Caroline & Phills (AKA AL's) arrival

View from the surfclub

Caroline & Phill visited us in August for almost 2 weeks we had a lovely time. We did lots & lots of things, so here go's. The first week they were here we both had to work but the second week we had off so we could go to a few places with them.

The first weekend we had a BBQ & had Andy, Ade, Loz, Will, Anita, Grant, Holly, Jayce, Pat & Chris over & Me & Ian were the chief hosts!!!. Think Anita, Grant , Pat, Chris...well all of them were nervous as me & Ian as most of you know cannot organise a P*ss up in a brewery, but all went to plan & everyone got fed & watered.

Towards the end of the evening, after most were merry we had a bit of a dance floor going on, and Ian decided to up the anti & flex some of his break dancing moves. In the process of him leaping into a handstand he kicked Caz in the face firing her into the wall whereby she then collapsed in a heap on the floor!!!!. Ian was none the wiser as he was still performing what could only be described as some sort of epileptic fit like moves!!!!..while his sister was nursing a sore cheek. Caroline could not believe there was not a hole in the paper thin walls, bearing in mind how hard she hit it!!!...therefore Phill decided to put his fist through one!!!!!....Therefore we had a hole in the newly finished rental of 6 weeks!!!....Sweet. Ian fixed it by putting a Dora the explorer poster over it for the 2 weeks unti l Grant sorted it for us!!!. You certainly know how to leave your mark Phillis.

Sunday- Everyone had a hangover, but Ian had arranged for them to go see the Brisbane Broncos play (Rugby sorry Football as they call it here) at the Suncorp stadium. They all had a good time...especially Ian who spent most of the time watching a young female ride around on a horse. Strangely Ian wants me to buy a horse & some cowboy boots??...mmm I wonder why?.
Monday- We went to Brisbane City centre, went to Southbank & had a pic-nic near the river, then Caz & Phill went to buy their compulsory tourist stuff at the shops.

Tuesday-We visted Movieworld went on all the scary rides, as the last time we went we had Megan so we could'nt. So as we were still paying for Kindy we put Megan in kindy & off we went..mean parents are'nt we!.

Wednesday-We visited redcliffe which is a little bay about half an hour away. We packed up a BBQ & Andy & Ades cricket bats & off we went for a fun afternoon.

Thursday-We visited Wet n Wild, which was fab lots of scary slides but alot of fun. We made the fatal error of getting in the hot whirl pools at about 2.30pm & could not get out to go on anymore slides. As the weather was still nice but the water was still cool!. We then took Phill to surfers while we were down there, sat on the beach for 10 minutes had a cuppa then went home.

Friday- We went to Maloolaba up the Sunshine Coast for the day. We took them to the surf club as it has a fab view of the sea, however when we got in there they were renovating & all we had a view of was of a MDF wall!!!..nice!. We then went to the beach which was lovely however there was a force 10 gale..which was that strong we could hardly hear each other speak in the wind. Ian & Phill decided to do a bit of bodyboarding...very unsuccessfully they did'nt catch one wave. After about 10 mins of them being in the sea the lifeguard came over to me & Caroline and said " they have not done this before have they?" we said "No" he said "I can tell, I've been watching them for the last 10 minutes fumble around English Idiots (no ha , ha he did'nt call them that)" he then proceeded to say that " if we had of come 2 hours before they would of been swimming in the biggest rip in the sea, which would of dragged them out 3 meters per second, under the water & deposited them about 100 meters out to sea". Quite comical really as Ian stopped at 4 different places along the beach where we all unloaded ourselves out of the car...however Ian was unhappy with each of the 4 spots & finally chose the last one, we needed Benny Hill music!!!!. Friday evening we were invited to Andy & Ades, where we had the best steak ever!!!.

Saturday- Samford Pub our old jaunt for Anitas Birthday.

Sunday- Bribie Island beach for Anitas birthday, where we had breakfast at the snack bar we were there for 8:30am a record for us..followed by a few beers, snacks & a round of cricket on the beach.

Then Monday they departed for Hervey Bay. We had a lovely time with them thankyou so much for coming to see us. During there stay we discovered that Phill has an alter ego called Alan. Please Google 2 and a half men, the american sitcom starring Charlie Sheen (no Phill isn't Charlie Sheen). Phill is Charlies brother Alan...funny!!.