Rob's 40th Weekend at the Crowne Plaza

We celebrated Rob's 40th birthday with a weekend away at the
Crowne Plaza, Pelican Waters.


We arrived Friday afternoon with the kids.

To beautiful views from exactly the same room we had when we stayed on Christmas night a year and a half ago!

Ava had a little lie down and a read...

before getting ready for dinner in the restaurant.

Ava thought we'd walked into the set of Masterchef.

And Isaac told me that I looked scary with that black stuff around my eyes.
But they were both so well behaved for their first time in a restaurant.

The next morning we woke to a rainy day.

 But that didn't stop us enjoying a beautiful breakfast.
Isaac ate better than he had ever eaten in his life!

 Then later that day Rob's parents joined us for lunch, in the same restaurant again.
After lunch we left the kids at Grandma's & Grandad's, just down the road.

Rob and I had our first decent alone time since before Isaac was born, and he's almost seven!
The first thing we did was have a long nap.
It was so quiet, for so long!!

Then we went for a stroll out in the cold.
And it was lovely.

Then we opened the complimentary bottle of wine and got ready for dinner.
We had some cocktails in the bar first.

And then dinner, which was divine...the food and the company.

Then we went for another quick stroll in the cold.

And had another cocktail...

Before discovering...

this at the end of the lift corridor!

 

After breakfast the next morning, the fifth meal in a row in the same restaurant, we picked up the kids and vowed to do it again every year.

Brisbane Adventure, St Matt's Catch Up & R-L's Birthday

Friday afternoon we picked Isaac up early from school and headed off on a little adventure.
I'd been invited to dinner with girls I used to teach with, the kids had never been into the city and it was R-L's birthday, so we booked one night at Rydges, Southbank for a mini holiday.

The hotel was great, dinner with the girls was great, wandering around the city was great and visiting the cousins at the Gold Coast was great!  We had the best time!!

View from our hotel room

We went on the Wheel of Brisbane

Well, Isaac, Ava & I did...

Rob watched, can you spot him?

We visited the museum

We strolled through Southbank Parklands

The night time view

I got dressed for dinner

And loved catching up with my old friends

Saturday morning we walked over the bridge to the mall,

browsed in our favourite second hand bookstore and

played in the Botanic Gardens

Walked along Riverside

Passed the River Queens

Caught a river ferry (Ava remembered how much she doesn't like boats)

The kids caught a ride when we were checking out

Then we went to the Gold Coast for R-L's birthday