Kate And Family

Kate, Arj and the two kids, Charli and James arrived almost right on time at 7:10pm Monday evening at Brisbane Airport.  Traffic around the airport at that time was extremely busy.  A 5 minute drive from where Trish parked now took almost 20 minutes.  But all worked out OK in the end.  A quick trip to "Maccas" on the drive up saw them arrive just after 9pm.

James had another 'cold' so was feeling a little miserable.

A bit of a play around home, a walk to the park and the playground finished with a trip to the Bakery for cake filled in Tuesday morning.

The pool was again the highlight with the kids getting into their bathers and a little play 'on the steps' which was enough for them.  The water was just too cold.  The Lego came out too and despite the top temp being only 18 degrees, as usual it was much warmer in the backyard out of the wind. The temp gauge said it was 24 in the back corner.

Charli and James made sure the pool was clean and helped me to vacuum it

Trish and the others headed to the beach for an hour or so in the afternoon which left me free to update the BeCA website following Monday's Management Committee Meeting.

After a frosty morning on Wednesday (around 6 degrees) the sun was out again.  Trish headed off to Stitchers, Kate and Arj went to Eumundi Market which left me to babysit the kids.  While they played out the front on their scooters in the sunshine I put a brew on.  Then it was time to jump on the scooters and back to the park (and the bakery) again.  James was feeling the pinch a little after the trip to the playground and the bakery so he adjourned to Mum and Dad's bedroom for a lie down and to watch cartoons which I was able to stream over the wireless network to the 32" TV there.

Charli has requested two sheets of paper so she can draw in the lounge room.  She is singing away to herself while James tries not to fall asleep while watching the cartoons lying on the double bed in the spare room.  I could do with a little lie down myself!  Pretty tough work keeping up with two little ones on scooters at my age.

Needless to say there hasn't been a bike ride yet as I am kept busy 'acquiring cartoons' to watch.