Emilys Birthday

Thursday was Emilys' 12th Birthday.

The girls went shopping in the Stocklands Mall which (unknown to us) opened the same day which meant it was busier than boxing day sale crowds!  Emily had received some money for her birthday & it was burning a hole in her pocket so she had to try to spend some of it.  I headed out to find some spare parts and talk to some suspension folk about an uncomfortable shudder we'd been experiencing in CJ. We had also broken the jockey wheel on the front of the camper trailer and I needed to replace it.  I did replace it with a much bigger heavier item however it was too big and I had to swap with the smaller item.

We went to the movies to see 'Blended', a movie with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore which Emily wanted to see, as well as have a pizza for dinner followed by cheesecake from the Cheesecake shop.

CJ was booked in to Fulcrum Fraser Coast on Friday to replace some very worn trailing arm bushes and some sway bar mounts which surprisingly were not picked up at a couple of previous visits to other establishments.

Friday I dropped CJ off at the suspension shop and we then headed off down for a wander along the beach before visiting The Great Australian Ice Creamery which sports 72 flavours of ice cream!! Needless to say it was then home to have a much healthier dinner previously made by my mum some weeks before, thanks mum, they were great.

CJ now rides unbelievably better and is not unsettled by the slightest bump after having all bushes and rubbers replaced along with Lovells springs and Bilstein shocks installed before leaving Sydney. It's a load off my mind that we're not going to be shaken to pieces when travelling along the corrugated roads we will visit in the not too distant future.

Have also added another photo gallery Our Big Trip 2 as well as this one Our Big Trip