Our Holiday to Queensland...

Recently we went up to sunny rainy Queensland for a family holiday and to visit our cousins. It was the first time we children had been out of the state...

On the Saturday my aunt and uncle took us on the rivercat into the city of Brisbane.

The Brisbane River...

After a picnic lunch on the shore we visited the museum, which had this wonderful display of insects (which I loved!)...

and it also had lots of other interesting displays...

On our way back we came across this clever busking mime who was frozen like a statue, and when we put money in his little case he did a graceful bow and changed position.

We enjoyed a hot chocolate at a little cafe overlooking the markets...

On the Sunday afternoon my aunt and uncle took us for a drive around Deception Bay, and on the way we saw this shipwreck...

Our cousin Daniel was showing us his new kite, but as the weather was wet and windy, it took all his strength to fly it - he even got air-borne a couple of times!

He was getting blown over towards the main road, so my uncle was chasing after him and telling him to brake... (this particular model of kite has brakes on it)

Poor Daniel got slammed to the ground many times too, but he didn't seem to mind!

On the Monday we were heading north to a lovely little town called Montville, which has lots of little craft shops, but it was raining even heavier and all the roads were starting to flood...

We managed to cross this one (after much encouragement from my uncle!)...

But thought we'd better not try this one... 

Everywhere we went the water was starting to rise...

But we managed to get through okay.

On the way we stopped at the Big Pineapple, but my uncle thought it would be quicker to cross the six lane highway on foot rather than use the pedestrian over-bridge! Here he is stranded in the middle...we beat him of course!

Of course we had to get a photo in front of the Big Pineapple...

I'll share more about our trip in the coming days...