Being the loving person she is, even after a big night out and only 2 and a half hours sleep Char dragged herself out of bed as she had promised the girls she would watch their tennis lesson and go to assembly! Matt on the other hand grunted and rolled back over, so she went solo! On her return, 3hours later, Matt answered the door with..."What's wrong with you... Why are you even up?" Superwoman!!!! Today was a chilled out day, starting to get ready to conti...

Not wanting to waste a free voucher we ventured to surfers paradise to visit the Skypoint Observation Deck. Realising that 'Tamber' were also in Surfers we made a quick phone call to arrange to catch up. Skypoint is an observation deck that stands 264m high with one of the fastest lifts in the world - 77 floors in 40 seconds! That is twice as high as the Harbour Bridge! Not expecting the views to be anything to write about.... Here we are writing about them, th...

We were ready for another day of acting like big kids! With our new roles as adrenaline junkies we arrived at Australia's biggest theme/water park - Dreamworld! It was far from this.... After one ride, both holding in vomit we asked ourselves the question.... "Do we even like theme parks?!" We persisted with the children's rides and then opted for the water park to calm the sickness. This worked until we went on the 'The Wedgie'! Who in their right minds would ...

Has anyone ever tried shopping in a strange city for something in particular? We have! - A same day photo printing facility - A photo frame - leopard print anything (Amelie's favorite thing at the moment!) - Anything that Maisie would like! After trawling the streets of Brisbane, free wifi came in handy, helping to find a photo shop! And achieved our goals of the photos and frames. But trying to find shops for kids was not as easy! And a decision was mad...

Happy Birthday Norm!! What a better way to celebrate than a trip to the zoo! After booking a day off school, we travelled with our own two monkeys in the back of the car, we travelled down Steve Irwin Highway to Australia's world famous zoo. Knowing that this was going to be the best zoo we will ever visit, expectations were high and excitement was building! Events of the day.... - The Crocoseum Show (we payed special attention to the croc safety lessons as w...