It was Danni's last day in Brisbane and Pip had uni. We went into the CBD and bought a few bits and had a lovely lunch at a popular Japanese restaurant. James nearly missed out on his pork as he took so long looking for a sharpie pen we thought he'd got lost. Monica, James and I were responsible for getting Danni to the airport so we said fond farewells to Pip and her family and if ever they visit England we will have to put on a great spread to match their fan...

Straddie Danni and I were awoken at 8:15am with an over excited James just seeing if I had a hangover; so caring. We got up to the smells of bacon cooking after an amazing breakfast courtesy of Mrs H-R we hurriedly packed our bags and were on our way to Stradbrooke Island, or Straddie as the locals call it. Danni was in charge of the music on the way so I was loving it, James resorted to plugging his own headphones in, although that may have been because we we...

Haynes, Pip and a few cocktails After a lot of phone calls and misunderstandings of whereabouts in Brisbane we were I finally saw a very familiar face driving into toowong village car park. Haynes had made it to brissie and was being chauffeured by Pip a soon to be friend. They both mocked Monica at first sight and it was made even worse as James attempted to manoeuvre out of a tight spot. I doubt pip even remembers cars without power steering! We arrived at t...

La Plagne Reunion It was poor timing on our behalf when we arrived in Balladean to visit Dylan and Sarala. They had one more day of work after an extremely busy Easter weekend working as new managers at Mason's winery. They had landed themselves a sweet deal running all areas of this nice building in a beautiful location. It was so good to see them, but felt weird not to be in the snow! On our arrival we took Monica to a barn near D&S's new shared house....

We said goodbye to the town of Einasleigh and had a looong drive back down towards Brisbane. We wanted to take the outback route and saw lots of wildlife along the way, unfortunately we smelt a lot of decomposing wildlife by the side of the road. There wasn't much to see as such along the way but that was the beauty of driving in the outback, just a lot of nothing! The small towns we happened to drive through were about the size of Einasleigh and it would've b...