What a Week it has Been :

WOW.... What a week it has been. My family have a week together at Christmas every second year at a different location around Queensland. This year we decided to go to Broadbeach on the Gold Coast.

My family consists of our matriarch my Mum, I have 4 siblings with their families taking the total in the 2, 3 bedroom units to 13.... My three teenage nieces (all stuck on their iPhones 24/7) two twenteen something nephews & other nephews & my son, (who couldn't stay the hole week). At one stage we tried to book into somewhere to have dinner & each place we rang couldn't fit a party of 17 at short notice. So what do you do then....

Of course you cook dinner in the apartment & then try to fit everyone in, which we managed to do :) It was hilarious & memorable.

Now this image is of the first morning from our 11 floor apartment overlooking the beach & Kurrawa Surf Club at 5:30 am just as the sun was rising over the ocean.

Well that was the start of a non stop week of going here, there & everywhere on the Goldie. Of course, it wasn't always easy keeping tabs on everyone, again, thank goodness for technology :)

All in all over the past week, every time I started working on my emails I would be asked to go somewhere or play a game with everyone as my mum loves to play lots of games from poker to backgammon & everything inbetween. It was really a great week which went very fast but wouldn't have it any other way.....