Saturday was such a great day! It was Maria's birthday on Thursday so we celebrated at the weekend with a day trip to The Enchanted Maze Gardens. The gardens were at a place called Arthurs Seat along the Mornington Peninsula, just over an hours drive from Melbourne.

Once there we were kitted out in a harness and helmet we were taken out into the woods ready for a bit of tree surfing. For those of you who don't know what tree surfing is, it's "a thrilling high ropes adventure with over 50 aerial obstacles and 5 different levels of difficulty. It's an action packed tree-top adventure" and in this case it did exactly what it said on the tin!

When we started out I was a bit nervous because my balance isn't the best and some of the activites didn't have anything to hold onto, we were attached to a wire so even if I had fell I wouldn't have gone very far but it doesn't stop you being nervous jumping from one platform to another 12 metres above the ground. It also took me a while to jump off the platform down the first zipwire but once I'd done it once there was no stopping me then. Naturally Davie wasn't scared at all and just flung himself from one obstacle to another; we're like ying and yang when it comes to fear.

The courses gradually got harder and higher, we did easy things like rope bridges and climbing through suspended tunnels. We also did some harder activities like climbing across "the spiders web" rope net and walking along a wire holding onto bits of rope that were dangling down, a bit like the monkey bars in a playground except you had a wire to walk along. The hardest obstacle though was called the "rolling logs" which was basically logs suspended by two bits of rope, it was difficult because when you stepped onto the logs they would swing around so you'd need to stabilise yourself before you stepped onto the next log. Good fun though.

The best bit of the course and the most scary bit was an eight metre long "Tarzan swing", this was a free falling rope swing with a net at the end to break your fall - bloody good fun! We did this one twice; forwards and backwards and I squealed like a little girl both times haha!!

After two hours of climbing in the trees and throwing ourselves down zipwires we were filthy, mostly because 60% of the time we couldn't land on our feet after the zipwire so we were dragged through the dirt on our backs; very entertaining to watch! We brushed ourselves off as much as we could and went for lunch.

After lunch we had a go at the mazes, going off in different directions and racing to the middle of the maze and back out again. Then we solved some brain teasers, the hardest being the "tyre maze" which was a load of tyres connected by coloured bridges, the aim was to get to the middle by following the colour sequence red, blue, green - it was a bit of a head scratcher.

When our brains were thoroughly worn out we found the tube slides and being the competitive people that we are, we raced each other to the bottom. We were definitely the biggest kids there that day!

The penultimate activity that day was an obstacle course, designed for children, consisting of obstacles such as rope swings, wobble boards, see-saws, hurdles and stretchy-strings. Needless to say we mastered that one!

The final activity in the enchanted gardens was a 3D indoor maze which was a dark, scary maze lit up with UV paint. In here there was a lot of hiding behind corners/objects and jumping out on each other. There was also a bridge to cross where the exterior walls were spinning around so it felt like the bridge was tipping when in fact it wasn't; very strange!

Our reward for being such well behaved children, oopps I mean adults, was a trip to the sweety shop!!!!! We each picked a cup and expertly packed it full of sweets, the trick is to fill the gaps with small sweets and then compress the whole lot down before putting the next layer on. We caused mayhem! There were sweets everywhere, so much so that they had to sweep up after us, well the boys anyway. They kept knocking their cups over everytime they compressed spilling sweets all over the floor and counter. I think Davie ate more than he put in his cup - "sampling the goods" he called it.

After the gardens we headed to the beach for nosey, it was bloody freezing so weren't going to hang around. Davie and Steve kept themselves occupied by long jumping over a water channel that led out to the sea. This started out sensibly enough but then quickly spiralled out of control when testosterone kicked in, the result being two very wet, very cold and very smelly men! It was very entertaining for Maria, myself and any other people who happened to pass-by though.

So all in all it was a great day out and definitely somewhere I'd go again.