EZ N UP: The Week that Was in Uluru - Tracey and Andrew Visit us!!

Hiya all,

Well we have had a great week here in Uluru, the photos will tell most of the story but I will give you a briefing.......

Both Tone and I had just finished a 7 and 8 day straight stint at work and were really looking forward to a few days off that is for sure.

We were up earlyish on Monday the 15th as it was arrival day for chook and AJ! So we got some chores done and into town and back to get ready to pick them up. Boy it was good to see them step off the plane - even though AJ had scared me and got me a good one - saying he had gone to work and was now racing to the train to get to the airport with NO CLOTHES - I believed it until he was actually in the terminal - yeah of little faith - I was a bit devo that he had forgotten he was coming to visit! But I figured he was a busy boy and anyway they both made it here with all clothes in tact. Tone and I had been up town to try and get him some clothes at least - lucky we did not go overboard - seen as he had a bag ful!!! LOL LOL....

Well off to Alice Springs so Tone could get some supplies for work and drop some things back to suppliers. We all had a turn at driving and AJ got pulled up at Mt Ebenezer by the police for a random check - all ok and off we go.
Alice is not a place you would spend a lot of time in but we got supplies and decided to head back to Yulara on Tuesday Arvo instead of Wed morning. We had got on the road about 2.30pm after the grog shop opened at 2pm and we got some supplies and we were about one hour into the trip south and we stopped for a bush fire which had been burning for already 4 hours. Lucky we only had to sit for an hour and we headed off again......
Not too happy about the fact that we would now be getting home in the dark - not good to do so around here with camels and cattle wandering around. The only thing we hit were mice running across in front of us. But we did see a dead camel and boy it STUNK!!!!!
Home to get unpacked and cooked the kids favourite meal of tuna voulavants for tea.....
Wednesday and we headed to our work for brekky and tried to get the climb in but too windy.....
Gave AJ and chook the tour of our town and back to the van to get ready for our sounds of silence dinner - FANTASTIC again!!!
Back to work Thursday and AJ and chook had the car so they could do their thing around the area.
They tried to climb the rock but chickened out and so chook came back to the shop and AJ decided to do the base walk but as you will see in the pics he took a wrong turn - lucky his is in training. Bad chaif and a bit knackered he was last night!!!!

Today was hometine for them - very sad - but a most enjoyable week for all of us!

Oh by the way how could I forget - we have renamed Tone "George" as he was trying for days to get the Austar to work but to no avail - can you picture the scene - him on the roof and AJ mostly down here trying to communicate the signal figure - very funny - but funny how Tone (George) could not see the funny side!!!

And we still do not have the austar running and it is now in the lap of the gods - or an austar technical man to come and do his thing.

Well its now the end of our story and hope you all enjoy the pics as they tell more of the story.

Love and miss you all

Carotone
Oh there goes the SOS bus...........................