This morning Chris's parents flew into Brisbane, rented a car, and met us at the University of the Sunshine Coast. First we showed them the kangaroos then we took them to Mooloolaba to show them the ocean and grab something to eat at the Hog's Breath cafe. Here I learned that there is no ketchup, only tomato sauce. It's a lot thicker than American ketchup. After some debate about what to do we decided to first walk around the area a little to look at a few mansions, and then drive over to the Glass House Mountains. *These mountains were formed as molten lava cooled to form hard rock in the cores of volcanoes between 26-27 million years ago. The source of the lava was from the East Australia hotspot. The surrounding softer rocks have been
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