life and a sanity saver.
Tracie enjoying time with the Kids at the Pool on Day 1
Dont just take our word for it, this is what Geelongs birthday party parents had to say about having a birthday party at Run M Ragged! Click on the picture to see a larger image, this is a fun Wordle Word Cloud
The Winning Creation - What a great Castle
This is going to be a quick post today. I just wanted to share our lego night photos with you and give you a quick run down of how our lego night went. If your planning on coming to our next Lego night which will be held on January 22nd 2010 have a look at this fantastic official Lego site and you might just get some great inspiration and become won of our winners.
The lego night was lots of fun with huge smiles from all the winners! The food was excellent with lasagna, spinach & ricotta lasagna, Roast Chicken and some scrumptious salads were just a few of the selections from the Buffet Dinner that were available.
After everyone finished eating the building began. Everyone jumped straight into it and got busy. After an hour of building, it was time for the works of art to be judged. Our celebrity judge from 9am with David & Kim on Network Ten was David Kirkpatrick and he was very impressed with our competitors Lego entries. After careful consideration our winners were chosen. I have added all the pictures of the winners and other pictures to the Run M Ragged Facebook Fan Page.
I have had a bit of a technical glitch here and was unable to upload the photos properly. I will try to work out the problem but in the mean time click here to see the photos from the night.
David Kirkpatrick from 9am on th 10 Network with Tony & Tracie Dickson
