Missing Gary

Hi folks

Gary's gone to the World Masters in Sydney to play basketball for 10 days so I'm single Mum home alone but that hasn't cramped my style.

I went for a walk along the beach Saturday morning to stretch my legs (and get rid of those wine inches). I was feeling a bit sad cos Gary had gone! All of a sudden this vision of loveliness happened buy. Two gorgeous hunks, bronzed & sweaty, jogging along the beach. I thought I'd imagined it!! I was enjoying the memory of the vision as I walked home when they passed me again - bliss. Being in Oz has certainly become even more interesting :)

As Gary left Sally & Graham reappeared. They knocked on the door early Saturday morning having just got off the plane. They decided that as it was such a lovely day they would take their yacht out on the water. It was also the Opening Day for the Yacht Club so there were loads of boats racing on the water - it was fantastic. I can now see the attraction of being in a sailing club. We spent the afternoon on the boat having tea & cake, oh and then cheese & wine. The day was finished off with a Gourmet Barbecue at the Yacht Club which we gatecrashed.

Gary was grumpy that we were on the boat while he was in cloudy wet Sydney on boys trip playing basketball - I ask you?!

The weekend was lovely & warm but it's now started raining again (funny drought this). The girls are grumpy because they're in out of school club while Gary's in Sydney. Ever get that Monday feeling? Anyway only a few more days then Mum will arrive from the UK so we'll just have to do more wine tasting.

We are definitely coming back to the UK. We go walkabout in November so will only be contactable by email/ phone. We'll catch up with you all when we get back. For those of you planning to get pressies for girls - please don't worry about it. If you really want to we'll get then when we get home (our luggage is already over the limit!)

Missing you lots - big hugs to all

Geraldine xxx

The Gold Coast

Annabelle: Last week was the start of the holidays between term three and term four and we went to THE GOLD COAST, however mum couldn't go with us because she had to go to work.
We left home on Saturday the 26th of September at about 4:30am to catch our flight at 6am to go to the gold coast, when we got to the gold coast it was 28 degrees.
A few hours later after sitting in a traffic jam we got to the place we were staying, THE GRAND APARTMENTS, we had the rest of the day being lazy and going swimming in the sea and the pool.
The next day we went to SEA WORLD. It was fun, we saw the dolphin show, the sea lion, the polar bears and all the other aminals there however there wasn't any killer whales.
On Monday we went to the WARNER BROTHERS MOVIE WORLD, and went on many rides inculding the scooby doo ride and the wild wild west ride also we saw the Hollywood Stunt Driver show.
Lucy:
I'm talking about the last two days that we were in gold coast!
At about 11:00 o'clock we went to wet 'n' wild water world, there was like splash landings but bigger!! Frist me and annabelle went on the lazy river. Then all of us went in the wave pool they were giant waves! Then we went on mammoth fall it was a 8 person ride we went on it twice and when we went round a bend I mostley felt as if i was going to fall down to dad!!!
The next day we were out of the room by 10 am and we went to NSW and backthen we went in a zorb (a ball that you sit in and it has water in it and you go down a hill) then we went to the airport and flew home!!!

lucyx PS Miss you lots.