Aug Trip to QLD

Friday 3^rd August
Today I was heading to Brisbane to spend some time with my family & friends over the weekend & to go to a couple of games (or miss some too). I got the train & sky bus to the airport and got the 850am flight. The flight was pretty good. I arrived in Brisbane about 11am & mother & father picked me up from the airport. We then headed off to visit Mr. & Mrs. Kettniss & Vikki and her kids were there too. I had a roast beef sandwich & then headed off to the train so that I could visit my friend from high school, Nicole & her little boy Xavier. We quickly did some shopping as I needed to find and then headed off back to her place in Petrie. I spent the afternoon with little Xavy so it was lots of fun. I then got a train back to my parents house.

Saturday 4^th August

We left home this morning at about 7am as we had a long drive. We drove from Goodna to Millmerran, where my Opa & Oma are currently living. It’s always difficult to visit them. Oma has Alzheimer’s is being German can only understand very limited English. Opa’s legs have deteriorated very quickly & it will only be time until he needs a wheelchair.

At about 12.30pm we left Millmerran. I was very excited about the prospect of seeing real cotton bushes on the side of the road so we went & I picked nearly all of the cotton off the cotton bush in the photo here.

We then went on our way to Leyburn, a very small town, which ran out of water supplies in April 2007. We decided to have lunch there & I had a hamburger & some beautiful homemade soup by my mother. After Leyburn we then headed down to Karara onto the Cunningham Highway & then off to the Gold Coast.

We arrived at Carara Stadium, the nights venue for the Gold Coast Titans vs West Tigers game. My favourite player, Scott Prince, was back after being injured and was at his best. I collected my tickets & arrived at my seats just after kick-off (about two minutes). The Titans won 30-14. Little Taniela Tuiaki, who was also the captain for the West Tigers, can surely run. After the game we drove back to Goodna for a good nights sleep.

Sunday 5^th August
Well this day maybe I should just write was a write off. I woke up about 4am firstly disturbed by the possums then about an hour later I was vomiting. Then the hours to follow I felt terrible & don’t think I have ever felt so sick in my life and so spent the whole day in bed.

The plan for today leave at 7.30am for a steam train trip & then off to Suncorp (aka Lang Park) for Brisbane Broncos vs Manly Sea Eagles game.

Monday 6^th August
It’s surely amazing what 24hours can do & how on earth can someone feel so much better in that time. But alas I did. We left Goodna about 10am, with a short trip to red rooster to collect lunch & we spent about 2 hours at my grandfather’s house.

After lunch we headed off to the “pink elephant”, a friends house, for my father to do some errands there. We spent about an hour there & then headed off to Vikki’s so that I could spend the afternoon with Vikki & the kids. When father arrived Vikki made full use of him to pull down the blinds in one of the children’s room & replace with a curtain. Unfortunately we had to go to the shop to make sure we had the curtain rod, as there was none spare lying around.

At about 7pm, when the children were all in bed, I headed off to meet my friend Belinda for coffee. We talked for just over an hour and then headed off to the train so that I could get home. Its amazing what you can talk about for so long.

Tuesday 8^th August
I was heading home this morning & as my brother and two friends were arriving on a flight at 1110 I decided to get the 1150 flight to Melbourne. When we arrived at the airport I went to the virgin terminal, even though I was departing Qantas. I wanted to see my brother, if only for a couple of minutes, before heading back to Melbourne. The flight was very very bumpy. I arrived in Melbourne and got a taxi from the airport home, as I was still feeling a little queezy from Sunday & the smooth (not) flight.