Meeting family ☺ ☺

Well hello, I am back sort of and posting this end part of meeting some of Paul's family in the UK ☺

Said goodbye to this lovely view on the morning of our departure, after staying with Uncle Gordon who kindly put up with us for 4 nights.....Paul had not seen him in 46 years!! And I of course had never met him but have become friend via the fun of facebook  ☺☺

There is Gordon, graciously driving us back towards Heathrow airport with a planned family lunch nearby. 

So sorry my pictures did not come out better but.....Paul is sitting next to his Uncle Clive and Aunty Liz....it was so awesome to meet them and sure great for Paul to catch up on family and information from all those years ♥

Uncle Nigel (who is Aunty Liz's hubby) in the blue and Uncle Colin  who was hilarious. I enjoyed all the fun chatting and laughing.

And yes me sitting next to Paul's cousin (son of Nigel and Liz) who is also called Paul and they both had lots to catch up on as he was only 2 when my Paul left all those years ago. I felt so welcome amongst them all and I think they liked my Oz accent, I know I loved hearing there accents all a little different from each other ☺☺

Nigel enjoying his meal ♥

Clive and Liz again, hello and thank you again for meeting us ♥

Gordon tried to get his mobile to do some group selfies but have not seen if any were successful....

My attempt, and of course only got one side of the table......if any of you read this then I want to send hugs and love from us to you all and thank you for meeting and making it an enjoyable time, pity not for longer but we plan to be back again in the future xoxoxo

THANK YOU SO MUCH GORDON XOXOXOXO ♥♥♥♥

Woody was ready for the 3 flights home.....all roughly 7hrs each with a 4hr break at one airport then under 2hr break at another.....

Camera on the top of plane showing our takeoff......we had no sleep till we arrived back and after a week finally feel kind of human again LOL

I will be back with varying posts on our trip OS but probably not in the start to finish order, just all that we did and saw and LOVE to you all out there

☺☺

Coolangatta holiday continues

Hello again, thought I would share the professional photo's done by the varying theme parks that we have had enormous fun at. Here is 2 of our boys in the front loving tower of terror 2 lol.

The four of us on Superman where at least my screaming looked like I was loving the 0-100klms in 2 seconds lol.

All of us again on a ride I do not like at all, in the dark, rough and part of it backwards. Scooby do. I would rather ride Superman lol.

The 2 boys in the front on the left (blue) enjoying the green lantern which we did not ride at all ☺☺

Yep the ride I hate, only went on again once for the pic and my boy had since flown back home, so only the 3 of us.

Just the 3 of us back on superman  and I now love this ride even though you do lift up as you go over the incredible rises. Got to see that poor crow real close too flying out of it's nest.

A kiddies roller coaster so easy going on the roadrunner ☺

Just those 2 crazies with me keeping cool in the gift shop area instead.

And a dark snap of them enjoying father son time on the dodgem lol.

We loved all of the parks we visited and my boy and his are both back at their relevant homes now so just down to the 2 of us. We may go back for one day of riding, but have some family/friend time to catch up on too. ☺☺♥

The view from our balcony in the first week with zoom of surfers which was roughly 24klm's away from our place in Coolangatta. Weather has been a lot cooler than what we really expected but we did not mind at all.

Even got to see a whale of  2 most days in the first week but not so easy getting a picture, but at least got this one ☺

I got a lot of pictures like this one, so would have you all thinking I saw nothing lol lol.

We have now moved down the road for this week, with where we were staying is one of the high rise buildings in the distance. We were on 15th floor and now on 3rd so no view of the sea, but that is okay as we are away on holiday and the fun is still happening ☺

Picture facing the other way on the balcony.

This place has a spa bath so that is a good reason to have a nice long relax ☺☺

Our bedroom.

The other bathroom with washing machine and dryer too.

Guest room if any other's join us.

The kitchen will full oven, dishwasher and full fridge, also microwave too.

The man checking emails/banking at the table.

And here is what goes on when you stay so close to a border where 1 state does not apply day light saving. This is at the RSL Tweedheads where they are in nsw but apply the qld time for opening and closing the time on the left hand  side of pic. So as you could imagine you could be late if heading nsw and live in qld side lol. Hope you all enjoy joining us on this holiday as much as we have ourselves. Have already caught up with 2 close friend's and seeing them again tonight (sunday) and also on Monday night and  my sister and bro-inlaw who I will be seeing again wednesday and my niece also, good fun times to be had.

take care and drop in again anytime, love reading the comments left.

Coolangatta link if wanting to have a looky. 

And if ever in the area of Worongary check out this awsome takeaway place and can eat there too Uncles and can check them out on facebook too here uncles on facebook they are only 15 klm's from the theme parks and have on/off exit's/entrances to freeway so quick easy, cheaper and as they say fresh ☺☺☺

On holidays in Coolangatta and the one a day tuesday at the end

We headed off on Wednesday morning where the day was lovely and sunny. Came across a lot of motorbikes heading the other way and figure they must have been heading to Philip Island for a bike meet. Of course we were heading away from Victoria.

The Monaro highway, the way we go to get through nsw and into Queensland. 

Even got to glimpse snow on the mountains in the distance called "the snowy mountains" the-monaro-highway/

Whilst held up with roadworks I snapped this little dam and noticed a bit of activity.

 

So I used the good old zoom and here is the bird I saw.

Think it may have caught a frog or something like that, happy bird.

There was a lot of haze along the way further into nsw due to many fires that have been around.

Think I took this snap of driver on our 2nd day travelling.

Stopped off at honey world for a bit of a look. It was really hot here to, roughly 34deg celc so we were glad we had the air con lol.

Lots of bees at work.

No time to stop for this one, The big banana in Coffs Harbour.

Plenty of bananas here.

Major roadworks to make the trip quicker along nsw and Queensland.

More banana's and see the bags they cover them with to protect the growing fruit?

We both like macadamia's so stopped off the pic up a small variety of mixed flavours, yum.

The castle.

Finally arriving in Coolangatta where it was about 27deg cel, nice.

Getting closer to our accommodation. Where we quickly unpacked as I had one of my son's flying in to join us for a few days.

Here he is, just off his flight from nsw to enjoy some fun time with his mum (me) ☺☺

A few hours later, we picked up one of the man's boys who was also coming for a few extra days from Victoria, he lives near us back home.

The view from our room balcony.

First fun day of going to theme parks and we called in at Sea world link/ for a look.

My favourite roller coaster the sea viper, good fun.

jet rescue which I did not go on as had that experience once before and not a big fan lol.

They got to ride up the front so were very happy.

The son's in front on edge of pic and them man right behind them.

They now have a dinosaur island at Sea world which has many and some interactive too.

Of course I had to get a touristy shot in of them lol.

 

Onto Movie world, and able to do all the parks as we bought yearly so can pop in and out of as many as you like.

Superman ride, love the Adrenalin of this one. ride

Now this is the interesting part, a crow has built a nest here, see the twigs??

And yes where you can see the roller coaster is right where that next is lol.

There is the crow flying back to nest. It gets disturbed roughly every 10mins all day, crazy bird.

A new ride the green lantern. green-lantern The two boys road this one a few times.

In these next few shots they are in the front, go boys lol Blue t-shirt.

Whooo hoooo

Spied this swimming lizard, cute eh.

Oh yes, there is batman lol.

Different themepark now, Dreamworld where there is some amazing rides and animals too.

Getting ready for The Claw..... The-Claw

Up they go!!

The tigers are great to see and they have two young tigers. Not really babies anymore but a lot smaller than the adults there with the keepers.

Good comparison shot of sizes ☺

Just chilling out on a nice day.

Tower of terror with the boys in the front seat, just managed to snap as coming back down very fast.ride where you ride up backwards then drop forwards.

Another new ride, the buzz saw, need to look at this buzz

They are in the back heading up.

going through the twist, very hard to take pick with the sun also up there lol.

The motorbike ride with them in the front again.

The three of them going on the shock wave ride I was not a fan, so only went on once lol.

They are in the front part of picture.

Buzz saw again with them way up there lol.

And the blanket continues, managed to do quite a bit on the trip up. My one a day tuesday.

Getting there.

A angry bird game pig which I made for my son as he loves the game. He was very happy with it.

Eyes are a bit crazy but happy with it myself too.

Well hope everyone is going well where you are and don't know how much posting I will do over the next week depends on the lengthy time to download pics.

take care. ☺☺♥♥