Orbost to Canberra

After a disturbing night, Thomas the eldest grandson, spending the night in hospital with a badly broken arm and Jean, Ross' mother also being admitted to hospital in acute care we finally made our move while waiting for further updates!  The drive from Orbost to Canberra on the Monaro Highway is a lovely drive.  From lush green rain forest to rolling planes over the Great Divide with a stop at Bombala for morning tea and to finally enjoy Georgia's delicious gingerbread men!

We arrived in Queanbeyan at a reasonable time, only to find after a few sharp turns we had bent the shackle on the caravan that links to the car.  Basically, this meant that we were trapped, we couldn't unlink the van, after much maneuvering and some swearing, we finally pushed the van and car off the road to a precarious position half hanging over the Queanbeyan River!  The night of disasters did not end there! With no where to go and try to remove the shackle on a Sunday afternoon, we set the van up.  Dinner, an attempted gourmet delight, turned into a messy fry up when I thought we had ran out of gas, and I resorted to the electric fry pan.  Unfortunately, we did not get to enjoy this meal, as I dropped it and it turned into a sweet potato tap dance, with Bonnie enjoying the fall out!
I later found out that Ross had forgotten to turn the gas on!