in the Hanigan household.
Christopher, Maddison and myself spent Saturday attending the Mulgrave River Bridge opening. A new bridge has been built over the river that we pass over 2 times every day and have done so for the last13 years to and from school.
We have watched every day the progress and on Saturday the official opening took place. The company building the bridge supplied buses to and from the river so that we could walk across before it is open to traffic next week
Various competitions have been run in the local community to encourage community involvement. The kids from years 1 to 4 had to make model bridges, Maddison fell into this category.
The older kids years 4 - 7 had the chance to participate in a poetry competition about the Mulgrave River and the new bridge, with the winner having their poem attached to the bridge on a special plaque. With quite a few schools participating it was our school that took out 1st and 2nd place and......
drumroll please!!!!
While he didn't come third, Christopher got runner up, woo hoo!! He was a little sad, he really wanted his poem on the bridge ;0) The local paper also run a competition for 4 people to be the first over the bridge in these lovely old cars (wasn't us, cause i forgot to enter that one, lol!!) Anyway here are some pics of the day.
The company also supplied icy poles and bottles of water which went down very well. I have to say, this was the only photo i got with Maddison, quite a few of her school mates went too and all i could see was her skipping along way out in front, going from side to side and looking over the edge, not staying 1 metre from the rails and being supervised by her responsible parent as requested by the organisers. I was a litte miffed at her, after all this will be a historical moment one day in the future ;0)
this is Chris looking down on the old bridge, which when it was built they said would never flood, it goes way over!!
this is looking upstream and when this floods, which is a good couple of times a year, the water comes half way up the trees on the left, an amazing amount, you have to see it to believe it. this is also a popular swimming spot, well it was until one of the bridge workers spotted a croc in there a couple of weeks back, so now there is a nice big "no swimming, crocodiles" sign up and no-one swims there anymore.
Of course you couldn't have a bridge opening without the pollies!! Chris spent some time dancing around behind here, (much to my horror!!) trying to get his face on camera, we will have to watch the news tomorrow night to see whether he succeeded!!
And well last but not least a Shadow shot for Hey Harriet, just couldn't resist ;0)
Well that was most of our Saturday, i do have more photos from the weekend, but you've probably all dozed off by now ;0)
Enjoy your week ahead
Annette :0)
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