Here it is Sunday again and time to update my blog. I've decided to try to make Sunday morning my update time each week. That way I won't fall behind like I did last year.
This week has been a really busy week for all of us and we are counting down the days until our holidays. Rick has been on nights again this week, so that in itself makes it a hard week for everybody, and I've had a few changes to my regular roster so it has been busy for me too.
On Friday, Bryce told us that he has been chosen for the final tryouts for the school indoor cricket team. We are so proud of him because he's never done anything quite like that before, and it'll be the first time representing the school if he is chosen this week. We all have our fingers crossed for him.
I haven't really done much creatively this week. Only completed last weeks card challenge which came from a sketch.

I used papers left over from Tyler's mini album to make this with some little pearls added to finish it off.
Yesterday afternoon, we decided to go for a drive to get out of the house. We went down to Coolangatta to find out where the long term parking facility is where we'll be leaving the car on Easter Sunday morning when we fly to Melbourne. From there, we drove back north along the Gold Coast Highway just taking in the sights and reminiscing from our teenage years when we were both at boarding school on the GC. There are so many 'attractions' that just don't exist anymore. One place I have never been to, but driven over a lot, was Tullebudgera Creek, so we stopped there to get out and stretch our legs. The beach there and the water was just magical - still, clean water with the surf about 1km downstream. I went down to put my feet in the water, and, of course, the kids had to do the same. Needless to say, Bryce went in up to his knees, and Tyler just ACCIDENTALLY happened to get wet right up to the hip line. "It was an accident Mummy, I didn't realize I was that far in". No swimmers, no towel and no dry clothes. When we left there to drive up to Southport, we got her to take her long pants off so that we could wring them out by hand and then secure them in the window to dry while we were driving.

Then we drove all the up to the top end of the "Glitter Strip" where we called into a small Fisherman's Co-Op and bought some fish and chips for an early dinner. We took them down to the Southport Seaway and spread the picnic rug on the ground to have our dinner while watching the boats coming along the waterway.
After dinner we went for a walk along the Southport Sand Pumping Jetty. It is a huge jetty and it was extremely windy and very cool out there. The surf was raging under us and the fishermen were in abundance on the jetty trying to catch that elusive large fish. We didn't see any while we were out there. It was a nice way to walk off dinner before coming back home.
What a lovely way to spend an afternoon.