We had such a fabulous time!! I'm in love with Ricky's bike!! If you're a facebook friend of mine I've put some photos of our holiday up. I took over 350 (don't worry, there was no way I'd bore people with that many random shots - about 40 of them are motorbike related!)
We spent our first day and a half in Manly with Rick and Shani, mostly just catching up :)
And then we went to Brisbane - that's a story in itself!! What an adventure! With arrangements to stay with my little sister Hannah, and her partner Antz, we were greeted at the airport with "There's been a slight change of plans, we're homeless now". Great! Hmmmmm, what was I going to wear!? If that sounds random its because we'd booked cheap flights to Brisbane with carry on luggage only, which would be fine except that I'd only packed underwear because my allowance was taken up by some photo tiles I was bringing over for Hannah, and my handbag. Our other bag was packed with Dave's clothes. Oh well, at least I had the clothes I was wearing. We drove around for ages looking for somewhere to stay but all the places we found were fully booked "Don't you know there's a big bowling tournament on?" Um no! Obviously not! And "That big Church conference is happening this weekend." Sure, I knew that. Not. Eventually we found somewhere not too far away but it was a bit dodgy. There was one room with two double beds pretty much end to end. They only had vacancy for one night but at least we had somewhere to sleep! We spent most of the following day looking for another place to stay. We ended up driving for miles after finding a place on the internet. Again most places were fully booked so we were prepared to compromise on comfort a bit. We did not expect to walk in to a room with one double bed!! Where's the rest? It said 'sleeps 4'. We pulled a handle on the wall and a creaky smelly single bed folded out. Funnily enough, on the other wall was another folded up single bed. The bathroom was so scungy not even the boys would go in without jandals on!!
Aside from our accomodation dramas (by the Monday Hannah and Antz had found somewhere to move into - they had to buy airbeds though so we had something to sleep on!) we had a wonderful time and it was great seeing them again. Life is always full of laughs when my little sister is around :)
I got to go for a ride with Nikki (my old NZ eventing buddy) which I haven't done since she moved over with her horse in January. That was awesome, aside from being sickeningly hot! It was wonderful seeing how settled and happy she is, and how her horse is thriving over there! He's going better than I've ever seen him go!
Back to Sydney on the Tuesday afternoon and out for dinner down at Manly wharf. There's little baby penguins nesting there - soooo cute! We weren't allowed to take photos though.
We had such an awesome time with all of Dave's family. He's so much like his Dad! Same mannerisms and everything, but in saying that Ricky kind of reminded me of my Dad too :) Have I mentioned the bike? I looooove it!
Shani taught us how to play Skipbo and we had fun playing this several times during our stay. Really great time waster :)
We caught up with Glenda's sister Sandra and her daughter Sheree. They're so much fun. Sheree's gorgeous son Hunter entertained us with his animal impressions and just his general cuteness! He talks sooooo much. I didn't want to put beautiful baby Anya down - she's so tiny she could easily have fit into my hand luggage lol.
We also got to see my friend from high school who's been living in Sydney for the past few years and ate kangaroo!
I could write pages and pages about our stay in Sydney but I won't. We had the best time ever and are already looking forward to going back at the beginning of April for Sheree's wedding.
When the time finally came to say goodbye we put it off as long as we could (just under 20 minutes before our flight was due to leave lol). We rushed through the other side and everything was empty. It was so weird! They were waiting for us and everyone was already seated on the plane by the time we got on. Whoops! Probably just as well we didn't leave it any longer :)
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