The Briars

It was the long weekend in June and the little man and I had been down the beach house and I thought we should do something different on our way home.   I decided to go and check out The Briars in Mt Martha as I have been going to the Mornington Peninsula since before I was born and have never been.  Plus they had pony rides and face painting as well.

We arrived to a beautiful and tranquil setting with wide open spaces, three different nature walks, a café, visitors centre and a restaurant further up the hill. 

We waited in line for the pony ride and when it was the little mans turn he decided he didn’t want to go on the ride so we wondered off to the old trolley that was there and he happily played on it for about 20 minutes. 

We then went into the visitors centre and had a look around it and read the history of the place – very interesting indeed.

We walked up the hill to the carriage that sits there and the little man received a leg up and played in this for about 15 minutes.  The perfect winter’s sun on the day made it all the more stunning.

After this he decided that he wanted to go on the pony ride after all so we went back down the hill to this area and he had short 5 minute pony ride on buttercup and thoroughly enjoyed himself.

It was a lovely detour for about 1 hour and will definitely go back as we didn’t do any of the walks and would love to take a picnic lunch there as well.

Aftermath of an Autumn park visit

The little man and I decided one sunny Autumn morning to go to the park for a break in the mundane routine.  He happily played with other ‘best friends’ he made and was having a ball running around and expending the energy that I wanted him too!  As park time was nearing an end he decided to go down the slide!!

I thought I had warned him not to as it had rained over night and the plastic slides were wet, but if I had he chose to ignore his mothers advice and down he went.  He came up to me and said “I got wet pants.”  I thought he had had a toilet accident but realised it was all on his bottom and not the front.  Slide accident to the max.  Time to leave and take off his pants in the car and travel home in his wet undies; luckily it is only about a 3 minute drive.

Too be young and carefree again……

Wet undies

look no pants and love my gumboots!