What a weekend, it is Monday and I feel like I need another 4 days off to get over the Easter break!
Seriously thought it has been great, on Friday we went over to Gary's parents for a BBQ with the family, his brother Alan from Mt Isa came up as a surprise with his wife Eve and so it was lovely to catch up with them. Nearly the whole family was there, the only thing is they ate red meat, the heathens!! LOL Luckily they had some leftover fish from the night before so I didn't have to eat a salad sandwich!
Speaking of food my diet went completely out the window this weekend, it was just too hard with going away and eating out so I am back on track today! Will have to work extra hard this week I think to get another loss, if I break even I will be happy :)
We went down to Cairns on Saturday and met up with Wendy and Ian (and their kids Tess and Mitchell) at the Tropical Queenslander in Lake Street (a really good cheap place to stay) only $80 a night and it was clean, roomy and everything you need!
We caught a taxi to the races, I was all dolled up with dress, shoes and racing hat but felt like a frump compared to most of the girls there! Wowee!
The weather was dodgy but Gary's sister Susan and her boyfriend John had already scored a table under cover so we were ok.
It was an ok day although Gary and I didn't pick a winner, and the one time I did pick a winner I lost the ticket!! The kids all got a free showbag from Toyworld that had some really cool stuff in it! Rhett got a lego kit, a kite, a Thomas the Tank engine watch, a wrestler figurine, a horse figurine, a metal robot thingy.. at least $50 worth of stuff so that was a bonus.
The only problem was the line ups to the bar and to the TAB were just annoying there were too many people there or more than they expected. Although having said that there were no line ups to the toilets, I didn't have to wait once, which is a miracle in itself!
After the races we went back to the motel (Susan gave us a lift) and got changed for dinner, we went to Brothers Leagues club. The food was ok not great but at only $14.95 for 2 adults who can complain. They have a kids club there which is fantastic, supervised with colouring in books and XBoxes the kids were happy to play while we had a few beers and watched the football.
The cowboys game was brilliant, very exciting and thoroughly enjoyed it!
After the game we picked up the kids and caught a taxi back to the motel where we kicked back had a couple more beers and chatted.
Finally went to bed and had a great nights sleep, woke up at about 8 and had a shower, we ended up having to wake Rhett up to see what the Easter Bunny bought. After all that we went to Charlies for breakfast where there was a beautiful buffet of all the great breakfast foods.. bacon, eggs, muffins, cereal etc etc thoroughly enjoyed that and then we went to Muddys.. now I went to the Muddy's that I didn't even know existed, I thought Muddy's was the pool area and didn't know there was just a playground area and am beginning to wonder if that is what happened to Rachael and I that time we couldn't find each other, we might have been at different places!
Anyway was very impressed with the playground and wish Atherton had something similar.
After a good hour at the park it was time to come home as Alan and Eve were coming over for lunch, so we headed up the range. Bought a BBQ chook and some coleslaw from IGA and Al and Eve, came over we showed them around, had lunch chatted and tried to fly Rhett's kite (it was way too windy)
Watched the Warriors vs Manly game (bugger I went for the Warriors in the tipping comp) and they headed off, we promised to come visit them in Mt Isa next year and I am hoping we do as I have always wanted to visit Mt Isa :)
Today I am planning on catching up on a few things, watching a movie and generally taking it easy :)
Savannah made this hat for Rhett's Easter Bonnet parade in about 10 mins! She is so talented!!
Rhett enjoying his football easter egg!