Struggling

After a week on the beautiful Sunshine Coast we are all struggling to get back into routine. My parents have run away to Coolum for the past couple winters. This year we found them! My younger sister who lives here in Adelaide and my elder sister and her family who live in Brisbane all got together there. We hired the wonderful house in you can see in the my last post. My eldest nephew turned 18 while we were there so it was a great to celebrate his birthday with him and he and his younger brother were very tolerant of their little cousins, even when they beat them at poker.

Actually we celebrated 4 birthdays, Sam's, my BIL's and my fathers and mine - we both celebrate ours this month. With Susan living in Brisbane, it's is not very often that the whole family is together.

While the weather for the first few days wasn't as warm as we expected, and it rained for over 24 hours solid (rain seems to visit the same places as me - perhaps I should hire myself out as a drought buster), we still had a wonderful time and the Sunshine Coast was living up to its name when we had to leave on Saturday.

Garry has already been on Wotif looking for accommodation and I was talking to my younger sister yesterday and guess what she's been doing - yep - seeing where she would like to stay next time. We all decided a week away is not long enough. Especially when my Dad rings to say that it is 25 C and it's blowing a gale here and freezing. Not fair Dad!!!

Any way enough moaning, we had a wonderful time. We visited Australia Zoo - what a wonderful place, Underwater World in Mooloolaba - also an amazing place. A great way for someone who has never dived to see what's down below. My favourite was the tropical sea cucumber - what amazing colours.



and yes both photographs are of sea cucumbers - one's feeding.

Eumundi Market was also on our itinerary where I could have spent a small fortune. We also visited Noosa for a day. I loved Noosa - we'll definitely be going back.



I was catching up on my blog reading and one of Michelle's posts struck a chord - I definitely agree there are so many more wonderful places to visit right here in Australia.