Well it was balmy hot and we were going to a mexican restaurant on double six beach. There was 11 of us in total. We were planning to leave at about 10pm to get the girls to bed and then have a couple of beers. I have never witnessed so much rain fall in such a short amount of time. Yeah, yeah I know its the rainy season but there was a huge storm with lightening and thunder. The front of the restaurant is open plan and due to the wind every one was rushing to the back of the restaurant [View Full Entry]

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Some Pictures of where we are staying [View Full Entry]

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We left my sisters to catch a plane from Brisbane at 23.45. As per normal muggins couldn't sleep. The others managed to get a few hours each. We arrived in Singapore early, 4.45 am and then sorted out some of our fly miles with Singapore air. I also needed to get some US dollars for the entry visas. I was trying to lie down to get some sleep when the gate for the plane opened. We got on the plane. I was trying to watch a film called "Stardust" which I had watched half of on the first flight. I didn't [View Full Entry]

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Well it more than exceeded expectations. Christnas day on the beach. We went shopping on Christmas eve and bought loads of food. The girls then got busy in the kitchen whilst I sat and watched. You know how it is us boys just get under there feet so its best if we just sit on the veranda with a beer! Nick, with her best Auntie intentions, told the girls to wake her up in the morning, but not before the sun came up and it was light. I don't think she quite realised that the sun came up at 4.50am!!!! Chloe [View Full Entry]

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Well we went to Byron Bay with high hopes of something different from all the other seaside towns on the east coast. We arrived a little jadded and had some food, then went hotel hunting. Very expensive place for hotels. Hence we ended up in a good budget hotel for two nights. We were very kindly awoken from our slumber at 3.30 am by the dilcet tones of a very loud Welshman. His two mates thought it would be a laugh to lock the very drunk Welshman out of their room. There followed 20 minutes of f'ing and bliding then the [View Full Entry]

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No one want's to write a blog so here are some photo's instead. [View Full Entry]

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After our short stay in Newcastle we decided to let the kids loose on Port Macquarie for three days. We arrived quite early due to the roads being better the further north we have come. It took us 5 hours to drive 250 km earlier in the week and we did the same distance in 3 hours with a toilet stop. I couldn’t work out why until Chloe pointed out the speeds that I had been doing, the hand marks in the door handle and the fact that she was white as a sheet. Oh dear, Russ was over doing it [View Full Entry]

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Newcastle...... well we were warned..... We arrived in the rain and it was grey and everything seemed shut..... we managed to find the local I site to see if we could find a hotel. Maybe we weren't looking very hard but there were very few. We ended up finding a place on the edge of town I slept for a few hours, we had dinner... we went to bed.... We have no pics... Russ asked me to add a blog... and here it is!!!!!! I have decided New Zealand has spoilt Oz for us.... The hotels are better, the people friendlier, [View Full Entry]

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We spent 2 nights in Wollongong. Mainly as we realised our cars tyres were bordering on illegal and also because the 250km drive from Bega took a lot longer than we had expected it would. We stopped at Batemans Bay on the way up for lunch, Which had a great beach, but the weather wasn't to good and we wanted to get on. There isn't alot there in fact writting this now a few days later I find it's hard to remember.... The main reason I thought we could stop there was because the map we have said it has the [View Full Entry]

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Hello Ellie here but daddy is typing. We arrived on Tuesday night had dinner and went to bed. The next day we went to watch granddad play tennis. Then we went to bed. Mummy and daddy left on Thursday to go to Melbourne. It took them 8 hours to get there. Then when they left half an hour later they came back to get Aisha’s prescription so they could get her Malaria tablets. Then we watched Anastasia again. Then, err, an hour later after we went horse racing. We were very, very bored and just before we were going to leave [View Full Entry]

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