Oh, Good times!!

Ok, first I need to tell you what Shamus said tonight. It was really too funny. Sorry...I try not to write too much in my posts. I think of Jolyne in Montreal and how she hated trying to read through so much writing! But, this was quite funny.

We were having dinner tonight. Sitting at the table with the kids. And we were telling the kids that we got tickets to "Ice Age 3" and we were going with Rej and Clo next Saturday. (building up the excitement!) And telling the kids how thankful they should be that "mom and dad have money to buy them things and bring them to the movies....". All that good stuff. Trying to teach them to appreciate the value of things! :) So, then Darryl was picking on Shamus that when he got older he would have to pay for us. So, Shamus replied with, "When I get older I'll buy you a new cool mop Mom! Then you can clean Everything!!"

Lucky me! He really believed he was being thoughtful with his money!

Ok, that's all. :)

Back to the post. We took the kids to swimming lessons on Saturday and B went in the water! We were veeeeeery happy! And she did well. Got nervous a couple of times but overall... pretty good. And Shamus is moving up next week as he needs to be challenged more.

Shamus is doing super well. I like to think that swimming lessons in Australia are really good...since Australia has a rep of producing top notch swimmers! Maybe Shamus will be in the Olympics some day! Oh, so proud!

Breagha happy - I'm doing it!

Breagha not so happy - I don't like this!

Oh yeah!! Hi 5 Katie!

We were very happy with the kids swimming.

After swimming - clean up, have lunch, and off to Rej and Clo's! Clo was very generous and gave me a wondeful birthday gift. Her time!! She and Rej offered to take the kids for the night so Darryl and I could get away! Our last night "away" was 2 years ago (almost to the day) when we went to NYC. I know, some parents never get a night away. We were very thankful!!!!!

Thanks guys!

Darryl and I headed to Byron Bay for the night!

We tried out the new camera a bit but forgot about it as we drank more beer and wine! That's Darryl reading over the manual at the bar/restaurant.

We had pre dinner drinks, during dinner drinks, post dinner drinks, and back to the hotel drinks.

Not sure why we weren't hungover on Sunday morning!! We took full advantage of no kiddies waking us up!

Ok, testing out the Self Portrail option! Honestly, this camera had tons of options. It even has a LED light for macro shots. We're really happy with it. But, can't remember all the options!

We went to a yummy Thai restaurant for dinner. Darryl being dorky while I'm trying to take some nice photos. :)

Ah, good wine. We treated ourselves to a nice bottle!

Main course was great.

Oh yes, the reason for the trip. Snorkeling in Byron Bay! I love going to Byron. It's a great little town.

Getting ready!

I was worried about the water being cold but was quite nice (still wore the wetsuit!)

Right now is shark season but you usually need to be diving to see them. Nurse Sharks so they won't eat you!!

Darryl is really good at diving down deep. I like to be safe and stay on the surface!

yellow tail king fish

Julian Rocks, Byron Bay. Where all the action is. It's not far off the main beach and has some of the best diving in Australia.

A wobbegong but it's hard to see. We saw a few of them. That's the only bummer of the pictures we took. We didn't zoom in. There are about 4 underwater settings and we used the wrong one and couldn't zoom. Oh well, we'll know for next time!

Me! Being safe. Up top!

Good times! I still didn't get to see a turtle though!! I've been snorkeling so many times now and no turtles! Most of the snorkeling was in the Carribean and Central America. A couple of times now in Australia. No turtles. I think it's a myth that they swim/live in the ocean.

Sorry the post was longer than planned! Thanks for checking it out!