Update on activities

An unimpressed Ellen - she had just fallen backwards into the garden before this photo!

Slow down!!!!!!

Another day in paradise...

We're continuing our tourist activities this week, although not quite at the same pace as last - Dee did point out to me that I had told her we would have a quiet few days to start off with to help her get over the jet lag...ooops! She was fine though and hasn't had any problems - thankfully!
Last Friday we girls headed for the Big Pineapple (now there's a blast from the past!) where sadly, the highlight for the girls was playing on the coin operated things inside (without any coins) - it seems very rundown compared to my previous visits, although it appears that they plan to rejuvenate it.

Saturday we headed north to Noosa and enjoyed walking through the national park and paddling our feet on one of the beaches - it was the most glorious day, only marred by the fact that there were thousands of flies there - I've never known it to be like that before! Still, we did enjoy our time there and meandered our way down the coast to home. Had a fish'n chip dinner at Moffats that night and ran into friends with their kids also enjoying the 'pirate' playground.

Sunday we headed down to Brisbane for Greg to fly out to Cairns for his work conference and we girls to Church with Nanna, where Olivia again made an impression by knocking a hot cup of tea all over Mum's best friend Barbara's leg - sorry Barb! Thankfully there was no lasting damage for any party involved - although Barb's initial scream probably deafened a few nearby!!
That afternoon we enjoyed a great time catching up with everyone at Amelie's 2nd birthday party - I'm sorry that I forgot my camera to capture some of the occasion, but it was a fantastic party - great job Cath!

Monday was a day in Brisbane, shopping for an elusive book for Dee and enjoying the northside on a brilliant day - of course swimming and so on played a part as well. The highlight for the girls would definitely have been visiting 'Louis' - Bruce and Gillian's pet dog, who is all Ellen could talk about on the way over there...oh and playing with Declan on the trampoline would rank up there somewhere too.

Tuesday Dee, Olivia and I walked the bustling streets of downtown Caloundra and then on Wednesday we headed up to the Eumundi markets, which were great! So much there that I'm sure we missed a fair amount. Didn't really buy much, but had a great time browsing and playing in the playground in the middle of it all with Olivia. Tomorrow is hopefully the Glass House Mountains and Mary Cairncross Park, although we'll see how the weather is...