Losing weight is never easy!

We stayed at mum and dads for a few days to try to sort out our weight issue. After doing serious damage to the clutch of our new car, we recently had the caravan weighed and it was over a tonne over weight!

We unpacked EVERYTHING out of the van and filled up mum and dad’s garage. We then took the caravan to the weigh bridge to get it weighed. It was a lot heavier than the manufacturer had stamped on the compliance plate. So we made a phone call to the manufacturers and they offered to re-stamp the plate.

We still had a big clean out of the van, because even with the new weight allowance, we were still carrying too much. We left behind a lot of things that would be missed, but we needed to make sure that the van was not only at a safe weight, but that we wouldn’t do more damage to the car.

Once we re-packed the car and caravan we got them weighed again. We had successfully lost over 500kg of weight!!! If only it was that easy to lose the extra weight I am carrying around my middle!!

We made our way east to the Gippsland region. Our friends were getting married at Nyora on the weekend and we decided to head down that way a bit earlier and re-visit Loch. We began our trip last year and our first stop was the Memorial Reserve at Loch Village. We have some wonderful memories of Loch and wanted to begin our trip there again this year.

 

The people of Loch had made us feel so welcome when we were there last year and we were really happy to discover that they remembered us and were really keen to hear all about our adventures so far.

 

 

We left Loch and took the 15km drive along the South Gippsland Hwy to the Bells Park Scout Camp. Nicole and Sean had hired out the scout camp for the weekend and invited friends and family to camp there and help them celebrate their marriage.

I met Nic through my mother’s group when Sam was born. I am still really close to most of the mums from the group and up until we left on this trip, we still met up every week for a cuppa and to let the kids play.

Dan had already known Sean when they used to work together and we have all become very close to the other dads in the group.

The Bride getting ready

Two beautiful Flower Girls

The groom and his best man getting the gorgeous pageboy ready

Here comes the bride!

A good opportunity for a family photo - it's not often we get dressed up these days!

It was fantastic to get the chance to go camping with all our friends from Mum’s group. We had a great weekend, catching up, having a few drinks, letting the kids all play together and of course witnessing Nic and Sean tie the knot!

My mum's group - still great friends nearly 10 years later!

I spent a lot of the weekend talking to Tonia and Cameron about our trip. They have just bought a caravan and are starting their own trip around Australia later in the year. They have tenants moving into their house next week and are very excited about their upcoming adventure.