Sunday was a joint birthday lunch for Warren and Aidan, their birthdays are nine days apart. As the kids were going to a trampolining place near Sheridan's in the morning it was decided to go there for lunch.I had already decided that I wasnt going to cook for everyone but buy a platter from Subway so it was easy to change. Lucy went with us to meet the family.
The trip was a bit much for her, almost an hour in the car and then up hills and several roundabouts, just before we got there, she lost her breakfast. Luckily for all of us, we were only a couple of hundred metres away and it went on her mat not on the seats so very easy to clean up.
After lunch, Sheridan brought out her phone as she had a clue to start the treasure hunt. We needed to walk to the dog park and the kids had to look at the background on the video and then find a "gold Coin/pieces of eight". The three smaller boys. eight, nine and ten, had a ball running from one t the other and finding the pieces. We wound our way back home while they located all the pieces. Jordan had helped Sheridan with the videos in the morning. The kids had a ball once they found all eight then they got the treasure which was a box of poppers, balloons and glow sticks.
It was a great activity and we all got a good work out as it was about a 5 k walk with a big hill at the end (up to the house!)
Lucy came too and did very well as it was the first big walk she had done on the lead.
When we got to the edge of the dog park, one of the kids saw an owl in a tree it was only a couple of metres of the ground. Warren said that it was a Tawny frog mouth owl and they usually were in pairs. I had not seen one in the wild before and it really blended in with the tree. Once the kids got their next clue and went around the back of the tree there was the other one of the pair, so the birds were up about the same height but on each side of the tree.
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