Today I woke up at 6am – I got straight up straight away. After I made myself look good, I watched Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. I started to watch Handy Mandy (“me like that show” :) ) . But the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is the awesomes-est out there :).
After watching the shows, Tonika woke up –
the first things she said I can’t repeat here! LOL! Tonika is my cuzzie from How Big Are Your Dreams?. She was staying
over at mine so that Rosie, our team leader, could pick us up together and so
we could hit the road for Brungle as quickly as we could.
We stayed with my Nanny – I heard her opening
the window. I went in there and said, “Good morning, Nan!”, and she said, “Good
Morning!”.
She was telling me that every morning she
gets up and sees like a dozen bikes go past and two motor bikes.
I put away Tonika’s bed away. Tonika texted
Rosie – “Hey, where are you? We’re waiting for you!”
Rosie was at the other end of the street,
near the pub. Yeah!! :] So we arranged to meet her out of the front. Coolies. So
we got our bags, said goodbye to Nanny and gave her a kiss on the cheek :].
Rosie was out front – we put our bags away
and drove to Maccas in Stanmore. Yummy! :]
I had a Sausage McMuffin. Tonika had two
hash browns and Rosie ordered a bacon and egg mcmuffin. And orange juice. And water.
Then we were pumping the music in the car –
woo hoo!
I went on
Facebook and wrote, “pumpin da
music in the car ft Tonika and Rosie”.
I got 6 likes and 8 comments on Facebook!
Yay me! LOL.
We were on the road, hanging out and
talking. I don’t know how long it was.
We found a stall by the side of the road
selling fruit – we bought mangoes, plums, nectarines and cherries. We gave that fruit away to people we met
later, including my family! We tasted some of it ourselves – we had mangoes
first – they were so yummy!
Rosie and Tonika kept throwing mango peel
in the bush. There as a council worker there who kept looking at them and then,
when they were finished eating, he came over and cleaned them up and came to
the car and just stood there. He wasn’t happy. Oh well, it was for the birds
:].
We set off again and Rosie showed us her
old house and her friend’s house. And she showed us Nicole Kidman and Keith
Urban’s house from the front.
And then onto the Hume Highway – highlights
included the dog on the tucker box 5km from Gundagai.
We stopped and had lunch in a place with
trains.
Food is important to me so this is what we
ate.
I had a ham, cheese and tomato toastie. So
did Rosie. And Tonika ordered a bowl of chips with chicken salt and BBQ sauce.
There was this antique thingy there and Tonika and I walked in and got the
shivers. We went into the old train
carriage – we got the shivers again, so we quickly walked out and sat down at
the table. We told Rosie she should go in the antique part – Tonika went with
her and by the time they got back, the FOOD was ready. Yay!
While we were eating, a buzzer kept going
off in the restaurant and Tonika kept saying, “It’s Toby! He’s hungry! Toby’s
angry”, as though there was a ghost there. I just kept on laughing, while
eating the toastie. :]
Then we finished eating and we said goodbye
to the people in the café.
We saw a place that sold old woolen clothes
– ewwy!! LOL! So, we went inside. Rosie saw an Aboriginal blanket – she didn’t
buy it. But she did buy a book about making clothes.
And then off we went again, headed for
Brungle.
There was a lookout on a hill – the view
was amazing! I couldn’t believe it!
We took photos while Rosie looked at a map
– she was trying to find Brungle.
Eventually, we found it. We took photos at
the sign that said, “Welcome to Brungle”.
We stopped at a memorial where a man was mowing the lawn. We chatted to him and he knew all the people that we came to see – Margaret, Elva, Sonni, and Shirley.
He knew them all! And we were right next
door to Margaret’s house. We knocked on the door. A beautiful dog bounded out
and I patted it. Tonika panicked and ran straight for the gate. LOL! I laughed
at her.
Rosie kept on shouting out and a man came
out. He told us Margaret wasn’t there – SAD FACE
I introduced myself and it turned out the
man was Margaret’s grandson. Rosie gave her number.
Then we went to Elva’s place – I introduced
myself again and we were chit-chatting LOL! She asked me how Aunty Val is going
and I said, “she’s good”. Aunty Elva was happy to hear that.
We let Aunty Elva know that we wanted to
get Sonni and her together to ask her some questions. We said goodbye to Aunty
Elva and went to see Sonni.
But we didn’t know where she lived – we
asked two lil boys who were mowing a lawn. LOL – watta good boy!
We asked them where does Sonni live – they
pointed and we went there!
We went up the drive – Tonika and I kept
reminding Rosie, this is trespassing. LOL. We laughed a lot.
Then Aunty Sonni came out and Rosie just
looked at me and I said, “Aw, I don’t like talking first”. Sonni said
something.
Finally, I introduced myself – “Hi, I’m
Luwanna Cunningham. I’m Valerie’s grand-daughter.”
And Sonni said, “Aw, hello! I’m your
cousin” :] and she gave me a hug and then she asked Tonika how she was related
to her. Then she gave Tonika a hug too.
Rosie was talking like usual!
Aunty Sonni had a little dog – and I went
to pat it but it bit me. LOL. It didn’t hurt.
We were talking about how she’s the head
person of the community centre in Brungle and we arranged to meet up there to
ask questions.
Oh, and I met Aunty Elva’s daughter,
Rebecca too.
We were still talking….and talking….and
talking.
Then we went to find our motel room but went to the information centre on the way – it had a big, black pig! OMG!!!! I was so
frightened – it was SO big. LOL.
Rosie bought me this book called “Moth
Hunters of the Australian Capital Territory” by Josephine Hood.
There was a gallery next door – we visited.
There were animals everywhere and I was really freaked out but I took awesome
photos. Ooooh yeah!
When we finished at the gallery, we finally
went to our motel. The man running the motel told us about the restaurants
nearby. And he gave us this yellow form to tell him what we wanted for
breakfast.
We got the key to the room and Tonika took
it. When she opened the door to our room, the first thing she said was, “OMG!
Plasma TV!” Woohoo!
Then Rosie came to our room and gave us
books to write diary entries.
Tonika and I haven’t written
like this before – this is my first time doing all this. I kind of enjoy it
because I’m talking about my cousins that I just met (SO EXCITED) and we spent
like an hour writing!
We looked at the time – “Oh,
we’d better go out for dinner” – but I was still writing. LOL! You would never
thought I would do this much writing! LOL!
I’m proud of myself for doing
this.
We went on the hunt for the Ellicious
Restaurant (The Hub, 43 – 5 Wynyard Street, Tumut). Tonika and I went looking
but it was Rosie who finally spotted The Hub! Woohoo! Finally!
We asked for a table for three – and the
lady said they had one for us. I was looking at the other people in there and
they looked up themselves.
We were taking photos. We poured coke into
wine glasses to try to fit in – but it didn’t work!
We were teaching Rosie what esayz actually
means – it was pretty funny.
Food time again – so when we ordered, it
went like this:
Tonika and I had chicken (breast fillet
filled with roasted capsicum, and served with a creamy tomato sauce, potato and
sweet potato mash) – yummy!
We ate it all.
Rosie had sirloin – locally bred sirloin to
be exact. It was char-grilled and cooked to your preference. She had it medium
and it was served with a “peppercorn jus”. And we had garlic bread and greek salad.
I got some vinegar from the greek salad in
my eye and it really hurt.
We had a drive after dinner. We went up a
hill and we could see all the lights below us, and the moon. It was so cool. We
were taking photos – but they didn’t turn out.
We went to another hill to be closer to the
moon but the photos were still not good. We drove around for a little while and
then we went back to our rooms to look at all the photos we had taken. We took
330 pics! LOL. That’s alot, ay!
I came back to my room to finish this
diary.
