Sat 13 October 2007 - Well good it was
the holiday that is!
What a lovely place Queensland is and we only saw a tiny piece of it!
Landed at Brisbane airport, flew with Qantas, lovely flight, excellent service!
Picked up hire car, drove down to Gold Coast, we stayed in the heart of Surfers Paradise, apartment right next to the beach.
Main down side was that they were in the process of setting up for the Indie 300 which is held at the end of Oct (or there abouts) in Surfers, every day a different road was closed for the course to be set up! Crap for traffic, which was a bit of a nightmare but cool for the photo's of the course as we drove around it each day!
Went to Dream world one day, not bad, first ride queued for ages, then it got a lot better, was bloody hot though!
Met Moneypen and girls the next day and we set Movie world alight LOL , was a brilliant day, went on all the rides (well apart from one) weather was fab!
Spent a couple of days chilling around Surfers and the beach! and then spent a day at Penny's feeding wild kookaburras by hand, and watching her koala in her tree!!!! How fab is that!!!!! Thanks again Pen, it was brilliant!
Drove up to Australia Zoo, not bad a zoo as they go, was disappointed that there was no monkeys, but they are building an enclosure for them to be added later next year (i think) the crocoseum was much smaller that on TV and not an Irwin in sight! but a good day, we enjoyed it!
Fantastic scenery from the Glass House mountains as we drove up, but wasn't impressed by Brisbane it self!, far to congested and busy for my liking!
Alan was well impressed to see the Meter Maids 3 times! and finally had his picture taken with them on the third time. (For those of you who don't know what Meter maids are, they are young 18, thin, well proportioned girls who wear skimpy bikini's to promote Surfers, they go around during the day and make sure your meter doesn't run out so you don't get a fine)
Saw so many things its hard to put it all down! It is somewhere we would consider moving to maybe at a later date, but not surfers itself, far too tourist for living there every day! (well for us anyway)
Oh and saw the fantastic views from the top of the Q1 tower!
We had brilliant weather all the time we were there with temps of 26-28 daily, day we left it was grey and chilly with rain LOL
Came back to WA to temps of 25 - 28 and beautiful sunshine LOL
We celebrated our first year in Oz whilst we were over in QLD, actually it was the day we spent with Pen and her girls at Movie world, it was a good way to celebrate, and we have some fantastic memories.
Thats about it for now, i'll update more on Kirsty's birthday, her sleepover, pool party and the rest later
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