YOGA

I'm in a competition at the moment for 6 months free Yoga classes. The competition is run on Facebook and the person/photo who gets the most likes wins! So if reading this and you're on Facebook please head over and like my photo! :-) Thanks!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Last weekend we got together and had a early Christmas feast which was delicious!! Here's some photos..

The gang - Cam and Adrienne, Craig and Ingrid, Rob, Mel and little Lewi and Reon and I

Girls in the kitchen

Cheese and crackers

Lamb, rosemary and feta meat balls

Bruchetta  

Lemon Sorbet as a pallet cleanser before mains

Enjoying the sorbet while listening to Christmas carols

Mmm yum!

Eating dinner

Santa Claus

Desert!

The girls surprised me with some birthday cupcakes! 

SHE'S ABOUT TO POP!!!

 Last weekend Melinda and I organised Adrienne's baby shower. We had good food, great company, a quizz, some words of advise and a BBQ dinner, so all and all it was a good afternoon.

Afternoon nibbles

Savory pinwheels and sausage rolls

Yoyos

Our theme was 'she's about to pop!'

Sticking to the theme with pop corn!

Hanging out downstairs at Rob and Mel's

Rob Jents and his impressive mo for movember!

Malcolm and Janine

Squeak and Sheree a couple from Ayr - about 45min away

Squeak and Sheree's gorgeous little girl Taylor. They also have another daughter Jolie.

Denver - Malcolm and Janines youngest son (they have 5 kids)

Rob and Mel

Malcolm and Janine's oldest girl Liz

Reon and I

Cam and Adrienne

Ryan and Jackon - Malcolm and Janine's other son

Playing on the pinball machines. Rob collects them and also buys old ones, restores them and sells them on

Making music

THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER

We met Geoff and Nick in Mackay one Saturday as they had kindly driven up a trailer full of stuff for us.

Unpacking the trailer - very exciting!!

Unpacking the furniture

Unpacking the kitchen!

Mangos!! Its coming into mango season and everyone has tree's here. Apparently in a few weeks time everyone has Mangos coming out of there ears, they cut them up and freeze them for smoothies etc and also dehydrate them and make dried Mango - mmmm can't wait!

YUM!!

Last Saturday Melinda and I went to Adrienne's baby shower that one of her work friends organised.

Guess how many jelly beans are in the bottle.....

Cute mini cupcakes

Adrienne opening her presents

She got some awesome stuff

Melinda, Adrienne and I

Rob and Mel had us out for 'steam boat' the other night. They also had a couple from Canada visiting them - Dale and June (not sure of there last name)

The meat - sweat and sour beef, chicken satay, garlic, ginger and chilli beef and coconut and kafa leaves. (Note the 'fishing net' sitting on the place mat)

So this bowl sits in the middle of the table and underneath it is a flame heating the beef broth which is in the bowl. So what you do is fill your 'fishing net' with your choice of marinated meat and veges and pop it into the broth and it cooks it. Once its cooked you then dump it onto your plate of rice and then fill your net up again with another choice of   meat.  At the end of the night you drink the broth and its SO tasty as all the marinades have mixed together etc. You wouldn't want to do this with any boring or anti social visitors as it's a very slow process and makes for a long night of talking and eating. It's fun though and I really enjoyed it, although Reon was very impatient and wanted to just dump everything in and eat, typical male! ;-)

OUR WEEKEND

We caught up with some friends over the weekend down near Ayr's rock, they live on a sugar cane farm about an hour and 1/2 from Townsville. We took their four wheeler down to the river and tried to catch some baramunde but we had no luck... maybe the crocs chased them away. Salt water crocs or 'salties' as they call them and fresh water crocs or 'freshies' are often spotted in the river. While fishing we were told to always stay a couple of metres away from the river and Leighton has never come down to the river without his shot gun, just in case one decides to attack. The river is really gorgeous and clear so its a pity you can't swim in it. He said if there were only 'freshies' he'd go swimming no worries but since there's 'salties' there's not a chance!

Heading down to the river with the shotgun

Fishing

On our way home we came across a cane fire. 

Pretty sunset

On Monday Reon had an RDO (day off) so we went out wakeboarding with Rob and Mel. There are also crocs in this river but only 'freshies' so no worries.

Reon

Me

Its a hard life!

Little Lewi, he'd get quite upset when anyone fell off!

Reon wakeskating. 

Me trying out the wakeskate

Rob

Mel and Lewi