Toowoomba

The admonishment of the previous night must have had some kind of effect because our neighbours were quiet as mice on Saturday night: so a good night's sleep for us, notwithstanding the Eloise-Hannah sleepover strife which re-occurred.

Murphy's Creek lies not terribly distantly from the base of the Great Dividing Range, atop which lies the pretty city of Toowoomba, and after a morning in the camp site with the girls doing something or other, we set out in the car up to Toowoomba for a checkout of the parks along the top of the escarpment. And to get some gas.

The Warrego Highway leads up to Toowoomba, climbing the range's Eastern flank. Toowoomba nestles on a plateau on the range and along the top are a range of parks. We stopped at Picnic Point and drank coffee from a 20's-style restaurant in some pleasant parklands while the playgrounds were made use of.

The first Easter Egg Hunt was scheduled for just after that, and things went well as long as Hannah found more eggs. She's a competitive little thing. And not afraid to speak her mind. A little like someone we know. No, not Nicole.

After a couple of Easter Egg Hunts we went to a park to have a barbecue, and an Easter Egg Hunt, just to keep some continuity going.

The barbies up there were a bit funny, little wood-fired things with chimneys, designed for some reason to look like mailboxes. Nicole handled it with.... aplomb.