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Hope you are ok, I am still not smoking, which means I'm still not sleeping properly. Last night I took 1 and a half sleeping tablets and I still woke up 3-4 times in the night and then got up at 6:15am!!
As you know Catherine came and met me in Brisbane on Tuesday night and we hired a car and then Drove an hour to the Gold Coast, staying in an area called Surfers Paradise. I had booked us a twin room in the 5* Marriott Resort hotel, which was about £95 a night. While I was working in Brisbane on the Monday and Tuesday work had put me up in the Marriott hotel there. When I looked in my Mini Bar I found a bag of Chickens feet!! I complained but nothing was done about it so I complained again after 8 hours or so.
Well to cut a long story short we were given an upgrade at the Marriott in Surfers paradise!! and then when we went to check out the only charged us for 1 night and not 3!! (but we think that may have been an error).
Surfers was a lovely place, miles of beach with no one on! During the day it was about 28-30 degrees which isn't bad for Autumn. The first day we were there we drove up into the Hinterland to Tambourine Mountain, lovely views!! Then we went to a wildlife sanctuary where we got to cuddle Koalas and feed Kangaroos. They also had a show where the wild Laurakeets come down and eat out of your hands. I gave that a miss as I didn't want birdy poo all over me.
The next day we went off to Dreamworld, this is a theme park with big rides. Its no where near as big or pretty as Alto Towers but it did have some great rides, which was nice to do in the sunshine.
After there we went back to our hotel to relax for a bit with a few G and Ts, we were trying to motivate ourselves to go swim in the lagoon. The lagoon at the hotel is one of only 4 in the world with fish in. So you don't even need to leave the resort to go snorkelling!!!!
That night we went for a lovely Thai meal and a walk and then crashed out again early.
Flew back to Sydney yesterday morning.
Today I am going Horse Riding and Camping with Trashy Mark, haven't got a clue where, just need to go and buy a tent by 11am this morning.
Toodle pip
Al xx
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