The Graduation of Emily Jayne Dibben

Emily's grad started off with a trip to Sydney to pick Em n Steve up from the airport at 9:30 pm followed by a drive down to Wagga arriving at about 3:00pm. Kez said she'd be awake working on assignments but, alas, no welcoming party. So Emily woke her up with a pinch and a punch for the first day of the month. Had a good trip down playing old songs from the road trip compilations that Em did the covers for then on waking up in Kezza's Nappy house we had breakfast and headed to town for coffee and a shop while Kez went to class. Excitment mounted as 2:30 approached. Em got into her cap and gown, hired her colours and then got the death by photo treatment from all and sundry. Into the grad hall for a very long ceremony and finally Em's turn. Check out the video footage.
Lots of hugs and kisses then I headed back to Newcastle around 5:30 arriving home through rain and trucks around 12:30. Very tired now writing this blog Thursday night. You look great Emily. CONGRATULATIONS!

PS: Checked out Kezza's place, pretty cool, she now has a herb garden with Herbert the gnome to look over the 'erbs.

The Big Kahoona Hits Corrarong

Chapter 2 of the big kombi escape. I couldn't write about our Kombi trip without mentioning the trip to the good ol' Currarong Bowlin' Club. The Kombi Kampers dressed up in their 70's gear for the big night out. There was Momma Smurf and CB Mike, Chuck and his Berry, The Chief, Rocket Retro Rob, Chesthairtransplantbrian, and The Big Kahoona and entourage. We gave the locals something to talk about until Santa comes. Everyone in the club got a buzz out of our arrival AND departure with Sue the boss of the joint that night announcing that "Elvis was leaving the building" over the PA which received a standing ovation from the crowd. It must have had something to do with the "Court of King Caractacus". Either that or the sideburns. Anyhow we piled into the courtesy bus for the long trip home via atrip around town to see the kangaroos thanks to tour guide Sue (same sue from behind the bar). As we pulled up outside our digs which was 200m from the Bowling Club the old girl behind Rod was said to say "You could 'of walked ya pooftas!" Check out the pics.

Kombi Camping

After being harassed repeatedly for a very long time (I think since coming back from Canada and not finishing my Canada blog) by my two darling children (who are now grown up responsible ladies now) I have finally started a blog mainly for Emily and Kerri to keep up with their really hip, out there, go gettum dad. So here is the first installment.
A 4 day trip to the south coast in a 1970 VW Kombi Van. Our friends from Newcastle who we bike ride with got together and planned this trip. It was a bit of a retro thing so we had a couple of planning BBQ get togethers to organise the theme of the trip and work out who was bringing what. We planned to travel Wednesday afternoon to Sydney to pick up the Kombis then head down the south coast to stay on the beach for a few days. You can work out from the Photos how we went.