Roadtrip up the Coast

After my birthday weekend I had 5 days off of work, which I decided to use as a holiday and go visit my friends that I met while working in Gympie. It's hard to believe that it has been three months since I have seen them! So I packed the car and headed North about 2 and a half hours to a lovely place called Noosa Heads Beach.



I spent one night staying with Syliva (who worked with me and Marylou with entertainment for Muster) and her family. Then the next night I stayed with Sophie and Jarryd (marketing person for the Muster), we got a pizza, some goone (boxed wine) and enjoyed a nice australian thunder storm. Next day I met up with my friend Troy (Sophie's old roommate that I met at Muster) and we took a ferry out to Double Island Point to go camping for the night with a few of his friends. We did some late night fishing...caught nothing, but it was fun! We then went to go set up our tent and it started pouring down rain! Of course, that is our luck. But once again...it was fun! Then we woke up with the sun, the guys went surfing....big waves! Just standing in the water knocked my off my feet and gave me a mouthful of sand, but Still fun! :-) It was way fun trecking through the sand along the coast with a 4-wheele drive. I can't wait to go check out Fraser Island and do the same there!! Once we got back I met up with Joe (who I stayed with in Gympie) and we got some fish and chips and went to Noosa Heads Beach and got some cocktails and just caught up with each other! I also had a friend from Brissy who was working in Noosa for the week and staying in a Condo with an awesome swimming pool that I used just about every day. So the last night Joe and I met up with him and a work friend to go to a Kareoke bar where the guys entertained us singing...Lean on me. :-)



Now I am back at the house in Burleigh...back to work! I'll be very busy for the next month working. John (the guy I am house sitting for in Melbourne) is here visiting with his girlfriend, Mam who is from Thailand and she is making us an authentic Thai meal as we speak! I have been trying to learn a bit of Thai while she is here. Here is one...(I'm not sure if the spelling is correct)..."Arroy Maaackma"...means very delicious and the longer you hold out the maaaaaackma, the more delicious you are saying the food is. Yummm!

**Photos coming soon**

A house Full of Visitors!!

It has been so nice to have people visiting for the past week! Last weekend I had a very full house with my friends Robert and Paige visiting from California and also my friends Sara and Jess from Sydney and Jess's friend from the Gold Coast. It was such a great change from and silent house and I loved every minute of it! I was able to get the entire time off of work so I could boodle and do all the touristy things while everyone was here. :-)

Saturday night we decided to make a trip up to Surfer's Paradise for a Pub Crawl, which was actually more like a Club Crawl....so fun! I have been craving some dancing and I sure did get my fix. The next day we met up with a friend of Paige's who happen to live very close to me...actually at the same beach where I work! She was nice enough to take us around and go site seeing. She also took Robert and Paige out surfing and let them use her boards and made us dinner! So hospitable.

We also spent a day up at Byron Bay and the Burleigh Heads Lookout and then spent a day at David Fleay's Wildlife Conservatory where I met my first koala! This is a very condensed version of everything that we actually did...I'm just making a long story short. Their time spent here just flew by so quickly! Robert and Paige flew to Sydney at the end of the week and spent a few days checking out the city and visiting Sara who was able to show them around. Things worked out so beautifully! I can't wait for them to visit again. :-)

Since I was so appreciative of having all that time off of work, I didn't even think about saying no when they asked me to work a double on my birthday...plus, I couldn't refuse the money. I've never been a big fan of big birthday celebrations anyways. I was pleasantly surprised with flowers and cupcakes when I arrived at work though! SO sweet!! And then the next day, several of Al and Helen's (the couple I am house sitting for) friends had me over for a birthday bbq. Good food and Good company...now that is my idea of a good birthday celebration! And how cool is it that for a moment in time me and my sister shared the same birthday! (Tara's birthday is Nov.15 and mine in Nov. 14, but with the time difference when it was my birthday in America it was Tara's here! cool hey)