Our Long Weekend...And Long Post!!

Sorry this is a bit long...trying to get caught up with everything that's been happening.

This past weekend was another long weekend. (There's another one in June and then that's it until Christmas!!) We rented a car on Saturday and drove up the Sunshine Coast to Coolum. A cute, little town that is right on the water. Literally. The main street faces the beach. Very pretty. We met up with a couple of Darryl's coworkers and their families. We spent the day on the beach and then had a BBQ just above the beach. I definitely love how Australia has BBQ's everywhere. At the parks, beaches...you name it. Someone needs to talk to Rodney and tell him to get something like this going at home! It's a great way to get everyone out!!

The kids really enjoy the beach but I think they love the sand the best!

Time to get digging!

Breagha was so funny. She wanted water in her bucket. So, we walked down to the water, filled up a bucket, and then started back. This was as far as she made it. She sat down and started digging with her hands. She really loves the sand!! So she just hung out there on her own for a while.

Darryl and Shamus enjoying the waves. Shamus loves the water but if a wave comes crashing in on him....his out of there fast!!

Kirk and his son, Kai. And Darryl and Shamus. Kirk is from California and was a semi-pro surfer in his younger, wild days!!

Mike and Mireille hanging with their son, Jason and Breagha. Breagha and Jason enjoyed each others company and were really cute together.

I just love this picture of Breagha. Thought that Mom may like it too as she's been talking about how much Breagha's hair is growing. It's getting curly too!!

Mike and Darryl decided to go out surfing. Mike's been surfing for a few years so he was going to show Darryl the ropes. Apparently Darryl had a tough time catching a wave!! He was pretty tired when they returned! :)

After Darryl and Mike took off Shamus decided that he wanted to go with them and grabbed his Diego floaty. heeheee.... I really don't think he would of even went in the water by himself!

Darryl took this and really liked it...so I'm posting it for him!

A perfect climbing hill for the kids...the main street is just on top of the hill. With a big playground for the kids and the BBQ's.

And the sand was soooooo soft! Truly like walking in flour. Like the bag of flour that you would buy at the grocery to bake biscuits! Really, really fine.

We drove back to Brisbane that night. The next morning we decided to keep the car rental to do some shopping outside the city. That's where the good deals are suppose to be. The mall we went to was really big and I enjoyed it!!! Picked up a couple of things but not nearly done!!

Then we went over to Jeff's on Sunday afternoon for a BBQ (Scottish Jeff...he worked in Montreal then moved here last year). Jeff is an amazing cook and treated us all to a Mexican BBQ. Very good!!!

Monday was the holiday and another BBQ!! Yeah, lots of BBQ's. This one was at New Farm Park. So, the kids did some playing before we ate. A good time!!

The boys played some soccer at the park before we headed over to the BBQ. Shamus is starting to really enjoy his sports.

And he attempted some tree climbing...

And so did his shadow. Anything that he does, she has to do it too!! And yes, Breagha was filthy. She gets so dirty at the park...and just finished eating!

A long day! He didn't want to nap but couldn't last any longer!!