A dragline bucket taking up most of the road on the way to Mackay

The day before we left was ridiculously hectic, we had to travel to Mackay to pick the rings and my wedding dress up and I spent the rest of the day cleaning the house (one of those things you just have to do before you go away), packing only began at about 9pm the night before we left in true Helen style.

After a limited sleep we drove round to Carol and Ian’s as Ian had very kindly agreed to drive us to the airport so we didn’t have to leave the car there for two months and pay $27,893 to get it out of the car-park. A final goodbye to Ben and we were off at last to Mackay to catch the plane to Brisbane! Yippee!!