Izzy’s Birthday

Today it was my birthday and you know what no one remembered it! Oh well at about midday Dad noticed the date and turned around and apologised, wishing me a happy birthday. That’s enough about my birthday presents(none),more about the actual day. We started much earlier than we did yesterday and at about 7:10am we left Dalby. We drove for a long time,by me, of about three hours non-stop without any entertainment except Elliot’s continual insistence that we play ‘I spy’ and then his whinging when it got too boring for him because he never got a turn.

Our first stop was at about 10:00am at a very cold Roma for hot Chocolate and then a look at the tourist  attractions in the surrounding area which was the ‘Big Rig’ museum, some old huts and artefacts that had been moved a million times. It also had a miniature railway that went, according to the sign, for at least a mile. This was not open as it seemed as though it was too cold for them. That was probably true, it was so cold i wanted to stay in the smelly but warm car.  After that it was back in the car for a fresher outlook of Dorothy L Sayer’s ‘Whose Body’.Unfortunately that bored Elliot as well but we managed to bribe him with Louis’s MP3 Player and whatever music ‘Broder’ has on it.

We continued the same way for the rest of the day with games of ‘I spy’ going for hours on end. Our only other stops were Morven for lunch and Charleville for a meal for the car and my ‘Birthday Cake’ of Date Cake. At last we got to Quilpie at about 4:50pm just in time for an around the campfire entertainment of singing. Unfortunately, we didn’t get there in time for them to cook our dinner for us ,but we certainly didn’t miss the great entertainment and a talk with a friendly family afterwards. The only downside was that it stayed so cold that if you weren’t in your sleeping bag or as close as you could be to the campfire as possible, your fingers would start hurting as mine are now.

Time to go and warm my fingers as they’re losing the feeling in them but first some photos: 

That was from Izzy. Now for the stats. Just under 10 hours on the road and around 740km. Diesel in Charleville was $1.43 and the higher speed (a lot today at 110 because of the distance we needed to cover) dropped it to 10l/100 on the computer. Temp topped out at 18deg late this afternoon when the sun came out, but was mostly around 14. Brrr.