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The Planning With Kids family was given a Honda Odyssey to test drive for a few days. They asked us to give it a good work out doing all the usual activities that occur in a family with five kids. Here is just some of the things we did:
To Market – Mr I makes the short trip to Richmond early every Saturday morning to Gleadell St Market (highly recommend it for good quality, well priced fruit and veg.)
Running around to two games of football on Sunday.
As regular readers will know, I am in the process of ridding my house of unnecessary stuff, so there was also a trip to the local Vinnies bin.
While our people mover is great, the thing I noticed and really loved about the Odyssey is that it feels just like driving a family car – not a minibus! It is a spacious and well fitted out car, which fits seven people easily. The two back seats are not just an after thought and a tight squeeze as you find in some seven seaters. My growing boys with their gangly legs, had plenty of space sitting up the back, as Mr I did when he took his turn sitting up the back.
The Odyssey is lower to the ground than traditional seven seaters, which for me is not just an aesthetic thing, it is also an important safety issue. A lower based car is much less likely to roll over in an accident. And on the topic of safety, the Honda Odyssey has that well covered with both front, side and full length curtain airbags and Vehicle Stability Assist (helps to minimize a loss of control when braking).
The Honda Odyssey is a perfect car for families with school aged kids. It gives you the space of a people mover but is far more stylish, has greater safety and powerful to drive. We still have three little ones in car seats, but once they are no longer required, the Odyssey is certainly the car I can see my family in.
Win a Honda Odyssey For a Day plus $500 To Spoil Your Family!
Honda is giving readers a chance to win a Honda Odyssey for 24 hours and rather than just run your usual daily errands, they will also give you $500 to spoil the family! To enter:
- Leave a comment answering the question “What’s your perfect family day?”
- This competition will be running concurrently across 8 blogs. The most creative and practical response across all 8 blogs will win the car for 24 hrs and $500 to spoil the family.
- The winner will be announced shortly after the competition closing date, 30 May 2010.
- Winner to be determined by Nuffnang and Honda so check out the Nuffnang blog after the closing date for the announcement.
- Entry is limited to Australian residents (Tas and NT excluded sorry!) only and you can only enter once.
- For a full list of terms and conditions see the Nuffnang post on the Honda competition, which also lists the other blogs participating.
Good luck!
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Family …ahhh the enjoyment of so much time together and the toilet stops. Touring by car around Australia and we wouldn’t have had it any other way. Except maybe a little more music variety and a little less car sickness. But what are beach towels for?! The Holden Barina down on its wheels as everything but the kitchen sink is piled into the boot (yes, it does have a boot!). The sharing and caring as we together adventure into new towns and national parks. Mums shortcuts when it is nearing dark and the odd faulty towers motels that we luckily found. Everything about a family holiday is what makes a family holiday great! There’s nothing else that compares.
Taking my kid’s and mum on an adventure exploring something new and exciting. One week the caves near Margaret River the next week the mangroves in Bunbury.
To spend the day at the beach playing and having a picnic with the children and their grandparents would be a perfect way to relax and enjoy a memorable day out.
No running around for sports, we have 1 doing basketball on saturdays and 1 doing footy on sundays, I would love to skip 1 weekend and run away in a odyssey to dreamworld for a day!
My perfect Family Day….. going for a long drive into the country, maybe a picnic out in the national park, do some sightseeing of the old country towns, then back to the city and down to the beach and sit by the ocean having dinner and a nice walk along the shore.
Packing a picnic lunch and heading off to the park
Staying all day while the kids run around before it gets too dark
Driving home along the beach watching the sunset
Feeling special in my Honda O, what a day…
My perfect family day is when all my five children are home, no play dates, sports etc and my husband is not working, we usually go on a picnic. We like to try out different spots but our favourite is Point Walter, we take a picnic lunch and have a lovely relaxing day in the sunshine have a paddle in the water and the boys like to fish , and an icecream for a special treat to finish off our perfect family day.
I dream of a day away with the twins a road trip to dream world would just rock our worlds we live in regional QLD and never et to go anywhere fun this would be a great opportunity to get amongst it and live the dream for a day…
Trail blazing over Victorian mountains of snow, with my adventurous ski family excitedly in tow.
Going to the football
Snuggled in bed with my 2 year old, reaching under the doona and feeling her warm little toes, knowing we have the whole day to spend together doing whatever we want.
A day of exploring and laughing with the hubbie and kids, doesn’t matter where, as long as there’s laughter, singing and general craziness. After an exhausting and fun filled day out and about, the kids fall asleep in the car on the way home and there’s an hour or so of either silence or grown up chat or perhaps I can even have quick kip myself (hubbie driving of course!). Bliss!
a short drive so driver not tide and kids not bored to early in the day, try to please everyone i don’t want to cook and all love takeaway, that’s lunch organised, now to entertain in summer easy beach beach, in winter we walk or run and sitesee fun stuff for kids and at the same time interesting things for us adults museums, zoo even just good old big parks and gardens and they are free, most important we are all together.
The perfect family day can be recognised if it contains the following 3 elements regardless of the destination:
1. Happy kids (entertained and minimal whinging)
2. Happy Parents (who get more than 2 minutes to themselves for once)
3. Happy Travelling (Having room to pack all the essentials and comfortably fit is the key)
All Good
With a family of 7 and a car that only holds 6 somebody always misses out. Most people think we only have four children, but they cannot figure out why they change. One day we have a 14-year-old, the next day an eight-year-old. My perfect family day would involve the whole family… not just 1/2, or even 3/4 of us. Myself, my husband and our 5 beautiful daughters, going out to enjoy the day together… a complete family.
Perfect day would be my husband not having to work and all of us heading out of the city, up the coast to visit the in laws to have a fun family picnic on their property. The kids would chase the cows, feed the lambs with bottled milk and collect eggs from the chickens and then help nanna bake a cake for afternoon tea. That would be our perfect family day out.
The family would jump into this little beauty and go wherever the Odyssey takes us and just keep driving . Maybe I would influence it to take us to the Bright Autumn Festival, but would be happy to spend the whole 24 hours in it and rotate drivers, stopping off for feasts along the way. Who knows we might just have to have one of our own.
gourmet breakfast, followed by a long walk down The Giant Stair Case in Katoomba, exhilarating ride back up in the cable car.
Jump back in the Odessey, out to the Megalong Valley for a barbeque lunch at Megalong Meat. Stock up the car with gourmet goodies before heading off to Blackheath for hot chocolate and a browse through the antique shops. Plenty of room in the Odessey for a treasue or two.
Dinner in Leura, topped off with an Irish Coffee in front of a blazing log fire.
Heaven on a stick
Nothing beats a big drive, picnic and visit to the beach, lots of pictures taken and a great cheap day for the family, we love it.
A slow enjoyable drive down south, through wine country, past caves, scenic coastal drives stopping for a family picnic and to let the kiddies stretch their legs while walking among the tall trees of walpole, ending our drive in gorgeous Albany , for some whale watching all along making family memories to treasure!
There is nothing that warms the heart more than a family picnic at one of Perth’s many picturesque spots surrounded by my grandchildren.
My perfect family day would be a drive down the Great Ocean Road from Melbourne for a great day in Anglesea. A delicious lunch at mum and dad’s (they live there) before taking the kids to the beach for a sand castle building session.
I’d take the family to the zoo,
Pack a healthy picnic basket …as you do!
Explore the cages……….which would take for ages,
Then picnic on a grassy slope,
Harbour views ……no rain I hope!
Children run and play for a while,
Before we climb the hill …seems a mile,
Fall into the luxurious Honda Odyssey again,
For an hour’s drive but we wouldn’t complain!!!!!!
Five pairs of eyes always watching me,
How nice would it be,
To put them in the back of a Honda Odyssey,
And let them experience such luxury!
A picnic would make a great day,
Laughing and singing all the way,
The kids would love it,
Oh what a way,
To spend the day!
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