Many rain-themed songs running through my head today, ranging from CCR to Dragon to Prince. Its probably a good thing I love rain :) A 'no plans' day today, which turned out to be a pretty good option as its rained on and off all day with slightly cooler temps than our first few days. We all seemed to be a bit slow and lethargic, so a few movies were the order of the day. By mid afternoon Leo had had enough of nothing much (and we'd all had enough of him wind...

We had to set the alarm for this morning, Chay and I had to be at another Wyndham resort down the road by 8:30am for the official sales pitch routine that was a requirement of us getting the discount card that has already saved us plenty on the helicopter tour we had booked for later in the day. We can spare a little time to save a lot of money! It had bucketed down overnight again, we had to run from the car to the resort venue between downpours but still look...

We woke to a bright sunny morning, it had rained overnight but by mid-morning the skies were a gorgeous clear blue with only a few white puffs of cloud to be seen. We dragged the boys out of bed in time to make it to the 'Island Orientation' session at the resort, which included an incentive of muffins and coffee for breakfast. Along with numerous other holiday makers (about half of them seem to be celebrating anniversaries ranging between 20 and 50 years!) we ...

Saturday 21st September 2013 turned out to be a very looooooong day! With a flight departing at 9:20pm we'd already had a full day of packing and organising stuff, tidying the house, an awesome Crossfit workout (thanks Coach Chris!) and making sure we had everything (we don't!), before we finally left the house at 5pm. Dinner at Maccas, browsing the duty free shops, and we were on board ready to depart Sydney on schedule. We even took off on schedule. Unfortu...

The anticipation is building, the offspring have accepted their fate (no EB Games expo for them this year), activities have been booked, and an itinerary has been arranged. Four sleeps remain until D-Day (departure day), which will no doubt be filled with a flurry of activity and last minute cries of "Wheres the...??" and "You can't take THAT!!" The past few weeks have involved more suggestions of "What should we do while we're there?" than I care to think abou...