LASER SKIRMISH

This week Bryce was invited to celebrate his best friend's birthday with 2 other boys to play Laser Skirmish. We didn't know it, but there is a Laser Skirmish ground just up at Mt Cotton only about 10 minutes from home. It is in the bush behind the Mt Cotton Scout Camp.

I was a bit uneasy at the thought of these young boys going out into the bush in full army clothing with laser guns with the object of shooting one another, but they had fun, and that's the main thing.

When we arrived up there, there were about 80 - 100 people (adults as well as kids) registered to play and they were all split into 2 groups - Caps and Hats - and the idea was that they were opposing armys. They played 2 x 15 minute rounds (swapping ends in the middle) to start with then they had a 15 minute break, and then they went back out into the bush to play 2 x 20 minutes rounds (swapping ends in between).

It was stipulated to them all before they started that it was a NON CONTACT game and a safe game to play - just to have heaps of fun - and FUN............THEY HAD. I think Bryce will be sleeping very soundly tonight. Thank goodness, it's a Pupil-Free day tomorrow at school.

While we were up there, on a walk through the bush, we spotted this wallaby grazing under the trees. Good thing I had the camera with me!

Speaking of school, Tyler is having a Prep Transition morning at school tomorrow for an hour and a half. This is just so the kids starting Prep next year, can go along and have a taste of what to expect when they start next year and to meet all the teachers. Unfortunately, I have a really busy day at work, but Rick will be taking her to this, and hopefully, he'll take the camera too, so I'll be making another post tomorrow with pics of that for you all to see.

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What A Weekend!!

We've just had the best weekend here: -

After 8 years of being a 1-car family and spending a lot of time at home with the children while Rick was working 2 jobs, I finally have my own car again......................and here it is............

and this is what it looks like on the inside:

It's got heaps of room and is really zippy. I've had to get used to driving a manual car again, but after just 1 day back at work today, I feel as if I've never driven anything else but a manual car.

We had to go to the Gold Coast to pick it up, so while we were there we decided to take the kids to the beach to have a swim in the surf. We headed on down to Main Beach just north of Surfers Paradise, and the beach was extremely busy but the water was perfect. So clean and cool. I couldn't resist getting in for a swim myself. As you can see from the photo, the ocean had formed a 'gutter' along the beach with a small sandbar on the other side and this was perfect for the kids to swim in. Safe but still with waves and lots of current to contend with. I helped the kids walk across the gutter to get to the sanbar and the water came up to Tyler's chest at it's deepest. The kids loved jumping off the sandbar into the deep water of the gutter with the waves of the surf. We had so much fun. It was worthwhile the trip down to the coast. May have to think about doing this more regularly this summer.