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Wish I still had my onsite caravan at Lostock Dam...sigh.... you wouldnt see me til school came back...
so instead, sleeping reading weeding... saving peniies by not shopping...

I'll be finalising my packing and cleaning our little flat out so it can be rented while we travel. Only 6 more work days for me!!!! I am so excited!

Oh Rosalie!
Where is the "little green with envy smilie" when you need it!

i did my last day today and now am off on long service until the holidays.

Tomorrow at about 8.30 am my husband and I head off towards Narrandera and Lake Mungo on the first leg of our road trip to Kalgoorlie to visit our eldest son and then on to Perth and around the southern coast of WA.
We then return to kalgoorlie for another couple of days and return home via Broken Hill and the Menindee lakes.

A practice for later life as a grey nomad

We will be home for Anzac Day to watch our youngest son march for the 14th time, This time at the head of the school as Vice Captain.
He marched as a pre-schooler because his big brother and sister were marching so why couldn't he!

I am so excited. It is the first time Ian and I have spent more then 2 nights alone for over 25 years. let alone actually having 4 weeks off!

The damper to the whole thing is that today we had to say goodbye to our faithful kelpie. She has been part of the family for 15 and a half years. The youngest can't remember a time when she wasn't here.

Japan for me!! Very excited; I went 12 years back on a sister city exchange program and loved it. My husband has been wanting to go ever since, so off we go. Will travel about plus visit one of the students we had stay with us many years ago. Then daughter number 2 will visit us in her break (Canberra teacher), so, no rest but looking forward to it. Happy holidays everyone.

I am off to see Bruce Springsteen tonight, and if he doesn't pick me out from the crowd to run off with him to live happily ever after................... I will be going 4WDriving for Easter with my Hubby !!!

Loopy wrote:Oh Rosalie!
Where is the "little green with envy smilie" when you need it!

At the end of the list there's:

But we really need something like this:

I'm green with envy all round, dental Day surgery in Albury woohoo then cleaning out cupboards (at my leisure) Maybe up the exercise level a few, maybe a lot of walks down the river.

Think of me fibreweb when you're crossing the mighty Murrumbidgee River at Narrandera I'm down stream about an hour.

Have a well deserved holiday everybody lets start with Easter. Two four day weeks how did we work that one this year. Woohoo

Thanks Graham! Now I'm that I didn't look further! Happy Easter everyone!

I miss camp cooking we did every time we went out in the caravan.
I love the smell of a good fire and a camp oven in the coals
Have a great camping trip Sharon
Happy and safe Easter to all

Oh Macca, these holidays 2 years ago I too had dental surgery - the start of the worst period of my life. I hope yours goes better than mine, I'm sure it will.
Favourite son (only son) is getting married on Easter Saturday to a wonderful girl - in a shearing shed - so looking forward to it.

All you guys sound like you have fantastic holiday plans.

I will be doing nothing this easter but at least my husband will be home for the entire 2 weeks so that will be nice. (He works in WA for 2 weeks on 2 off).

Well it's only easter break for us (less then two weeks after that term break WooHoo!) We are off on a family camping trip with a couple of other families. 9 kids (16 mths to 10 years) and 6 adults and 4 days of fun and Chocolate!! My kids only concern is if the Easter Bunny will find them

I went to a wedding in a shearing shed last weekend in Henty!!!
It was loads of fun!!!! The kids loves the 'slides' in their best clothes~

YEA ITS HOLIDAY TIME.
All i have to do is clean up a lab where some bright spark teacher has had the students made fake wounds and fake blood. Yes they even tried the splatter test. AGAINGST THE WALL.
rell

every school has ONE!

and hey I have lost my little smileys

Hi All,
Thought I would start off the holiday discussion early as this is my last day of work for this term. I am off to Vietnam and Cambodia(Angkor Wat) tomorrow for 13 days on a tour.
Wishing everyone a safe and happy break with whatever you are all doing!!

Lorrae

Hope you have a great trip Rae .....after my last trip to Vietnam may I strongly suggest you pack some Imodium

Me , I'm off to NZ to visit the folks .

Heading to Toowoomba and the Gold Coast to look after grandchildren.
Imodium not on my packing list.

Oh, I love this time of term where we get to talk about what we are doing when we are NOT at work! It's good to hear what everyone is doing, too. My husband is off work for the first week, so, as usual, we will be going camping for about 4 nights. We still haven't decided where we are going or exactly what part of the week we are going. We'll make it up closer to the time.

The second week I'm planning on taking it easy, but my Yr 11 son is still happy to be seen in public with me (especially if there is food involved) so if the weather is good, we'll get out a couple of times.

I'm sure we are all counting down the days.