Gold Coast - Day 6

It was free and easy day. The intention was to sleep until the kids woke up naturally. However, when the intention was so, Lil Shauna had to wake up at 6.30am, exclaiming that the clouds were rainbow colored. They were actually orangey from the bright morning sun and were indeed beautiful. With that, Lil Isaac woke up too curious about what jiejie was excited about. Isn't it ironical that I had to drag them off bed every morning and they actually woke up earlier than me on a day with no agenda?

We had breakfast and it was a beautiful day. We took a cab to Pacific Fair, which is a big shopping mall. It isn't that far away, but cost us A$25 by cab. We were told that it would cost us more by public bus. Strangely, we couldn't find anything to buy. See, I told you that I am allergic to shopping with kids.

There is a big playground in the center of Pacific Fair and the kids had plenty of fun. It is amazing how kids can just spent hours climbing up and sliding down when they have companion.

While the kids were parked at the playground with the Daddies, Mummy P and I managed to escape for about an hour to shop around. We still didn't find much to buy. Stuff are actually cheaper in Singapore.

The kids were still happily playing when we went to take over the daddies. I tried taking pictures of the girls jumping and didn't quite succeed.

Lil Isaac saw how fun it was and joined in the fun. T was busy munching biscuits and found the biscuits more attractive. Daddy Lim insisted that the camera on his hp was better but the pictures didn't turn out any better. Chey!

It was until mummy thought of getting the kids to jump off the slide that we manage to get a really nice shot. Super cool, right?

We also tried taking them sliding down but the effect didn't turn out well. Such silly stuff cracks us up and provided us with extra entertainment.

The kids had a choo choo train ride all by themselves before we had lunch and then we left Pacific Fair. We didn't stay long, probably for about 2 hours.

Back in Surfers' Paradise, we headed to the beach - our very first official trip to the beach since we came to Gold Coast and the water proved to the way too cold.

The kids were dressed in proper swimming attire but Lil Isaac didn't survive more than a minute in the water. The water was too cold, the waves were too strong and too scary for him. He ended up drinking huge mouthfuls of sea water and was brought back shore shivering. Lil Shauna enjoyed the water more but didn't last long as well. I think she was in the water for about 5 mins. Lol. We ended up playing with sand and picking seashells instead, which was also great fun.

There were actually plenty of shade but we opted and had to stay in the sun to keep warm. It was very cold in the shade with the sea breeze.
The late afternoon was tough to pass. With teh setting sun, it was getting colder and impossible to stay on the breach. Sadly, there aren't many other stuff to entertain the kids in Surfers' Paradise. We bought dinner back and had dinner in the hotel room. Then, we monkeyed a little with the kids playing silly games in the room and all turned in early for the day.

Mummy Lim