Brisbane & Noosa

Well it's been a while since we've posted anyhing on the blog and a lot has happened. Mostly it was our holiday over in Brisbane and Noosa. This entailed Joseph's first taxi ride, bus ride, plane trip and train trip all in about 24 hours (OK, sorry but I work in transport). None of it seemed to be a problem for him, but as I was downloading the photos I noticed we haven't visually documented any of it, which I guess indicates that Sophia and I were being kept busy. So no photos, but it all went well. Joseph fell asleep as we were taxi-ing down the runway at Auckland and through takeoff but woke up a little while later and as there was so much to look at on the flight... until he couldn't stay awake any longer and fell asleep after we started our descent, including sleeping through what was a pretty hard landing. But on the way home he slept the whole way from before takeoff until it was time to get off the plane!

We had a three days in Brisbane staying 2 nights with Sophia's parents, then we picked up Gerry from the airport on Saturday and headed over to Auntie Di and Uncle Ben's place for a big family get together. Once again no photos from us, but the paparazzi cousins were taking control and Vikki is going to sort some photos out from that.

Then it was on to Noosa around lunchtime the next day for a week of relaxing. Here's a couple of pics of Joseph et al outside our apartment, which was a good place to hang out and got plenty of afternoon sun, plus a good view too.

Joseph really liked the no socks and short sleeves Queensland look as you can see.

Maybe not the best photo but here's Joseph's first introduction to the beach and sea...

...the same place where his cousin Harry was hanging out almost exactly a year ago. In fact here's a pic of Harry from last year I just found.

And here's another non-Joseph photo for a change. Gerry and I were out running one morning in the National Park and came across a koala walking on the ground just a couple of metres away. I think that's not very common and we hung around for a few minutes watching it until it headed back up a tree. Anyway a couple of days later I was taking Joseph for a walk and came across another one changing trees and this time had the camera with me. So here's quite a close up picture of it - pretty cool I thought.

Here's a picture of Joseph with Uncle Gerry at Chris Mullany's place in Maroochydore

OK, enough from me. You might get a few more photos and Sophia's take on the holiday in the next few days. But then again, there's lots more news around the corner, with Joseph starting daycare 2 days a week from next week (he had a couple of one hour "orientation" sessions this week and he seems to have fitted right in) and Sophia heading back to work 3 days a week - and I get to stay at home with Joseph a day too :) Then we'll have to start planning a trip to Christchurch, looks like September when the weather is warmer and we've got daycare work routines sorted.