The Urban Hike

Buses, trains and ferries...that was our weekend. We had the opportunity to stay at a cabin on the Sunshine Coast; an opportunity I was supposed to miss because I was SUPPOSED to be in New York.

Anyways, we could have driven to the ferry, paid for parking and made the trip a hundred times easier on ourselves. But we decided to look at this trip as training for our world trip. Which meant we all had to find our backpacks and load them up with everything we needed for the weekend. None of us have proper hiking backpacks, the girls have their school one and Hubby and I have just regular ole backpacks. It was quite entertaining to figure out how we were going to fit everything. Thankfully we didn't need to pack bedding or towels, but we did need to pack all our food, paper products, clothes and assorted misc. items. I walked into the girls' room to find Pookie stuffing her pack with stuffed animals. I gently reminded her that she needed to carry her pack all weekend, WITHOUT complaining, so perhaps she should rethink the 15 stuffed animals and pack some underwear. I think she got it down to 3, of which she played with none our whole weekend. Once everything was packed, we caught a bus out of the village, then a train into the city, then another bus to the ferry terminal, then a ferry, then a water taxi to the island. All in all, about 3.5 hours of travelling.

We spent the weekend walking trails, freaking out at slugs and on Saturday afternoon Hubby and the girls helped build docks. That got us free dinner at the camp at 9pm and fresh cinnamon rolls on Sunday morning. Which was good since our options were KD and stale bread. (Hubby was in charge of packing food and 'forgot' to pack actual meal stuff)

Then the epic trek back which was closer to 5 hours due to bad connections between ferries and buses into the village. The girls were troopers and even walked home from the bus station to our house (about 3 km) with a little incentive from McD's. I was pretty proud of our little backpackers and am looking forward to doing more "training" in the coming months!