We packed up the tent for the last time, for a while at least. Today we travelled less than 200km to Ballarat. We’re staying overnight in a motel, a Christmas treat! Tomorrow we’re going to surprise the family by turning up for Christmas lunch. Everyone thinks that we’re still in Adelaide.

When we got to Ballarat we went to visit some family friends, Betty and Frank. Betty’s son, Tony, came over to see us while we were there. The bike with the trailer behind it caused a bit of interest in the neighbourhood with one person stopping his car to take a photo.

We had a bit of a look around the mall in town and then spent the evening in the motel, we’ve got a real tele and it even has Austar.

We’re looking forward to surprising everyone tomorrow!

We got a text message from Benjamin, our son, we’d been seen! We told him not to mention to anyone that we were home, we wanted to surprise them.

When we got to my sisters, Gail came running our when she heard the bike. Everyone was pleased to see us, they all said “We knew you’d come home for Christmas!”

We spent the day catching up with my family, showing them a lot of the photos from our trip.

At about 7pm we went to Tony’s dad’s house, he was really surprised and pleased to see us.