More photos of BASH

This is the award we got
Bronze Award
$8000 - $9999
Car 450
2008

Damian the clown and his many personalities

Go green- irish dress up day

King of the mountain

Slippin in the mud

Car Wash

Some of the cars on the Bash

Our Awards Night

One of our sponsors Dano and Donna from Dreamland Trailers which is Joys son came to the awards night with us.

Here is our new Bash Car. XC Ford V8

needs alittle bit of work and a paint job.

Hopefully by January we should have her looking like a kitten.

And then there was 3

Well Michelle has decided to go on her own and as she owned the car, We now have to find another car. So today we are going to look at a car and hopefully come home with it.

New Car new look but we are still the Courierkittens and we still have one goal and that is to raise the much needed funds for the children.
So if you know anybody who can help with sponsorship please give them my email (top corner) and pass this blog onto as many people as possible.

Some Photos

We are back and we have had the time of our lives.I know I said I would try and update blog on the bash but I was unable to. We have seen some very touching moments, some very funny moments and meet some great people along the way. This bash is all about raising funds for children. This year we raised 1.9 million dollars that is the most they have ever raised in a year. There were 240 cars in the bash this year and about 600 people. The journey from Towoomba to Bathurst took us 9 days driving about 400-500 klm per day. We camped every night except the Friday night at parkes, it was good to have a hot shower and sleep in a bed for one night.It hasn’t been a holiday for us we were up every mourning at 5- 5.30 packing up camp having breakfast and heading of most days by 7.30 and we got to most camps by 5 setting up going to diner. They would have a meeting and go over the day’s events and what would be happening the next day. They would also have auctions most nights selling of lots of different things Day 1 Friday
After having breakfast on the rooftop of the shopping centre in toowoomba. The bash cars looked great and everyone was in costume. It was time to start your engines and start going. There was excitement in the car. We went thru all the creek crossing that be practiced on the virgin bash so this time we didn’t get stuck in any.
Our first visit was The Risk Public School, stopping and saying hello to the kids. Then we headed to Maroon state school for lunch where we were greeted by lots more kids.
Our overnight stop was at casino where we had a yummy diner, followed by some dancing. We camped at the Queen Elizabeth Park.

Day 2 Saturday
Today was many corners twisting and turning across tenterfield for lunch then to Dorrigo for overnight stop.Today is the day that will test your brakes. Well we certainly did that, we had some very steep mountains to climb and the valiant was struggling we overheating problem which left us on the road for about 1 hour to cool down. Then as we were about 10 mins to camp site we ran out of petrol, so we didn’t arrive till 7.30pm so setting up tent in dark was challenging

Day3 Sunday
Today is only a short trip today, Heading to Barraba. They will be closing the main street of for a massive street party and what a great night it was. We got to see the Buddy Holly Show which will be traveling Australia in 2009. We headed back to campsite where they were still partying on. It started raining and lots of our stuff got wet.

Day4 Monday
Firstly we pass through Boggabri where we stop and say hello to the kids. Then we head to Binnaway for lunch. Then we head to Mudgee where we stay at Racecourse track. It was freezing.

They have lots of fun stops on the way where you have to get out and play the games and if you don’t you get fined. There are also lots of bribes along the way thru check points, lots of fun.
They also have virgin swap navigators- which means you swap navigators and have to go in someone else’s car. I had the pleasure of going with mark and Russell who are from Cairns car #369 and Spiro went with the girls. It had been raining so we got too got thru all these mud tracks. Cars were sliding sideways some were bogged and had to get pulled out, and everyone was having fun.

Day5 Tuesday
Wow what a mourning after defrosting we have a steep and winding narrow road of the bridle track (the signs say 4 wheel drive only)
Then we go thru Bathurst. We were able to do the circuit which was fantastic.
Then we headed to Cowra which was Prison break theme night. We were freezing it was so cold there was ice on the windscreens of the bash cars.
We did another swap of navigator this time Joy got out and went with #2008 and David hopped in with us.
It is a great way of meeting new people and everyone is so helpful. They really are a great bunch of people.

Day7 Thursday
When we pulled up at Lake Cargelligo we picked a camp stop overlooking the lake it was beautiful. Barbie car was camped next to us and they had a portable shower, which we were quite willing to pay for. It was great to have a very quick hot shower.


Day8 Friday
Waking up on the lake was beautiful and down near the water the guys from Highlanders car were playing the bagpipes with the sun rising behind them. (we have been woken up with the bagpipes playing every mourning at 5am, and one mourning they started at 4.30am ,It was a lovely sound lying there listening to them in the distance until they got up close to your tent.) Today’s theme is Irish day so we had our green hair and hats on. Heading out to______-for lunch.
After lunch we swooped cars again, I got in with 2008 and Dick went with the girls. We were all kept very entertained with 2008 getting lost. Heading into parkes for our awards night we decided to get a hotel as we have been having cold showers most of the way. We had our awards night but we were all tired we didn’t stay very long.

Day9 Saturday
Leaving Parkes to head to Bathurst.
Only a short drive to Bathurst where we will set up camp next to the trackside. We had a great camp spot and short walk to the start/finish line. We had buses picking us up to take us to diner and we had Mental as Anything playing.

Day10 Sunday
Sunday mourning – The big race…
Went down to the track and watched the V8 utes followed by one of our Bash cars #990 who got to go round the track for raising the most money ( well over $100, 000 )
Then our top 10 cars got to do a lap as well.
Went down to the pitts and made our way to the variety tent where we had lunch put on.
Helen and I then went on the Helicopter, It was the best $70 I have spent what a thrill.
Went back to camp for a little catnap, then went and watched the last few laps.
A lot teams were packing up and leaving. The 3 blind mice girls did the diner rounds and we got KFC for diner. We all sat round the campfire talking.


On the way Home- Monday
Packing up and leaving was mixed emotions for some of us, wanting the bash to keep going and also wanting to go home. The 30-50 cars that were still there were all packing to make there way home.
Leaving Bathurst going through Mudgee-Coonabarabran- then stopping at Narrabri for lunch that the Baxter team put on. Then heading towards Goondiwindi, got someone to look at car, but all was fine.


Most memorable moment

Helen- Swimming in the back of the car (after going thru creek crossing the car filled up with water.
Boys pushing the clown mobil through the mud.
The tiger jumping on our bonet then jumping on me.

Joy- Sleeping in the toilets at Dorrigo (had to get out of the rain)
Getting a nice view of whats under the highlanders kilt after midnight.

Michelle- Sitting by the campfire having a few drinks with so many people
- being frisked by Scooby doo


Karen- watching the clown throw mud on the xxxx car after they had just finished cleaning it.
The clown sticking michelles pussy cat ( soft toy) down his pants and walking around showing everyone his pussy.


Its official we are no longer Virgins.

Stay tune cause we are going next year and will be starting fundraising early as bash is in Aug next year.

2 Days to go

Its finally here, We are all packed ready to go.
Today we are all meeting at Michelle's house at lunch time, then we are going up to Towoomba and we will be staying at Michelle's sisters house. ( Thanks Gayle) We have a meeting at 5.30 followed by a cocktail party.
Then at 7.30am Friday we start our journey.
I will try to update blog every day depends how much fun we're having.

I would just like to thank everyone who has helped us get this far.
And a special thanks to my mum who made our costumes and all the lolly bags to hand out to the kids- Thanks mum I Luv Ya.

2008 Variety Bash - Live the Dream

5 Days to go

Wow we have 5 days to go. We are so excited now and counting down.

We went to Pamona on Sat, we have been to Pamona a few times holding raffles and a big thanks to Jimmy and his family for helping us out.

Michelle will be taking car up to Towoomba for its final scrutineering on Monday.

Then we will be heading up to towoomba on thursday lunch time, we are staying at Michelle's sisters house.

TIMETABLE

Thursday-2 Oct

briefing in the cathedral centre at 5.30pm followed by a cocktail evening (also celebrate Michelles Birthday)

Friday -3 Oct

THE START

The bash will officially start at 7.30am

Family, Friends, and sponsors are welcome to attend the bash send off and enjoy breakfast with the bashers from 6.am at the Grand Central shopping centre on Margaret street. All guest must book in with E1 or E2 at the variety office for catering purposes.

Day 1- Queen Elizabeth Park, Hartley St CASINO

Day2- DORRIGO

Day3- BARRABA

Day4-MUDGEE

Day5- COWRA-Prison Break theme

Day6- TEMORA- Pilots and Air hostesses theme

Day7- LAKE CARGELLIGO

Day8- PARKES-Go Irish

Day9- BATHURST

Day10- BATHURST

Someone sent us this photo of what we will probably look like when we are finished.

more photos from virginbash weekend

These photo's were taken by Smokey.

Sunday 14th

Sunday was presentation day at the Mt Gravatt Soccer Club and we were there with the car and to thank James from Perfect Gind ( The Coffee man ) you might see him round rochdale area. For suppling us with all the salads from GMN Vegies and of course the best Coffee and Chai Tea Lattes ever. So thanks James and to everyone else at the Mt Gravatt Soccer Club for supporting us. We will see you all next year.

And this is a sneak of whats to come.

On the BASH.. in 19 days time.

3 weeks to go

Just some photos of our virgin test weekend. Joy was greeted by a cute little green thing in the toilet.

The count down is on 3 weeks to go.
The car goes in for the scrutiny test this weekend.
Then we are off to Pamona Hotel for the night and drive round the coast shaking our tins.
Sunday is presentation day for the junior soccer club at Mt Gravatt, hopefully we get a chance to take the car over there an show the kids.

We would just like to say a Big thank-you to everyone who has helped us get to this point.

THANK-YOU

Virgin Bash Test Weekend

Ok first off i would just like to say a big thank-you to Will for getting the car done. We didn't think we were going to be able to go on this weekend bash because the car wasn't safe. So on Friday i went down to Byron bay and bought another car (EJ Holden another bash car that was all ready to go) just in case the valiant wasn't ready. But we got the phone call about 3pm Friday afternoon saying valiant was right to go. This is at 6am out front of Joys house loading up the car. We all meet at Beenliegh Mcdonalds then we set out along the back of Beaudesert valley thru to O'Rielly's. Stopped for morning tea, then we did some bush bashing turning left into Duck creek Rd-Bumpy-Bumpy-Lumpy-Large Bumps-Bumpy hairpin-Grid-Another bump just like the others. Select low gear-washout-more bumps.

Regroup we will be stopping for lunch at Kyogle. From there we will be off road so watch out for the bumps and grids.

Arrive at Briggen Camping Grounds

Had a great Christmas in August Diner and breakie the next day pack up and off we go, But watch out you dont get---

BOGGED
OOPS have to get out and push.

we went through 13 creeks and we got stuck in 2 not bad. Great driving Michelle.

The car went great and we had a great time.

Thank you Sir Albert for organising this week end.

Now we cant wait to do the real Bash.

Its only 4 weeks girls to the big one.

This is our spare EJ Holden.