Jun 30, 2007

Holidays

Idyll Chris has been helping out and looking after Eloise while we go out and do our business. We have looked at a couple of cars over the past few days, and things like that.

On Monday night we went out to the Queensland Performing Arts Centre to see legendary - well famous - Geordie comedian Ross Noble in an apparently improvised rant about many different subjects which was quite hilarious. You might know Mr Noble if you listen to Just A Minute on Radio 4, he's been on it a few times. You can't miss him... he's the Geordie.

After the last few days of misery it was a welcome relief to be laughing again... and how we laughed. Nicole was crying at one point, with mirth that is.

On Tuesday we test drove a car - Chris babysitting again - and it rained all day, so we did very little else. It rained for 24 hours, near enough, and the brook was looking very full again when I braved the elements with the dogs later on. Not much fun. The car wasn't that great either.

On Wednesday it was the twins' brithday so we went for a day out - quite late in the day, after we'd woken up - to Lamington National Park, down on the New South Wales border. We'd been there before but this time we went to a different section and went for a walk round a little rainforest circuit that took all of twenty minutes then for a longer walk through the forest to a lookout over a beatiful valley with a protuberance by the name of Egg Rock sticking up from it. The path ended up precariously close to the edge of a cliff at one point, so Eloise stayed in her rucksack on Chris' back, which fortunately she enjoyed.

In the evening we went out to a Nepalese restaurant and gorged ourselves silly on Himalayan food. Eloise was a bit manic, running around the place and generally making a nuisance of herself, until the food arrived when suddenly she became a model of good behaviour. It was a big day for her and a late night and she did really well. Chris seemed to enjoy himself too... incidentally.

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