Just beginning To Tire Now!

It is great having Kate, Arj and family here with us. They have had a great time, swimming, eating, sleeping, walking, swimming and more eating! However the 5 am daily wake up that James goes through is just beginning to show on Trish and I now! There has been plenty of swimming etc, but not quite enough sleeping!

Most days the kids head to the beach then back home to the pool, something to eat and then James has a sleep. Charli needs a sleep but she won't give in! Charli battles the tiredness and becomes just a little irritable later in the afternoons. Kate and Arj enjoyed the movie "Australia" but were not really going overboard about it. On Saturday evening we had a meal at the RSL. Charli and James both loved the guy singing and playing the guitar.

This morning we had an ultralight aircraft fly overhead. This was something quite new for James and he was quite fixed on the strange thing in the sky for sometime. I put in an 11km bike ride this morning and just collapsed in the pool afterwards to recover. Both Arj and I were a little the worse for wear this morning. We watched the cricket on telly after our BBQ tea but we had enjoyed a few refreshing drinks during the afternoon.

Later on this morning we all headed down to the "Sea Water Pool" at King's Beach. James just loves the water and he is seen here making his own way about at the pool. Arj (below) was still feeling the effects of the previous day and took some time to relax!


As you can see there was a good surf running today. There is a "King Tide" due as well and this assisted in the seas being as big as they were. King's Beach was well packed with holiday makers enjoying the large waves. Life Savers both here on the Sunshine Coast as well as the Gold Coast to the south have been kept busy rescuing unsuspecting swimmers who get caught in 'rips' and get carried out to sea.

As most of you know, I download movies off the internet then burn them to a DVD disk and we watch them whenever we want. Recently there have been some great movies to download and we have been busy watching them. Most of them are no where near DVD quality but most are quite watchable. I saw this unit (left) advertised recently in a catalog. It is a WD TV HD Media Player. I had a 'spare' 160Gb external hard disk drive sitting in the cupboard. It can be loaded up with movies (straight off the internet), photos and music and then it is plugged straight into the Media Player. The Media Player is then connected to my AV Receiver and everything can be played back over the TV. The photos look just fantastic, the movies are as good in quality as when I get them off the net and it is great having much of my music readily available for playback. The unit measure about 4" x 4" and is a very nifty addition to our entertainment setup.