Well, here we are, our first school vacation. 2 weeks of nothing but touring, relaxing and experiencing Australia with family. What ocould possibly go WRONG????? Our trip started with a joyous trip out of Melbourne. HOLY CATS, we thought it would be easy to head out and on our way, little did we know that one small mistake would take us through downtown Melbourne! I know, many of you are thinking, "how hard can it be to travel through Melbourne?" Well, if you ever get to see one of these signals, maybe it will cause you to rethink that! Oh, by the way, a tram was right beside us, in the center lane! After only 30 minutes in the city, 2 u-turns and help from a fellow driver, we were on our way! Onto the freeway and off to Geelong. It is only supposed to be about 1 1/2 - 2 hours to Geelong from our house yet we managed to stretch it out to only 2 1/2 hours. 
As one can plainly see, we finally reached the start of our trip! Our first stop was Torquay which is the start of the Great Ocean Road. The day was sunny, however there was a wind and the temp was ~18C. Beautiful beach! We were on the beach for over 3 hours. Kennedy and Alex played in the ocean with Steve while Rhiannon and Kelli lounged on the beach. Torqauy is like the ultimate beach village. The beach is beautiful with lots of endless sand and some really fabulous rock formations.
After Steve and the girls were done playing in the ocean we went for a walk down the beach to see what we could find.
We found a drowned rat!
I love the way the water leaves marks in the sand around the rocks.
We found loads of star fish.
We could have walked forever on the rocks.
We spent a couple of hours in Torquay and then decided to head up the road to Aireys Inlet where we stayed the night in a cabin in a caravan park. Talking to people in Aireys Inlet they actually consider there town the official start to the Great Ocean Road. We drove up to Lorne to have dinner that night at a restaurant called Marks. I would have to say that when you have kids with you Marks is not the best choice of venue. There was actually fried lambs brains on the menu. No nuggets and chips or pizza but they served fried lambs brains! Who orders that??????!!!! After our very meagre dinner we headed back to the cabin to settle in for the night, slightly hungry but with bags of potato chips in hand.
The light house in Aireys Inlet (this one's for you Mom-haha).
The beach in Aireys Inlet
We were already enjoying our trip, especially with the angst of driving through the city behind us. We knew that if the rest of the Great Ocean Road was like what we had seen already then we were in for a fabulous trip.
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