Thursday, June 20, 2013

Day 10: 4-Wheel Drive fun!!

Where to begin?!!?  What an amazing day!!  We went on a 4-wheel Drive tour out to Mount Tamborine all day – what a blast!   We stopped first to wander thru a wildlife area – saw a koala up in the tree!!  Even saw wild kangaroos out in the field!!  Soooo cool!!  Headed off into the mountains on a super bumpy road – kids flew a bit in the back of our ‘party’ bus!  Learned a new song – “Give me a home among the gumtrees.”  Kids are experts – even learned the actions! Stopped for tea and scones and headed off into the rainforest.  Hiked down Tamborine National Park to Curtis Falls.  Was cool to drive thru the Eucalyptus woods and see kangaroos out in the wild!  Wow!  Stopped for a delicious BBQ lunch, where the kids learned how to throw boomerangs and crack whips.  Eddie did an amazing job with the whip!  Back into our party bus we went and off for a rainforest tree top walk and fed the birds!  Girls did some screaming as they landed all over us…am still picking out birdseed from my hair!  One last stop at the overlook and back to Surfer’s we went.  Quick cleaning off of bird seed…and bird poop… and off to Hard Rock Café for dinner we went!  Couldn’t get us all together L so kids went one direction and adults went another.  Some had never been, so we had to do it! Sorry Bob!  Stopped down at the beach to check it out and back to the hotel we went.  We are having such an amazing time – so hard to believe we’ve been here a week…and that we have just one more week to go!!  Where has the time gone?!?  Looking back it’s so cool to see what we’ve done…and looking ahead to the itinerary makes me excited to watch their faces experience more fun!  For instance, tomorrow, we’re going to a wildlife sanctuary to hold koalas & feed kangaroos. Then the kids are going surfing while we visit Byron Bay.  Good stuff!  We’ll be in Sydney on Saturday – two big days on the coach…ugh.  But it’s all good!!
Until tomorrow…

~steph  :)

(pics to follow...running out of internet time..)

Koala in the wild...we disturbed his slumber...

Joey out in the wild...

Tea Time!

Curtis Falls

BBQ lunch

Olivia working on her boomerang form...

Cristina trying to master the whip...

Eddie was the whip master

Kathryn looking stylish while practicing her whip skills

Courtney paying listening intently to directions

Mike & Molly on our tree top walk

Adam, Debbie & I on the tree top walk

Bird feeding time!

After a run-in with a rooster, Olivia is a little skittish around the parakeets.

LOVING the day!!

Yeah Team Iowa!
Our entire bus:  Team Iowa, Team Texas, and Team Puerto Rico

Dinner at the Hard Rock

Adam joining in on our jumping fun!


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