Clark's in Cobar

Our very good friends the Clark's came through town last Thursday.

They are on a 7 week drive up to El Questro wilderness station...... Just drive straight up to Darwin and then turn left and drive straight into the Kimberley's.

Anyway it was fantastic to catch up with them.

Gabby, Kayne, Georgia and Aidan had a blast.

Devils Rock...Cobar's own monalith!!!

This is at the heritage park which tells all about Cobar's mining history

So after spending Christmas with grandma and grandpa, family Brown drove down the coast of Queensland and we stopped for a couple of days of R&R at a little seaside town called Bargara.
This place is divine. It's the most northern surf beach before the reef starts.
The sea turtles come here to lay their eggs, and it's a cruzy little town that has not been over run by tourists!!!



Also the town of Bunderburg is only about 15 k's west so everything is close by if the need arises.

The Bunderburg rum factory is there as well!!

























































So why am I telling you this????

We fell in love and this is our little unit that we bought.

It's just delightfull.





This is the view from the grassed area out the front of our unit.

Look at that.

Brown boy has decided that he wants to be the maintenance manger at the Bundy rum factory, and this is where we should move to......

Maybe but not just yet!

So this is what our little house looked like back when we first moved in.
Have no photo's of the back yard, which is a pity as it was heaps worse than the front.








But it's taken nearly three years to go from this..............

To this!!!!!

We got rid of the big palm tree and you can't see it but we have also put in a frog pond.

Now when people come over we can tell them our number instead of the old line of "just look for the worst yard in the street"

Hiho,
This is just a quick little note to say hi to everyone and welcome to the Cobarland blog of the family Brown......
We have had a very busy 2009 so far and it looks to busy for the rest of the year.
the year so far:
Jan: Spent christmas and the New Year up in Mackay and then on the drive home caught up with good friends in Cooroy and Ipswich. Drove our new car. Fun times were had by all

Feb: Finally found out that Aidan has glue ear, he got grommits put in, and his tonsils and adnoids out.
Gabriella started school- year 1

March: Got Aidan a BIG BED!!!!! this went great for the first week and then the special boy that he is found out he could get out of bed and into his parents.We have not been alone since.
Samantha found out that she has cervical cancer




April: Aidan turns 3!!! Had a big party for the little man. Grandma and Grandpa came down from Mackay for the event.
Samantha got evil cancer removed

May: The famous Cobar Show was on and Michael sold a kidney to pay for all the rides and showbags.
Cobar races were on the following weekend. Michael and Samantha were in charge of running the Peak social clubs marquee. would love to show pics but someone decided to borrow(don't want to say stole) Sam's camera and not give it back!!!

June: Gabriella turns 7!! Aunty Fi (Sam's sister) and Uncle Erick came out for the celebrations and since grandma and grandpa were in Sydney they tagged along as well. So we had fun with the family, and Gabstar ended up having 3 cakes. Life is hard when you turn 7.

So that't it for now my friends will blog soon
cheers Sam xxx