Another Candy Giveaway

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Puffing Billy

Yesterday was our first full day in Melbourne and we decided to take the kids on a ride on Puffing Billy up to Emerald Lake. Puffing Billy is a lovely old steam train with open air carriages. As you can see from the photos, the kids, along with just about every other child and adult on the train can sit on the window ledges with their legs outside the window and hang onto the railings. I was a bit nervous about this on the way up the ranges but was a little more relaxed about it on the way back down.
The bushland up in the Dandenong Ranges is just beautiful and extremely steep. The Lake area at the top is lovely too with a beautiful picnic area up there.
This is definitely something I would do again on other trips to Melbourne with the kids.



Late yesterday afternoon, when we got home from the train, we drove down to the southern side of Phillip Island to see the Fairy Penguins come ashore to their burrows. It was about a 2 hour drive down there and back, so it was a very long trip for the sake of about an hour of seeing the penguins, but it was worth it when a little penguin actually walked right under the boardwalk at our feet. The kids thought that was pretty cool. Unfortunately I don't have any photos to record this because cameras are prohibited down there. Because the penguins are still wild, the effect of camera flashes frightens them.
The crowd of people down there was incredibly large and very difficult to walk back to the top of the dunes with the kids and not lose them in the crowd in the dark. Even Desmond, who goes there quite often has never seen a crowd there quite like that.
That's it for me tonight, but I'll be back again in a day or so.

CANDY GIVE AWAY

Jump on over and have a look at this great Candy Giveaway offer. It is awesome!
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• 7 Rub-on Sheets
• 1 Basic Grey Euphoria Acrylic Stamp Set
• 1 Basic Grey Ganola Set of Brads
• 1 Packet Paper Clipz
• 3 ColorBox Fluid Chalk Ink Pads
• 1 American Traditional Designs Decorative Large Round Brads
• 1 Packet 7Gypsies Jumbo Photo Turns
• 1 Packet Chiswick Mini Round Brads
• 1 Packet with 12 Bazzil Flowers
• 1 Packet Imagine That Fabric Bows
• 1 Packet Imagine That Fabric Flowers

Wednesday 8th April

Today I had a lovely "Girls Day Out" with my Aunty. She kept introducing me to all the shopkeepers as her little sister. I managed to buy mayself a pr of long pants and 2 new tops. I really want a new pair of shoes too but think I might wait until we get to Melbourne for that. It was really hard not to buy stuff for the kids all day, but DH told me that it was a day just for me. We had coffee bfore and after we shopped and had lunch as well. Oh, what a life!!!!

Anyway, while I was doing that, the kids swam at the resort, then DH took them to McDonalds for lunch and then for a walk on the beach.

When I got home, we went to the Mooloolaba Surf Club for dinner. That was lovely. It is built out over the beach and they have spotlights on the beach lighting up the surf. It was a really nice atmosphere. There was a lot of people out walking on the beach under the lights.

Bubbles, Bubbles and more Bubbles........

Here are the kids enjoying the spa yesterday after swimming in the rain.

I am going shopping today. I am meeting up with my aunty (who is more like my sister) and we are going to have a 'girls day out". Really looking forward to that. I wonder if I can find anything scrappy here?

We left home on Sunday morning and arrived safely on the Sunshine Coast at about 10.30am. We went straight to the Caravan Park where we were to spend the first night and check straight and found our cabin.

It was a lovely little 2 bedroom cabin with a bathroom and kitchen facilities. Perfect!! Despite the weather being overcast and a tiny bit drizzly, of course, the kids wanted to try out the pool, so off they went. They said it was lovely because it is a heated pool.

We had to check out the following morning and then had a couple of hours to fill in before we could check in at the resort where we were booked for the rest of the week, so we went up to Buderim to visit some old friends who we haven't seen for quite a while, then we went and had fish & ships for lunch at the Mooloolaba Wharf.

Finally it was time to check in and the room we have is lovely. Overlooking the lagoon pool, it has 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, kitchen, laundry and a spa in the ensuite. (I think I might try this out later on today).

I went out late yesterday afternoon to do some grocery shopping for the week and the kids stayed at home with Rick for another swim. They were so excited, they couldn't stop giggling and sit still.

Rick cooked a lovely spaghetti bol. for dinner and then we all went for a walk around the complex.

We were all in bed nice and early - even me.

I was up at 4.30 this morning (because I went to bed so early) and Rick and the kids all woke up at about 5.30, we've had a nice early breakfast and start to the day.

Uh Oh!!!!! Rick just discovered that he can't find his new phone. We searched everywhere and suddenly he thought to check his shorts that I had just washed. Yep! It was in the pocket! Of course, it is my fault that it went through the wash! I did point out that he always leaves it on the bench top, and he told me before breakfast that his clothes needed to be washed. So, therefore, we are both at fault. Still doesn't make him any happier though - for a while. We'll just have to go to the Optus Shop and explain that we only just bought it a few days ago and if there is any chance of getting it replaced.

Oh Dear! I think that we'll both be a lot more careful with the washing in the future.

Stamp Giveaway

April Release - Four Stamp Give Away!

Pink Gem Designs are giving away these four delicious stamps, all you have to do is go look here to find out what you have to do to be in the running to win.Gotta be in to win I always say.