Zorbing - the only way to travel...Vicky faces her fear of the sea.. "But things LIVE in it" Yes Vicky.. things live in Leeds too... and they're far scarier!

It's not a night out if you don't come back in a trolley!
Austin Powers gets to meet us :)
The Superman ride... scarier than shark in your sock drawer..

Surfers Paradise was lush..

We got a small 6 bedroom apartment for a week with an Irish couple (Martin and Andrea) and an English couple (Dave and Katy).

Cyril the bat lived in a tree next door.. and he was huge. Let me make this clear.. he was NOT a small bat!

5 mins walk from the beach so obviously a lot of time spent there! The waves were huge, like nothing I've seen before! Had a few embarassing bikini moments there but people were so busy trying to survive there dip in the sea that I think it went unnoticed!

Had some comedy nights in our little apartment! The most memorable was probably the night I had a most genius idea! The flat was non smoking and fully equipped with smoke alarms so we had to keep stopping our drinking games so people could go to the balcony... we soon tired of this so we pulled all the furniture to the balcony windows so the smoke would go out the window and everyone could carry on playing...

That's when the faulty lightbulb went off in my head...

'I'll burn some toast' I said.. 'That was, if the smoke alarm does go off we can just blame it on the toast!'

Everyone concurred that this was indeed a most fantastic idea, and that I was a genius.

We burnt some toast.

The toast set off the smoke alarm.

Cue mad panic to return the furniture to its original position, and running around with 2 bits of toast shaped charcoal shouting to the rest of the building.. 'It's just some toast!'

To be fair... we got away with it! Proving without a doubt that I truly am, a genius.

Movieworld was probably my favourite day out! The Superman rollercoaster was probably the scariest thing I've ever been on! Mad fun! The theme park itseld was quite small but there were loads of rides and shows so we still didn't get to do it all! Did the best bits tho... and best of all.. hardly ANY queues!

On the way to Brisbane from Surfer's we stopped and went zorbing! Now that's insane.. they put you in a plastic ball with a load of water and push you down a hill! Such a giggle.. I want to do it again! Some crazy man I go to take photos for us decided to LIE in the path of our ball and take a photo as we went over him! Genius.. didn't come out so well tho because it was pitch black. Yes just to make it extra nuts.. we did it at night! haha Zorbing guys.. its the way forward!

So now we are in Brisbane... and soon I shall be updating you again

Hope all are well guys

Much love to you xxx