our 3 day break

... recently we attended a beautiful wedding ...

caught up with a lot of friends and had a few drinkies ...

it's interesting how different chandeliers can look after just 3 wine/shandies...  what a sad effort on my part !

accommodation was great ... nice views ...

good tv reception ...

and while the shell collecting didn't quite go as planned

the kids all managed to have a good time regardless ...

... with one of ours {yes, only 4 of these are ours} insisting on taking home a coconut to open ...

... back to reality and school almost about to start ...

... but i'm still wishing life could be an endless holiday ...

~  love the summer holidays  ~

it's not summer without ...

hanging out at the beach

   

my fabulous state of Queensland

frangipanis

   

favourite music

 

big hats

watermelon

swimming pools

 

cold drinks

.. and lazy days ...

~  enjoy the summer  ~

The quick trip ...

Here we are in Sunny Townsville.  A fast and furious few days filled with appointments, Christmas shopping and swimming lessons for the kids.  Last but not least ... a fabulous new cut and colour to get me through the silly season ... wahoo!

just around the corner! 

the view from our place  ...

kids will get some mileage out of the water park ...

...hopefully enjoy a latte with my sister too :-)

~ live life every day  ~

Message in a Bottle

Many, many years ago, my oldest brother found a message in a bottle on our annual holiday at South Mission Beach.   Yes!  Really!  I was so jealous for years... I really wanted to find a genie in a bottle when I was a kid, but the next best thing would have been finding your 'typical' message in a bottle.

It was from a girl called Halinka who was from a Scandanavian country.  Just a small plastic white tube with the 'Shell' emblem on both ends.  My mother assumed there would have been hundereds of them dropped of a Shell tanker sometime back in the late 1960's and it was organized by the Red Cross from memory.

My brother wrote to Halinka - I think they were about the same age, but we never did get a reply.  What a shame - would have been an amazing story.

note to self... find out Halinka's full name and edit this post ... just in case she's reads this one day ...

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~  never lose your sense of wonder  ~