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.