Home Sweet Home

Monday the 17th of December... After a great night catching up with the Vitalone Family, we were up and ready to head home...finally! We had a whole 8 kilometres to travel.
The boys couldn't leave without pulling the marron nets first. So off they went, coming back with a good feed.

Back together again, Jack, Anthony & Harry

We said goodbye and headed off down the hill.What would the farm look like? How much water would be in the Harvey Dam? There was excitement in the air.
The Harvey Dam was looking good and we were all a little choked up when we saw our front gate...

Home, safe n sound

The farm looked amazing and so green. Christmas decorations had been put up everywhere and there was a welcome home message on the front door of the farm house. It had obviously been all hands on deck in the lead up to our arrival home.
Thanks Rob & Minnie, Sam and Craig for all of your hard work.

A new sign erected and decorated 

Big red and the van, parked in the driveway - where it all began

Needless to say, the rest of the day consisted of beginning the mammoth task of unpacking a year's worth of accumulation inside the caravan and the car and setting up the farm house. I haven't even touched the surface yet. As I worked I kept going back over a year's worth of memories... I had the odd tear in my eye but it didn't compare to the huge grin on my face.

The kids helped in between wanting to ride their bikes and play with the toys they had forgotten they had over the course of a year.

By around 4:30, we all downed tools and took a motorbike ride along the boundary fences of the farm.

When we reached the top of my favourite hill and under my favourite tree, where Moet our dog is buried... I looked back down over the entire valley, the green paddocks, the Harvey Dam... and there I was. There we all were ... Home!