SLOTCARS

A Gorgeous Gorge

From Bundaberg, where I had a great birthday and presents, we continued on towards Rockhampton. At the caravan park we stayed at there was a jumping pillow. A jumping pillow is a large inflatable mattress made of rubber, when bounced on it can propel you upwards. They are really fun to bounce on. We made a few friends. Some of them were German, English and South African. Dad introduced Rennie and I to the South African boys who were twins, I think they were identical. From my Grandmother and Grandfather in Scotland I got birthday money and with it I got a brand new digital watch. It has an alarm, stopwatch and it tells the day, month and date, it is also waterproof! One day dad announced that we were going to go to the cultural centre. I thought that it wouldn’t be very exiting but dad said it would. When we got there we went to a rock climbing centre. Only Rennie and I had proper turns. Both Mum and dad couldn’t do more than one turn because they had to look after Jarra, the man at the counter let them have a turn each, it was really fun to do climbing. Another day we all went out. Again, Rennie, Jarra and I didn’t know where we were going. We parked across the street from where we were going. We found out that we were going slot car racing! The track was about 25m long and we used massive cars. It was my second highlight of the trip so far (Dreamworld was my first highlight). The cars got up 50km! A few days later we went out to lunch at our friends hotel. Our friends name was Matt. We had a great lunch with him. After Rocky we headed to Carnarvon Gorge National Park. It was really good. The day after we arrived we went on a big walk. Overall it was about 13km. We went to the Art Gallery where aboriginals had made handprints and they had also painted boomerangs, nets, goannas, emu and kangaroo tracks and a large snake that could be “The Rainbow Serpent”. We were going to go to the amphitheatre but it was closed. We headed to the Moss-Gardens. I went on ahead and accidentally took a wrong turn. Instead of going to the Moss-Gardens I went to “Hellhole Gorge”. When Mum, Dad, Rennie and Jarra got to the Gardens they got a big fright. Dad thought he knew where I had gone and he went to fetch me. By the time he found me I was quite upset. The next day we went on another two walks, this time nowhere near as long as the other. We went to Warrumbah Gorge first then Baloon Cave. Warrumbah Gorge was really good. On the way back I slipped into a puddle, so I was allowed to go barefoot. Baloon Cave was alright. Jarra and I got very dirty.

DREAMWORLD

Dreamworld! Dreamworld was the highlight of my whole entire trip (so far). Last night I was so, so, so exited. On the way there this morning I could hardly sit still. By the time we got there (9:45) the car park was already packed with cars! When Mum and I were lining up it seemed to take forever. The first ride I went on was called “Runaway Raptor”. I went on it while Mum, Rennie and Jarra went on the “Swinging Roundabout”. After that Rennie and Mum went on the ”. “Runaway Raptor” and Dad Jarra and I went on the “Swinging Roundabout”. We met and headed towards The Slime Bowl to see a show. After the show we all split up. Dad and I went to one of the best rides there, THE CLAW! It swings nine stories high, spins slightly and goes upside-down! It was absolutely awesome. We thought about going on “Wipeout” but then the line was too long. Mum phoned Dad to say they were at The Wiggles World waiting in a line to have a ride on the Big Red Car. Rennie and Mum waited for about 20 minutes, in the end it was really ordinary for them but not for Jarra. I feel really sorry for them. BOO-HOO! Again we split up, this time Mum and I left the others to have lunch while Mum and I went on the coolest, quickest, highest terrifying ride there. It was the T.O.T*! We had to line up for about 20 minutes again but it was definitely worth it. We were seated in a small carriage and waited for about 5 secs before getting blasted out. My guess is that we were travelling at about 200km/h, the track we were travelling on sloped upwards until we were absolutely vertical, we stayed there for a moment before whizzing back down. When we came off mum was feeling really queasy. We went down the lift to the shop below where we were able to see a photo taken when we shot out mum’s face was really funny but I couldn’t even see my face! We could only see my hair *Tower Of Terror