Final Visit to RiverStink (Riverlink)

This is Riverlink the nearly shopiung centre to Rosewood, its probably about the same size as Churchill Square but has more shops inside it aswell as a massive food court. 

Before all of this i got to drive Kens 4 litre V6 Ford Falcon, oh my did it go.  I couldnt give it the beans because i had passengers and baby Haiden in the car, but i gave it some welly on the straight.  It just kept on going and pulling faster, thsi was deffinately the highlight of the day for me. Before we went to riverlink  we went to i cant remember the name of it now, but anyway it was just like walking into Dunelm Mill, you had you fabric section which was absolutly massive, no a frames though just laid one on top of the other on shelves.  This is where i picked up 10 xmas decorations for $2.  

Just before getting to riverlink, Kylie spotted a cup cake shop that we just had to go in.  So we did, and mum got us a cip cake of our choosing, you had lemon, rocky road, strawberry, oreo, kids ones and more.  I choose to have a malteser one, the maltesers on top were minging but the cake itself was nice.

You would never have known it was there unless you saw the small sign out the front.  This shop was with about 10 other shops buried inside an old flour mill.  It was from there we went to riverlink, and today was the day i was going to have the kebab wrap for lunch.  I had been eyeing up this bad boy since my first visit and today knowing how much money i have available to spend i thought i'd slpah out, it was only $8.00 so about a fiver. 

Then it was time for some stupid retail therapy for mum, Kylie and Haiden... which left me and Ken wandering around aimlessly like little sheep.  But it wasnt a problem because i left them to it and decided to have a wander around myself, so i went to look in target, and in there i found my first present, mini golf for the Wii a bargain at just $15, from there i went to wollies and got a few little bits to take home (i cant disclose these because there a surprise for Johnson for when i get home), urmmmmm then i went to JB's (no not you mr briggs) but an electronic store that did everything gadget and peripherals.  I could have spent hours in there, but couldnt be too long i didnt have a phone and didnt wanna get lost from them. 

As we were coming out, i went into the toy store, and got my final present.  Its really nice and get hours of fun with it.  While i was in there the others decided to just piss off, didnt tell me where they were going or anything, so good job i just used common sense and went back to the car where they were loading the car.

A great day out and god loads of things, spent far to much money but i dont care i'm on holiday !!!!

the next and probably last entry on here will be of my trip to Surfers Paradise that were doing Saturday, so i will keep you posted and upload some piccies

Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary

We got to lone pine, which was under water by the floods about 6 weeks ago.  Should have been $30 to get in but the joys of a NUS card meant i got in for just $24, that extra $6 paid for lunch and a magnum.

Looking at the show schedule and that, it was time for the Rainbow Lorikeet feeding, these are wild birds that come from all over to get feed at the same times every day.  You didnt have to pay for the feed which was good, and you could get really up close to them.

After the feeding of the birds we headed into the Kangeroo enclosure where you can just walk around with them, there quite tame and used to us so you could get really close and stroke them.  Ken went off to but some bags of feed pellets for $1 each.  Time for the roo feeding to begin, i was very anxious but got stuck in, as soon as one came over you would find that 2 or 3 would come over wanted a bit.  The sensation was weird because for such big animals they are very gentle when taking the foot from you.  It wasnt til mum was feeding the roos that i went over, and what must have been the biggest one wanted to have something to eat.  Mum chickened out and left me to feed it, all was going so well until one of the baby kangas came over and put the big ones nose out.  The big one boxed it in the nose clawing it, but whose hand was in the way? Mine, and with that i got 2 massive claw marks down my arm.

It was on that note that we decided to leave but as we were leaving mum spotted a ro with its joey in the pouch, so we hung around trying to feed the mother.  In the end the joey came out you can see the video of it here.

We then went past the Wombats, fresh water crocs and the Koalas.  It was time to decide what photo i wanted to have taken.  I couldnt really decide as they had 10 different packages ranging from the single photo through to the photo pass which i ended up getting.  For that you got 3 photos with the animals, you could either have the Koala, Crocodile, Snake, Owl or Eagle.  I choose the Croc, Eagle and Koala. 

From here we went to watch the brids of prey show, sheep dog show (inc sheering) the snake and koala show.  I must admit this was the best day of the holiday so far, although i spend a fortuine on the photos and that it was so deffinately worth it !!!

Wet 'n' Wild

What a day, i was looking forward to this day more than any other so far.  There was Ken saying he was looking forward to it because me and him could do the wave pool and that, but oh no i had bigger plans.  He was worried about keeping up with the girls (Abbie and Skhy) but it was me he needed to keep up with.  I wanted to go on everything that was open, unfortunately the ride i wanted to go on was closed (see picture).

Never mind though, there was plent of other rides to go on, so we headed to the back of the park and went on the black hole, followed by the kamakazee, oh i cant remember what came next.  But we had lunch and i wernt paying 16$ for burger and chips so i had a hot dog, she said do you want capsicum with that, so i said yeah ok.  It was red and yellow pepper, and instead of getting once sausage liek i was suppose to i was given two.  She must have liked me, lol.

After lunch was time for more rides, so we headed to the one that was sitting there all on its own.  We got all the way to the top and 86 steps later we were tld that it was closed as the converoybelt that brings the rings up wasnt working.  It could be up to half an hour they said, i wernt going back down for nothing.  So we waited and after about 15 /. 20 mintues it was working again.  The water was so cold as we had time to dry off and by this time the clouds had come over ahd was quite windy.

By this time it was getting to be about 3ish, so we went in the lazy river and then headed towards the surf rider, you didnt get wet was just a ride, you can see it below..

Before we knew it it was 4pm and we had dont everything, so we made out way back to the care and set off on the 100km drive back home.

A Day Out

We went to Wivenhoe Dam, Fernvale and Ipswich fire station.

We first of all headed to Wivenhoe dam, this dam was 12 months ago only 15% full.  But due to loads of rain and the recent flood the dam is now 200% full.  So today they were going to open the flood gates and release some of the water.  But when we got there the dam was closed, but further up you can go over the dam itself.  So we parked up (illegally) and started taking some pictures.  I'd never seen a dam before and the vast openess and volume of water was hard to take in.  In the car it took 5 minutes to cross the dam doing 60kph.

We soon left there as there was no need for us to stay, so on the way back to ipswich we stopped off in Fernvale where its regarded that this pie shop has the largest variety of pies in the whole of Australia, the menu will give you an idea of the varieties.

I had a lovely minted lamb pie, and it was strange because you wouldnt think to have minted lamb in a pie.  and for $4.50 you cant go far wrong really.  I even treated myself to a cream bum aswell, it was while eating these that Ken got a stroke of good luck, he got shat on by a bird. 

After Ken cleaned himself up we left and headed for Ipswich fire station (where Ken is the fire officer).  Personally i had never been inside a fire station so sad as it may be i was looking forward to it.  So we started off by seeing the truck that they use in case of a big bush fire, it had TV's, friedge, microwave, radios and maps of the surrounding area must have been about 50 maps so they know access roads, and buildings incase of such a fire.  We then ha a look at the normal truck, seeing the connector pipes and jaws of life etc.  After seeing the trucks and hearing the siren we went downstairs and saw the guys gym and chill out room (which had a fully stocked gym and FULL SIZED SNOOKER TABLE !!!!).  We finally finished off with seeing the training area where they practice navigating in the dark, and the BA (breathing apperatus room).

I must admit what looks quite small from the outside is decivingly big on the inside.

Caloundra for the Day

Well what a long stressful day in which tempers were high and the heat had got to everyone.

This monster 2 hour drive and 170km to Caloundra was one i don't wish to do again in a hurry, it didn't help by the fact that i felt sick for the majority of the trip.  Thank god we stopped for petrol at a BP garage, it might be me but i didn't think they had BP in OZ.  Instead of just having a Wild Bean Cafe they had a KFC and McDonald's.

We didn't eat there or stay long only so devil child could have a KFC (and still didn't eat it all).  It was only half hour later and we were there, having gone past Steve Irwin Way.  We stopped and parked up in a FREE multi storey car park, and as it was time for Haiden to have a feed everyone wanted Subway, which i was under the impression we were having KFC for lunch, nope WRONG !!!! So from there with me not feeling too good and probably throwing a strop i was in a shit mood.  We walked up the street and i saw a nice kebab shop that i was thinking about having somewhere to eat from, but then it was time to leave and go to the beach, at 1.30pm.  We had only been there an hour and hadn't seen all the shops.  It was probably me because i don't like the beach at all. 

We made our way to the beach was another car journey away, they had a salt water pool as well which was nice and warm.  So the rest of the day was spent by the beach and then finally we got a KFC for dinner, OMG that was the nicest dinner ever.  Probably because my stomach had started eating itself, lol (i know exaggeration Johnson ay).

Mums Birthday Party

Dont worry mum i wont disclose your realy age, lets just say your aging well.  Well we had loads to do today in preperation for the masses to arrive (all 24ish of them) Ken had his whole family over, brother cousins his mum and son.  Then mum had Julie and Abbies friend Skhy over, me and Kylie put all the decorations in and arround the entertainment area, and moved all the chairs and got the table from inside the garage (all in fucking 30 degree heats) it got so so hot that i had to accedentally on purpose jump in the pool to cool down.

Before we knew it we had the guests arriving, i sat there as people were coming in didnt have a clue who they were as they sat down never to be spoken to again.  It got to about 3.00pm and they all went in the pool, leaving me, Kylie, Julie, Abbie, Skhy and mum sitting around the table.  I cant remembe ror tell you what the chats were about but i remember it got to about 5.00pm and they were all out the pool and hovering around the BBQ, you all know the saying.

What i didnt understand is that you didnt eat things as they come off the BBQ, yo uhad to wait til everything had finished cooking and then eat it.  But when it actually got round to eating the food alot of it was cold anyway.  But i wernt complaining the steak was nice but wernt to sure about the BEEF sausages (not my cuppa at all).

It wasnt long after that, that it was time for the cake to be brought out, she didnt have a clue what to expect nor the photo that was ontop of it...

As yo ucan see from the facial expressions it was a huge shock to her, LMAO.  Not long after that everyone left and it was left for us to have some cake and clean up after the rabble.