Sharon's Journey Through Life

Monday, January 12, 2009

Holiday with my Sister

My sister, Andy, and I went on a holiday together after New year. We left the kids and husbands at home and embarked on a road trip up the coast.

First stop was Morpeth, near Maitland, where we did some shopping. I bought the most beautiful embroidered jacket. We had lunch and were on our way again, only to get stuck in the most horrendous traffic. It took us two hours to travel about 50 kilometres because of road work - and there was actually no road work crews working that day! We finally got to Forster and stayed the night.

The second day we traveled up to Port Macquarie and enjoyed some leisurely shopping and a laze by the pool after we checked in to our motel. We had a lovely dinner at a bar overlooking the river and then retired for the night.

The next day we went to Bellingen, did some shopping and enjoyed the most delicious lunch at the pub. I have never had such divine antipasto. We then travelled on to Coffs Harbour, were we stayed for three nights. We enjoyed plenty of shopping and a little sight-seeing, went to the movies one night to see The Day the Earth Stood Still and ate out for dinner at a lovely restaurant one night. We visited a butterfly house (more in the next post about that). On our last day we also indulged in massages.

We spent day 6 travelling home - a long trip but the traffic was much better. Home after a great trip. I think that I bought more for the girls than myself, but that is usually the way. I kept seeing things that they would love and couldn't help myself.

A great, relaxing holiday :-)

3 comments:

Donna said...

What a great shopping trip! And you had some fun with your cute sister too. Can't beat that with a stick, LOL. BTW, she sure looks like you!

A Bite of Country Cupcakes said...

Forster tuncurry??
What a beautiful part of the world and belligen...I have such fond memories of a fantastic market I went to there.
I think some time away just for you and is sounds wonderful...I know I look forward to that opportunity one day when the babies are alittle older...

Alita Pereira said...

Wow you two really do look alike!
Glad you got some time away to relax and enjoy. You should have dropped in of course for a coffee! We are just before Port.