Brisbane

We spent Thursday at White Water World, the water park next to Dreamworld. We had so much fun, doing all the different slides. Dad, Joise and I (Jerome) did the Wedgie waterslide. You stand in a rocket-type compartment, then they count 3,2,1 and suddenly the floor drops away from beneath you, and you go shooting, almost vertically down to the pool below. I tell you, NONE of us did that ride again! When we got home that day we were telling about our favourite things and Mum worked out she'd done 26 rides on water slides - it was a great day!

On Friday, we spent our last morning at Dreamworld. We did the rides that we liked the most, these included the Log ride, Rapid ride and the Runaway Reptar roller coaster. We did the Motocoaster and Sophia got to do that, as she measured the right height. For that ride you sit on a motorbike and then go whizzing around the roller coaster track. Molly and Sophia got to sit in the sidecars next to Dad and Mum!

After lunch, we headed to the north of Brisbane, where we spent the weekend with the Growing families of Qld at their camp. We had
great fun with the different families, we did a kids programme on Character, learning songs about responsibility and self-control, it was great. There was one family that had come all the way from Cairns. On Saturday afternoon, we had a family games time. On one of the games, you had to squeeze through a spider wed made of rope, without touching the rope. It was very funny watching some of the smaller kids being fed through the rope holes! Everyone left on Sunday, leaving us by ourselves at the camp site.




















On Monday, we caught the Citytrain from Dakabin station to the city. We had morning tea at the Botanic Gardens, then we walked across the Goodwill bridge, that spans the Brisbane River. We caught the train home and went to have dinner with a family that had been at the camp, it was nice to spend time with friends and enjoy their lego city! I hoped to go on a cane toad busting walk, but there isn't many around as it is not the right season, what a shame.

On their recommendation, today, we went to the Opals Down Under shop. There, you could buy all sorts of precious stones and opals. We got containers and out the back of the shop, we got to fossick around the pit for different stones, which you could keep. There was one gold stone, that if you found it, you got to spent $10 in the shop and Grace found it, quite by surprise! How cool. The rocks were amazing colours and it seems incredible that they can be naturally found in such bright and varied hues - another amazing piece of creation by our big, big, God. Also, did you know 90% of all the world opals are found here in Australia - a little piece of trivia for the day.