Today it was back to school with the girls for assembly. With the rain pouring down outside and the Ska music playing in the hall the kids were on a high. We sat there like proud parents as Amelie and Maisie's names were announced for the 'Act of kindness' awards. The next activity on the agenda was the gym!! With Kay working there it seemed an opportunity not to be missed however 10 minutes in and Char wished she hadn't bothered with trainer Matty screaming at h...

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 ...

After an early morning Greyhound we arrived in Brisbane. With an hour or so to kill before meeting Uncle Stu we grabbed some lunch and read up on the city in Anzac Square. We were greeted by Uncle Stu "You look like two refugees!" On reflection yes we did laying on our body sized bags in the middle of town. At 3pm we went to school to surprise the girls who thought we weren't arriving until tomorrow and then spent the rest of the evening in the pool and h...

We arrived in Coffs Harbour at 5:25am and after very little sleep we jumped on the hostel bus with 3 other strangers. The driver was very informative and took us to a look out point, showing us where everything was - this was not something that we appreciated at the time! With the reception not open until 8am, we sat and got chatting to the other 3 who had arrived with us. 2 and a half hours later, we were all best friends, were sharing a room and had hired a cra...