Theme Park Fun

A few weeks ago we bought ourselves annual passes to three theme parks. We spent a weekend there, visiting two of them. By far our favourite was seeing the dolphins up close and personal, followed closely by as many scarey rides as we could cram into three days. Greg wasn't that keen on the bigger rides although he did go on a few. We hope we haven't scarred him for life and he won't turn into one of those adults who tells the story about how his parents and siblings traumatised him by dragging him on the Scooby Doo Ride (He kept his eyes firmly closed the ENTIRE time).




















This one just swam right up to the childrens' hands to see what they had to offer.

Down-time on the beach in between theme parks

I think this ride is called the corkscrew, for obvious reasons. Olivia, Callum and I are clinging on for dear life in the 4th carriage.

Glad I didn't eat too much lunch before THAT ride!

Towards the end of the day Greg was turning grumpy. He was determined not to enjoy the seal show, in fact threatened to not even watch but he couldn't help taking a peek.














Halfway through the show and the seal is not the only one eating out of their hands. The slapstick humour was right up his street.

September holidays

Just back from a week's camping up the coast. We met up with Mom & Dad, my aunt, Pam, who has just turned 60, and her three sons, some of whom we hadn't seen for up to 13 years.

Camping downunder

A very intricate farm which his great-aunt helped him with

Enjoying the sunshine Boys in from an attempt at fishing

Here's the whole family at an impromptu Indian-themed birthday dinner

Mel & Rob - what can I say?3 not-so little Indians

Our MC Moonsamy, also shaker of the dice during a rowdy game of Cranium

Pam enjoying the 'exploding' flower on yet another birthday cake. We seemed to have one every day, thanks to Mom. Greg gets aquainted with Rob as they work on some art togetherLand of stunning sunsets...and probably sunrises, but we don't see too many of them

A family get-together at a local park

Some tall genes in our family

Olivia with cousin Jens

Sometimes we ARE in town

Cal after getting 2nd place in backstroke at the school carnival.Early morning musings About to go to the Virgin Hangar Ball
having our own ball at home
They really are quite fond of each other

The boys in blue

What shall we do with our day?

We could follow the example of Millie & Pringles...and not do much

Or we could do boy stuff

The Green Tangerine

We received our annual invite to this unique Restaurant. This year the theme was Summer Beach. Here are the delightful wait-staff and some of their patrons.

We tried to capture the sunset on our new projector screen.

Cocktails and starters were served on 'the beach' in front of the sunset screen!

A pirate life for us

So nice to see them all playing together. A rare moment.

Chilling out with Millie

Meeting the cousins

Kelly, Hannah, Olivia, Adam, Callum Gregory

Greg and Adam (5) meet for the first time