The Perfect Day

Today is Sunday and almost to an end. It started out with a beautiful warm morning, progressed to a lovely hot afternoon with blue skies and ended up with a mild evening. We had planned to spend the day together as a family(including the dog) and decided to drive to Sandgate on the Moreton Bay Coast. The tide was so far out it was hard to see the waves, the ground was dark in colour and completely rippled from the outgoing movement of the ocean. There were large holes everywhere dug by the many stingrays that inhabit the water and strangely so, they were like quicksand in the middle and the kids found it very amusing jumping in them and sinking up to their knees. Meanwhile, the dog thought he had died and gone to heaven, so many sticks, water and open space to run and burn off that excess energy which he has so much of.

We walked along the promenade for half an hour or so and left the girls in the playground to amuse themselves. Walking is boring for young girls so they stayed behind and we walked the dog for an hour. He must have covered ten times more ground than us with his constant game of fetching the stick and he never slowed down or tired of it. We looked at the houses along the sea front and commented on the way that they had been done up; for an area that once used to be very cheap it has sure gone ahead and become trendy and unafordable for the average person. I am going to look into finding a run down place to fix up and work out if it could be a good investment.

We set up camp next to the playground and found a table in the sun. I cooked a bbq lunch and Deb made the salad and prepared the table. A perfect meal for a perfect 27c sunny day with not a cloud in the sky. After lunch I lay down in the sun and fell asleep for a couple of hours whilst the girls played sand castles on the beach and the dog played at retrieving the frisbee. When I awoke the skin on my face was all tight and I realised that I had caught the sun. We packed up the car about 3.00pm and got an ice cream from the fish shop on the main drag then made our way back home. On the way we made a detour to drop in on a mate in Albany Creek. Unfortunately she was out so I let the girls have some more fun in the playground before my last port of call (the pub). We sat outside the Samford Pub on the balcony and had a few glasses of wine and watched the sleepy village grinding to a halt and the sun set behind Mt. Nebo. Life is really in the slow lane here and so relaxing that I can't imagine living anywhere else.