Island Beach Resort Broadbeach

... was okay - the kids enjoyed the music and the characters, and saw a 4D movie which had the boys reaching out to the screen trying to touch everything coming out to them. The boys loved the rollercoasters and the other rides. Plus all the other animal displays - aquarium, shark bay, rays, polar bears, penguins, dolphons, turtles etc. Was disappointing to find out the Skiing show which I liked so much ...

... gehen, wurden wir aber von Diego noch auf eine Spanisch-Party eingeladen. Die war zugegebenermaßen etwas schräg, alle war tierisch abgefüllt und vereinzelt hat man auch mal ein paar Deutsche getroffen. Sabrina ist das Auto gefahren, weil der Mitbewohner von Diego auch betrunken war. Oh je oh je.. Zurück haben wir dann ein Taxi genommen, war ja aber dann alles okay. Sonntag haben wir dann Diego kurz in seinem Shop besucht, in dem er noch gejobbt hat, haben einen kostenlosen ...

Today, we got up late (we went out dancing the night before and stayed out quite late...we needed the rest) and wandered around the city a bit. We layed out on the warm, sunny beach, something I haven't done in months, and watched the amazing surfers take to the air on the massive waves. My fading tan came back a bit, but I must say the weather in Perth lately has been freezing (as in 50-60 degrees F, so freezing by Aussie standards) so my tan is pretty much gone. Too bad, I was quite ...

... pool to put our towels on. Dad then headed over to the newer rides with the kids before they started to fill up while mum and I headed to get a locker to put our phones and wallets in. Getting the locker ended up being harder than we thought. We thought you had to find an open locker, put your stuff in and then set the code - turns out you had to do it the other way. Eventually we were able to find some help so move our stuff into the right locker. Once we ...

... go to a Neighbours cast night etc etc Then roughly 9th April fly into Perth.. meet Katie there, get a house share/apartment and job/s. Save enough $$ in Perth to do the west coast up to Darwin (either by renting a campervan or by coach tour) Then fly from Darwin to Singapore and spend 3 months travelling around Asia Then.... Home. Just in time for Christmas. We'll see how much that changes in the next month or so!!! For now though, I am off to stay with Stef in Dr Doolittle's ...

... to decide which theme parks we wanted to visit as we wanted a combined pass to two parks and the parks are run by different companies. In the end we decided on Warner Bros Movie World and Wet 'n' Wild waterpark and paid before exploring the rest of Surfer's. We waited until the morning to decide which park to visit first, deciding on Movie World as the sky was quite overcast. At Movie World there were six main rides and ...

We sleep later than planned but we eventually get up and it's back up the Gold Coast Highway again, this time to Wet n Wild Water Park. Yesterday was my first time on a rollercoaster, today it's my first time at a water park. Just like Warner Brothers yesterday, we realise we picked a great time to come. As it's winter and mid-week everything is quiet making it really easy to get onto rides. The park is huge with around 20 rides, some hot springs, a giant wave pool ...

Well..Surfers was our next stop up the coast, goodness knows we needed a break after surfing, our bodies felt like they had gone through a boxing match with Mike Tyson!!! The first night in surfers was an organized club crawl for all backpackers, so we thought we would join in the fun! We had pre drinks at the hostel and then all piled into a bus to ...

... weather is warm, but not too hot, but at night it is absolutely freezing! We went to a local club on what was a student night and it was so simular to any club you could find back home in Britain in terms of the music, drink prices and attitude! For food, most days we buy groceries in and make our own to save money, but we treated ourselves to a family deal between us at Pizza Hut!!!

... dried tomato pizzas for the girls and we enjoyed the first disc of the first season (heather had never seen the show before so we had to start from the beginning...she was a deprived girl). again another lazy night but was in good company with a good show. sunday i again played event-planner and suggested we go see a rugby game. i'd been to an aussie rules football game but not a rugby league game (there's rugby league and rugby union, dont ask me to tell you the differences). so ...