Cooling off!

A huge amount of the time we spent in Darwin was spent "Cooling Off!" Thankfully there are no water restriction there and instead of normal parks their parks are water parks!



The boys filled anything up with water by any means available!

Ben's favourite was definitely the wheel burrow!

Matthew and Ryan loved the hoses of which Nanny has two that ran constantly!

All he needs is a beer really!

Nanny Bev got in in the action which usually results in everybody getting wet! Me included!



Did I mention that Benny was having NO fun!

All of Jodie's kids all managed to fit in the wheel burrow and Matthew came up with many inventive ways in which to hold a hose!

They all came home with the "whole" of their bodies clean! Seriously, boys and their "hoses"! The majority of photos certainly could not have been put on the blog but have been safely away for 21st's!

Matthew came up with a fun game of running around and around Ben......

Resulting in this! They then got up and did it again!

As I said they used any means available to fill up any water receptacle!

Cousin Eli (not My Eli, he was pining after his best friend far far away in Canberra!) took a long time to warm up to the frivolity but he ended up joining in!

I got lots of cuddles with my God Daughter Ella Rose who was christened by Uncle Mark whilst we were all there. There was a line up to get dunked in the holy water as it was so stiflingly hot!
Unfortunately Uncle Mark doesn't supply it by the hose full so it was back to normal water!

As I said Eli warmed up to playing in the water, but........

he really isn't the sharpest tool in the shed! And this wasn't the only time he did this! It happened over and over and over again! It really didn't lose it appeal to poor old Eli!

Now the most awesomest thing about Darwin is their water park. What made it so awesome was that it was free!!!!!

I seriously only saw flashes of my three children as they ran past laughing!

Rye was keen to get me wet with the water cannon!

Nathan took Matthew on the water slides. Inside the red on it is pitch black! Nath said Matthew started off laughing then grabbed tightly to his legs and then got real quiet! We couldn't get him on the red one again but he tried the others!

So there are three water slides, a pool and two playgrounds one with water and one dry one. We could have spent all of our holiday there.

There was a height limit on the water slides and Ryan just made it! And that kid is so going to be our dare devil as he loved them, couldn't get enough!

Even went down all by himself!

Daddy had to coax Matthew into it!





Our biggest drama was that someone was too short! He kept telling everyone he was a great swimmer and that he was a K4 (his swimming level and very advanced for his age!) And that he was 4 and didn't they know that meant he was a big boy! But they still wouldn't let him on! I tried to make him feel better by taking a photo of him going sown the playground slide.........

It's just not the same is it??!!