Big Day Out!

We attempted to catch the train into the city for our BDO.

A 37 minute wait and a weekly pay later...
we got back in the car and drove.

A 20 minute drive and a free park...why wouldn't you?

We walked through Southbank and were in shock to see the massive poster of J still in the piazza!

It has to be 4+ years old now!

Off to the museum...
What a bore!


This photo is to show I am beating my fear of birds...go me!
Who cares that they are stuffed and in a glass cabinet!

Then for some real fun we headed to the science centre.

And this is a first, the boy....
FELL.ASLEEP.IN.THE.PRAM!

Swimming....Oi

We had our first swimming lesson yesterday.

Aidan loves to splash A LOT so he should be fine right?

hm.

Before the class started in was in shallow water with J having a ball.

Class starts and so to do the tears.

When it was time for the kick boards he cheered up and he was clinging on tight and did not want to let go!

He can only get better right??

Next weeks goal = no tears.

The classes are at Runcorn pool which is only a few years old. Its a small pool but the complex is nice. The pool where the lessons are is totally undercover which is great.

A Cat 5 type of send off...

Oh thats right...I have a blog.
Between cyclones and moving its hard to keep up!

The cyclone seems like a lifetime ago now but I must blog about it as it was the last bit of excitement in our Townsville adventure.

We secured the house (and of course the garden! oh and the animals to, they had to stay at home) and got the hell out of there!

Thanks to Michelle and Mark (Emma's Mum & Dad FYI!) who took us in.

I can't remember when I took these two pictures and they dont really show too much.

To be honest I was in a bit of shock and hardly took any!

On the drive home and when we did a little sight seeing (tsk tsk) I didn't even get the camera out.

The house, animals and garden were fine.
We did go without power for a few days....boy we take that for granted!!

This is one experience I never want to go through again.

I must say it was a little exciting (for lack of a better word) going through this with Michelle who is a BOM fanatic and was 36 weeks pregnant at the time!!

And on that note we say good bye Townsville!

Floods January 2011

I was in two minds about this post.

It must be done...what my family...my MUM has gone through is just unbelievable...

Looking at the pictures I am still in shock!!

This is the start of my Mum's street...

The front of Mum's house...

The back of the house...

Once the water had receded...

The lounge room...

The dining room...

This is the photo that gets me every time...

After the house had been cleaned and guttered...

Our Bubba boy and his cloth bum sums up our family after surviving this disaster!

Fiji and A

Aidan made some (= a million!) new friends!

This guy was crazy!

We were worried this one was going to kidnap him!

This was his baby sitter.

I do not know how she got the flower there but it stayed for about an hour!

Aidan was held by so many people!
It didn't matter if he was strapped to J or asleep!
They wanted to hold him, pinch him and squeeze him.
Thankfully no tears were shed however no matter how hard they tried he very rarely cracked a smile!
Not that it mattered, they were happy to see the big white boy!

Fiji and J

Its all about the gardens...

And Bunnings ;)xox

Fiji and Me.

There was only one logical thing to do in Fiji...

And then for something different, have your photo taken with 'man in skirt'

Happy First Birthday Bubba Boy!!

We celebrated Aidan's first birthday before we went on holidays.

We enjoyed his cake!

He mashed it up, had a taste and threw it on the floor then happily ate a banana.

A little unsure of the Buzz couch!

Aidan celebrated the day in Fiji.
We went out to dinner where he had cake and the restaurant staff sang happy birthday.

He isn't too good with people being loud and making a big song and dance but thankfully he didn't cry.
Phew...!

Rain Rain Rain!

Cabin fever....awesome!

This was pretty much Christmas Day at our place!

We did head out on Boxing Day...we needed to get out of the house.
On the way home a roadblock was being set up to close off one of the bridges we cross.

The boys quite clearly over it!

We did some rearranging and moved some play equipment inside.
I think Aidan had more fun during the clean and construction!