Hi All I'm Back and finally snapping out of holiday mode.Here are some pics from our 3 week trip to Tallebudgera.
William killed in the fishing department, Ian was too busy pumping yabbies (gabbies as Alex calls them) to get a decent fish. William caught some fantastic fish: whiting, black bream, trumpeter. No flathead unfortunately - that's my favourite eating fish. Ugly to look at but very sweet taste.
We met some fantastic people while we were away. We have made some wonderful friends and I hope that we will see them for many years to come.
We met Terry, Laura and their kids Alex and Alicia the first week. We had some fun times and it was great as Ian had to work most of the first week. Terry and Laura live in Salisbury and hopefully we will catch up in the next little while.
Second week we met out neighbours and being in a caravan park we have loads. Next door were Rachel, Shane and Jack who turned one in January. Over from them were Rachel's mum and dad - known as Jack's Grandma and Grandad! They all live in Samford and Rachel and Shane have secured the site next to us now and Rachel's mum and dad have been on their waterfront site for 17 years!
Across from us were Graham and Christine, behind them Janelle, Steve and their kids Jay and Jess. Steve has been coming for 30 years to Tallebudgera at Christmas and about 7 sites down from us were his sister Deanne and her family - they stay for the whole 7 weeks of holidays.
Next door but one we met some wonderful friends - Warren, Andrea, Joseph (8) and Anna (5 and three quarters - as she tells us). They live in Gladstone and we are hopefully having a week in Woodgate with them in September/October school holidays. They were such fantastic people and we are looking forward to many January's together. The pictures are taken with Warren and Andrea's boat and tube. Many an hour was spent with them. Next door to Andrea & Waz are her parents Shirley and Ken - lovely people who made our kids feel like their own. Across from them were the PB's - Steve, Karen, Kate and Nick. Karen is a teacher at Prince of Peace Lutheran College in Everton Park and has known our friend Lisa Harris for about 20 years.
Next to them where Al & Bev who taught us all how to play SCUM!! Fantastic card game where you have to change places according to how you win the hands. You can have up to 8 players and there is 4 main positions - King, Queen, Lowlife and Scumbag. I can't wait to play it again - I will have to teach some friends so we can have a few games.
Ian's mum and dad came down for the day with Liam and Eloise. Liam and William spent most of the time in the kayak paddling around and Eloise and Alexandra had fun on the boogie boards in the swimming enclosure.
My mum and dad came for a day too. Mum unfortunately was suffering from neuralgia so rested in the van and read some mags. I got to spend some quiet time with her which was good. After the 3rd lot of pain killers started to work we went for a walk. Dad took William for a walk to try and find the site that we used to come to when I was small. That site was near the playground closer to the highway. I also went kayaking that first day and loved it. When Dad was watching me he was taking a picture and yelled out "Slow down Trish you're a blur". Smarty pants!!!!!
We came back on Jan 22 to go to the Police Concert Brisbane this link is to a youtube of "Don't stand so close to me". Fiction Plane (Sting's son's band) and Fergie supported them. Fiction Plane were fantastic. Ian's fav was Fergie I think although she got a bollocking from the media.
Then we were back in the land of the living on 25 January.
We kids have settled into school now Will is in Turquoise (4/5) and has a new teacher and she is lovely. Alexandra is still in the same class (Yellow 1/2).
More Soon
Kisses Trish xxx
