Nathan & Joanna's Australian Adventures

23-28.12 Christmas in Queensland

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Christmas is the perfect time to get some baking done! Grace very kindly lent me her personal protective equipment to produce a batch of scones!

Christmas Eve and Grace thought that she'd keep an eye out for Santa!

The excitement builds as everyone picks a pressie for a 'feel & guess'!

Christmas Day and the dressing up begins! The Brisbane Broncos & Fairies being the favorites!

There is always one who forgets where to correctly place those parts that you're unable to eat!

We're having a proper roast bird in hot & humid Brisbane, it's feeling more like Christmas now!!

Sharing a Christmas kiss before being served - host rules apparently!

Noosa beach packed with people enjoying the sunshine!

The view from Loo with a View, down the 'coast!

When in Oz do what the Australian's do! Although this should be on water!

At Daisy Hill Koala Santuary, with a Koala sitting in a tree. S-L-E-E-P-I-N-G! This is the start of the magical mystery tour!

Going to have to try and hide better than that everyone!!

Just to prove that Rew & Cez were actually there - under the Surfers Paradise sign!

Cez & Pez on the magical mystery tour bus!

Sorry Rew, but I had to include this, but I think we all felt a little like at the end of the day!

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23.03 Easter Sunday Big Day Out

A slightly earlier start was had on Easter morning, as the easter bunny had delivered a large number of eggs and someone was very excited! It wasn't me by the way!! In fact, there were so many eggs that Gracie started on hers at breakfast time!

Gracie enjoying some chocolate for breakfast!

Then it was time for the Mystery Tour & Picnic organised by Deidre and driven by Roger.

Everyone gets ready to pile into the taxi for the Leach's Mystery Tour!

What better is there to transport ten people on a mystery tour?! An orderly queue forms as people find their seats in the maxi-taxi, luckily the meter didn't start until we started moving!

First Stop: Warrego Vineyard for a quick drink!

Arden in front of the wine barrels at Warrego Wines

The first stop on our tour was at the Warrego Vineyard for a quick tasting/tea/coffee, a toilet stop & a bit of a run around!

Spring Bluff was our destination to de-camp and tuck into the delicious picnic! Although the station itself isn't in use, the track is. To prove this a massive goods train came through!

Nathan, Pat & Dix just about to dig in to an amazing picnic!

Dan & Roger give the trip the 'thumbs up', or are they trying to hitch a lift?!

Dan, Rog with Sam about to prepare a nice brew!

Arden enjoying the open space and working off the massive plate of food he had!

Everyone having a relaxing time at Spring Bluff! Mean while the meter is still running...

From Spring Bluff we headed to Toowoomba, for some spectacular views!

The clouds close in on Toowoomba, and our mystery tour!

Arden is looking quite innocent here, but unknown to his Pops (Roger) he's just created a diversion so the rest of us can escape from the $800 fare!! Cheers Arden!! Poor Rog, he's still trawling for these passengers through CCTV! Best of luck though, lets hope that you get those mongrels!

Wow! That brought a happy end to thirteen months of living / working / travelling in Australia and what a great way to conclude by spending our last week with the Coys!! We had such a brilliant time! Find our post about the move from Austrailia to New Zealand here!

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22.03 Dockside Comedy Bar

Sam & Dan very kindly treated us to some adult time (as paper cuts were increasing at an alarming rate) at the Dockside Comedy Club in Brisbane! Sam thought it would be a great idea to pipe up after the compere had asked a question to the floor, which resulted in references about me being posh(?!) & english for most the night! Sam did say that it was better that way than saying we were from Melbourne!?

Sam's just too busy to participate in this 'Going Asian', so Dan lends a hand!

Nathan & Sam at the table, working our way through a jug of beer and some hot chips!

It was a superb night and we had a lot of fun! And thank you Dix for the lift to & from the Club!

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21.03 Good Friday on the Gold Coast

So from Melbourne we flew to Brisbane to spend our final week in Australia with Sam, Dan, Adren & Grace!

Uncle Nath multi-tasking with Grace & Arden

Bonding with the children. Gracie looks on as I prepare a paper aeroplane (single handed) for Arden!

Good Friday was spent with the Coy's & Leach's on the Gold Coast!