Evie has been doing some baking:
We made cheesecake and some cupcakes. Evie was excited about doing all the decorating herself. Isla and Evie made banana bread themselves last week with just a bit of help here and there. We also made some salt dough which occupied Evie for quite a while, making Aussie animal shapes. I'll put some photos of them on once she has painted them.
We went to the Booin Gari festival last week. It is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural day where we watched live music played on a didgeridoo, guitars and drums. One of the performers was called Chris Tamwoy, who was on Australia's Got Talent a couple of years ago playing guitar by guitar tapping. A giant octopus puppet and a huge snake puppet processed around the festival. Evie and Isla decorated boomerangs, looked at Aboriginal paintings and tried out weaving with coconut palm leaves. The weather wasn't great and we got completely drenched going back to our car! It was a great festival though and we bumped into lots of friends there.
On Wednesday we visited the zoo. It is one we haven't been to before called 'Wildlife HQ' and is near a landmark called 'The Big Pineapple'. It is partly in a rainforest and we really enjoyed seeing the different animals, especially the koala babies, the wallabies and the meerkats. All the animals were very active and were as interested in looking at us as we were to be looking at them.
Yesterday we visited Kenilworth and Mapleton, which are in the hinterland of the Sunshine Coast. There is a great play park with a flying fox at Kenilworth and we sampled lots of cheese at the cheese factory there too. Mapleton has lovely views and a rainforest walk. A highlight was seeing a King Parrot on our way home.
We had lots of time at the beach together over the weekend before the rain came on Sunday. I'm not sure if we have enough pink in our outfits at the moment:
At the beginning of the holidays we had some birthday parties to go to. One was a Bear Grylls Extreme Adventure party which involved orienteering through bushland to find the code for a combination lock. It was pretty extreme with many people coming back wounded from the expedition. We managed to crack the code and got into the esky of chocolate milk! Evie had a lovely party at her friend's house which involved repeatedly listening to a song called 'Baby Shark' which all the children here are obsessed with.
Hope you are all having a great start to October! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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