The last of the holiday post

Friday – Surfers Paradise

Back to Brisbane today, we packed up the apartment and the car and set off back up to Brisbane, but with a few stop offs on the way. First of all we went to Harbour town as Ralf wanted to check out the Adidas outlet store. We were a little disappointed as it was not as cheap as we were expecting. From there we drove further down the road and found the IKEA store which I had been dying to check one out forever. What a massive store, and I do believe that if we lived in Brisbane I would out fit our whole house with all the wonderful storage things that IKEA has to offer, god it was cool. Got back to Brisbane and had lunch and then checked out the local scrapbook store just down the road from Tony and Chrissie’s place – cool, brought some more treats there!!!! Everyone except for the intelligent ones (Jade and I) went off into town to watch a game of Auzzie Rules – oh joy, apparently they all enjoyed it though, Jade and I, well we ate pizza and watched TV, far more exciting!!!

Saturday – Glasshouse Mountains & Montville

A family day out to check out the glasshouse mountains today – I have to say what beautiful scenery, but mountains? You have to be kidding, more like some very random looking hills in the middle of know where. From there we went onto Montville, a very quaint village up the top of the hill, past “bald knob”, so many and I do mean so many lots of little shops with many things to buy, so many things to buy. I loved it. And the boys were so patient while we shopped!!! Amazing!!!!

Sunday – Kallangur

A quiet day, well sort of! We finished packing making sure it was all sorted as we were leaving tomorrow. Then Chrissie, Jade, Dan and I went off to Churnside Mall and went to see Aliens vs. Monsters, which was in 3D, very cool. Then we did a little shopping in this massive mall – it was soo big!!

Monday – Fly home

Well what a long day this was, up and off to the airport by 6.30am, check in, and fly home, all with no hassles at all. Mel, Jase and Luke met us at the airport which was great to sit down with them for about an hour, which was very cool. Mel looks so much more rested now which is very cool, I do so remember those early weeks of figuring the whole baby thing out. Well that was the end of our nice holiday – from there the trip to turned to custard, and that is putting it so nicely! We got back to the truck, the battery was flat, Ralf and I could not push start the truck as it was too heavy, so we got a jump start – Yay. Then driving down the road every time Ralf put the indicator on battery was trying to stop again, the battery was beyond dead! So then it started to get darker, and rain, we pulled into the service station and there was only one battery there that fit the truck, what a great thing that was. We drove and drove and drove and finally got home around 11.15pm! Knackered! Oscar went ballistic, so happy to see us! So what did she leave for us while we were away...... a mouse, not just on the carpet, no that would be too nice, what she did was drop one down the toilet in the ensuite within a couple of days after we left, so it was huge and swollen and stinky!!!!!

Bring on the next holiday – it was the best!!!