It was only an hour and a half to Bowen and we started to ring the caravan parks on the way to book in. We soon found out it was going to be hard to get a powered site there. Our resources listed about 7 caravan parks and we went through ringing each one from most favoured to least. We ended up getting a spot in a van park down the list, but when we arrived, it really didn’t look like a very enticing place to stay for 2 nights. We decided we would ring back the van parks right on the beach and see if they had any unpowered sites where we were allowed to use our generator. The first one I rang back, I just thought I would check again for unpowered site vacancies and they had one this time – don’t know if the previous person wasn’t aware of it or not. We decided to take that for at least one night – it was only 2pm – so the kids could have a play on the beach. We got there and got set up and found out they had a vacancy for the following night at a different site. We decided to take that too.
While the kids spent time on the beach and riding their bikes around the van park, Michael and I sorted a few things in the van and I went with Sam to do some grocery shopping at the Centrepoint Plaza 5 mins down the road. We also posted birthday cards to Papa whose birthday was this Saturday. Today was Thursday and I had hoped to maybe do an express post envelope, but as we were not in the centre of town, we could only buy stamps at a newsagent and we had missed the 3pm cut off for that day – have to be a bit more organised in these smaller towns. I knew Papa wouldn’t mind though.
By the time I got back from shopping, it was time to cook dinner – but Lauren was doing dinner tonight – yay. It was a beef stroganoff from a quick meal packet. She did a good job and we all enjoyed it. We played cards that night before heading off to bed.