Dreamworld

We decided to take another trip to the Gold Coast and visit Aunty Angie and Uncle Jamie and cousin Sophie for the long weekend. However our trip was decidedly different this time around. Firstly, Ela got really ill - came down with a really high fever which turned out to be tonsillitis. Poor love spent most of the weekend on the sofa watching movies and taking antibiotics.
Secondly, the weather wasn't great. It was cloudy and overcast the forst few days and then sunny but quite cold after that. So there wasn't much swimming happening. Tom loved splashing about in the water but of course hated getting out. Mark and I got our laps in every day and he even sdid some running but there was no lazing by the pool sipping cocktails and reading books :)
We did venture to the beach too, but again it was short and sweet. The kids got their face painted one day and we enjoyed a local markets and music festival.

But the highlight of the trip was our visit to Dreamworld. Its only half an hour drive from the apartment, and it was pretty quiet as it was low season. We headed straight to Wiggles world and the kids went on Dorothy's rosey tea-cup ride, the Big Red Car ride through the Wiggles house and played on Captain Feathersword's ship.

Then we headed to the wildlife area to see Koalas, Kangaroos and Crocodiles. Tom was a little hesitant at first but soon got his shoes off and started patting the Roo!  After lunch Ela started to deteriorate again and Tom was getting ferral so we headed back home. But it was certainly a day to remember.

Then finally we had a few nightmares on our flight back to Sydney as it turned out to be an International flight en-route from Japan to Sydney. What should have been a few hours hop skip and a jump home turned into a four hour ordeal!