Noosa Weekend!

First off, I'm terribly sorry for the delay in updating the blog. I started work, we moved, and still don't have internet at home, and I've been having some technical difficulties with the camera... okay, so really, I have no good excuses, but I thought I'd list them anyways to provide some explanation. I promise to stay committed going forward, thanks for sticking with me.

Onto the fun stuff... cause I do have a lot of it with this blog entry.

We celebrated our second long weekend (3 day weekends, something I could get used to) with a trip to Noosa for Jeff's birthday! Noosa, is a beach town 2 hours northeast of Brisbane, and is absolutely exquisite. See photo evidence below.

I could lie and say I took this picture from a helicopter, but I won't...

Okay, so we sorta had a photo shoot on the beach. It was too gorgeous to resist. See the bizillions of pics below.

Yep, that's Jeff waving

We arrived to Noosa on Saturday morning, just in time for the food and wine festival, which we had no prior plans to attend. Lucky for us, accidentally visiting a town in the middle of a food and wine festival is never a bad thing. So, we did what any other good patron would do, we attended the festival, and oh what fun we had (see before and after pictures below).

Here it is...

Before

And After.

Little disappointing, I know... but trust me, we were feeling before and after

At the festival we sampled food, wine, and beer from places all across Australia (mainly the south and east coasts, but some vineyards were from as far as Perth--- see map of Australia below to clarify any questions).

Our new friends, Lindsey and Lawson, joined us in Noosa and spent the weekend there with us. We attempted stand-up paddling... which was surprisingly a big success. It was quite the core work-out, and all in all a very enjoyable adventure. Sadly I didn't get action shots of us stand up-paddling, but I found some online and posted them below... just picture Jeff and I while looking at the pictures.

Jeff. Amy.

Jeff, Lindsey, and Lawson.

Jeff and Lawson had a successful morning of surfing, minus the chest rash Jeff left with. We also had a very delicious dinner at a lovely beach front restaurant, Bistro C. Lawson and I shared a seafood medley, pictured below. Think of a hodgepodge of any and all seafood you could ever ask for, that's exactly what is was. The menu just should have read, "Absolutely Delicious". Ask me if I liked it?

The surf heros

I introduce to you, Absolutely Delicious.

And to conclude, please take a look at the warning sign on the left hand side of the road that we saw on the ride home (yes it was raining). Yes folks, beware of kangaroos crossing! I know the story would be better if I told you we saw a kangaroo crossing, so I’ll leave you in suspense and end things here…