Tuesday ......

Our visitors have packed and are getting ready to head to the Sunshine Coast Airport to travel back to Melbourne today. Monday saw them spend the early part of the day at Mooloolaba, about 15 minutes north of us here. The morning was spent visiting Point Cartwright for a photo shoot, having a quick look at the Mooloolaba shops and then to the surf beach for a swim.

This photo above (taken from Point Cartwright) looks over Mooloolaba and its beach. It is a very pretty spot and very popular with interstate and local tourists.


The photo above shows Emily discovering the pleasures of the sand at Mooloolaba beach. After arriving back home from Mooloolaba, there was time for yet another swim in the pool.

Despite the two kids being totally exhausted we had our final 'dinner' at a local Thai restaurant. Everyone enjoyed the food and Andrew ate enough to be considered an 'adult'! We hopped in the car to drive home to bed. Less than 500m down the road Emily was sound asleep!

After a sleep in Tuesday, there was time for one last swim in the pool before packing the bags and heading off to the airport! It was a busy but enjoyable time hosting Chris, Wendy Andrew and Emily over the last fortnight. It was a perfect chance for us (as grandparents) to get to know our grandchildren better and for them to get to know us.

I think they enjoyed themselves very much!

In my January 11 blog post I mentioned an expensive blow up pool chair had developed a leak. I contacted the manufacturer in the USA to seek help on repairing it and was told they could not be repaired but that they would replace it for me. The new chair arrived from the USA today, flown over by airmail. Pretty good service I reckon!