Day 27 saw the weather improve significantly and a cacth-up had been organised with Chris and Sandra, two friends of Jimi and Mazzy’s who were at school with the kids at Richmond Primary for a while, before they moved away to Brisbane. Chris and Jimi were best friends at Richmond, both with a love of astronomy and robotics, and was a big shame when they had to move to Brisbane. So it was really good when we could finally organise a catch-up.

After a few attempts at organising, it was agreed that everyone would come down to our Caravan Park. That would let the kids play and would be able to make use of the water park style facilities, as well as the spa.

The kids had a blast, like nothing had changed at all (Seena and family had been gone over a year) and it was a big day had by all in and around the pool.

If we find additional pics of the water slides I will add them in. Pretty sure they are out there somewhere.

Although another catchup was arranged for tomorrow, where we would have dropped in to see the Simon’s at their house, Mazzy unfortunately picked up a bug and we had to cancel. So instead of one day in Brisbane, we had once again move on, this time to Landsborough, which gives you access to the Glass House Mountains.

That was the end of our Gold Coast stay, and although it was bad weather, and Mazzy picked up a bug it felt like a bit of karma. So far we had loved all of our days but they were more in keeping with the backroads of Australia. The Gold Coast was insanely busy and on reflection I doubt we would consider coming back, but who knows for sure.