AUSTRALIA, yipppppppppppppeeeeeeeeeee

I can't help myself. I am a proud Citizen. It is light, bright, hot and beauuuuuuuuuuuuuutiful. We have been here for three days now and as soon as we stepped off the plane we knew we were back home. The smell of it is fantastic, the light is so bright and of course the wonderful bush.

So now to the history of the trip. The boys were as good as gold. So wonderful, Matthew only cried once just before the first take off and then again when some nasty mother smacked her baby (in the middle of the night, waking up the whole row of kids) and scared poor Matthew. Timothy was the model child of goodness. The first flight we had people coming up to us saying what a lovely and well behaved children we have. The Airbus A380 was super cool and we got to sit up the top deck. We were the only ones with children on that level. The food was super tasty and the staff very friendly. We arrived here Monday morning, our Sunday night in the UK. We were quite dazed but very happy. The children had a lovely day and had a normal midday snooze and then went to the beach in the afternoon. Alas Timothy did fall back to sleep in the shops but once we were at the beach he was fully action foozle again. We all went to bed quite early around 7pm and the children woke up at 4.30am so not too bad, only an hour and a half out from the normal time. The second morning was back to normal, up at 6.30. So apart from normal tiredness we have missed the jetlag.

So far we are trying to get to the beach twice a day and a cafe at least once a day. We have a super birthday dinner for tonight, curtsey of the lovely Kim. Tomorrow we are going out for dinner, just Ben and I, thanks both to the lovely Kim and Nonna. And of course Saturday is the super party which will update you on soon. For now here is a short film of the first beach visit.