This fantastic weekend trip on the last days of the winter school holidays took us to Beleuah Ranch in the bushlands north of Sydney. The description our hosts emailed us prior to our departure was summarising what we were about to get into: "at this point most people get lost" and "along Spring Road this is where you will loose mobile coverage". As you might have guessed...Yarramalong is a tiny village in the middle of nowhere, just what I was looking for to escape the city. We stayed on the ranch of our hosts Dawn and Greg and happily moved into their comfy guest house overlooking the valley. We arrived in the dark, luckily we did not get lost but it was still tricky to find the entry gate to the ranch. In the morning we were greeted by Sammy the dog, who pretty much babysat our kids for us for the whole weekend. We ventured out to explore the farm and its horses, Sammy would show us around. Later we went for a drive and discovered Ourimbah Tree Top Adenventure Park which looked like so much fun, hence it was booked out for the weekend, but we will be back to try it out. After that we had a super-yummy Brownie at the Wyong Milk Factory, lazing in the sunshine. Soon enough the kids started begging to go back to „their dog“ and so we drove back and took Sammy for a bushwalk on the ranch, did I mention that this is a very big ranch? In the evening we cuddled up in our house, the wind was howling outside but we stayed nice and warm and played some boardgames and watched a movie. The next morning after a nice breakfast we said our good by's and took off for another drive which took us to Glenworth Valley, a place we have been camping before. We rented a pony for Magnus, well it was not a small horse and Fionnuala had a riding lesson. I was so impressed by her and also by the teacher for just letting her ride the horse by herself. It was bitterly cold, but we enjoyed every minute of it. On the drive home it was very quiet in the car. Yesss.
