The elements gave us a well needed day of rest and admin! The rain poured and poured and poured.......but who are we to turn away a relaxing nothing day! Even god needed one in Genesis. The rest was soon over when the girls arrived from school. Our favourite game at the minute is paying for massages and ice creams in Maisies shop.... and we mean actually paying!! This girl has business skills - if you don't pay she sets you up a tab and charges you interest per ...

Today we went to school with the girls! Our morning was spent in Maisie's class with her teacher Mr Pilon and the afternoon in Amelie's class with Miss Utz. Char enjoyed observing the teaching and children!! Our afternoon was spent experimenting with smoothies due to the impulse buy of oranges and lemons by Uncle Stu and testing the integrity of the swings in the local park. After the girls and Matt had worked up an appertite we went to Arana Leagues Club for a ...

Today we borrowed the car and went went to visit Mooloolaba, which is just over an hour north of Brisbane. After a wander around the shops we resorted back to our favourite backpackers lunch.... homemade picnic on the beach. This consists of a whole cooked chicken, a baguette, crisps and a choice of sauce. The hardest thing is to avoid the seagulls. The waves here were enormous, you know they are strong when the lifeguards put out 'Caution Huge Dumping Waves' sig...

Today we were on school drop off duty, so Char had to ensure that all 3 children were ready on time!! After dropping Amelie and Maisie at school we got our head around the bus timetable and headed into the city. We will let you into another little secret of why people live in Brisbane-They have a beach in the middle of town! We had a local tour of the city sights and caught a ferry to the botanical gardens where we sat in a little coffee shop in the middle of t...

This morning was started with a wander around the local market at the girls school. The sun was shinning, the entertainment was great, the food was delicious and we were spending the day with our two favourite girls!! After a walk around the rainforest close to Tamborine Mountain we continued to The Bearded Dragon pub for a BBQ, live music and a reptile show (which Char ran away from). The hightlight of the day was cane toad racing..... what a sport this is!! T...