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Follow us as we step through life and all that it holds.Bubbles and Spankyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17907251832202209110noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516623685187639333.post-66711190716001517022013-06-12T02:00:00.000+10:002013-06-12T02:00:02.765+10:00Wordless Wednesday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Bubbles and Spankyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17907251832202209110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516623685187639333.post-2381909221604826682013-06-08T20:57:00.000+10:002013-06-08T20:57:50.905+10:00HOW BIG?!?<br />
Wow, a year rolls around very quickly! This time last year, Spanky was just about to head over to Fiji for a bit of R&R while she could still comfortably get on an aeroplane.<br />
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Our little family will shortly head off on our first overseas holiday as a trio. <br />
As we are creatures of habit, we are again heading off to Fiji. This time last year, Spanky went there with The Zookeeper, while Bubbles was over in Europe on a work trip.<br />
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We will be spending a week at Mana Island Resort, followed by two nights at The Terrace Apartments on Denarau, then a week at a private Villa at Musket Cove Resort, then one more night back at the Terrace Apartments before we come home.<br />
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This holiday is going to be special, and not just because its the Spudlet's first O/S trip, but because its going to be a BIG family gathering.<br />
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The President & First Lady (Spanky's parents) will be with us for the while trip, while Lucille (Spanky's brother) will be doing his own thing for the first week, then joining back up with us at the Apartment for the second 1.5wk.<br />
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If that wasn't good enough, Patrice and Lady L will be coming over from Perth and joining us in staying at the Villa!<br />
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Still not enough you say?? Well, it get BIGGER! We have 5 of our family friends coming to also join us from America!<br />
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So, there will be 12 Adults, and the Spudlet!<br />
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This should be a fantastic holiday!!!Bubbles and Spankyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17907251832202209110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516623685187639333.post-72620737726922523322013-06-05T02:00:00.000+10:002013-06-05T02:00:03.099+10:00Wordless Wednesday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Bubbles and Spankyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17907251832202209110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516623685187639333.post-56970331340845559632013-04-26T20:19:00.000+10:002013-04-26T20:19:52.886+10:00Its been a busy last 7 months!We have been a little busy of late.<br />
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We welcomed the newest addition to our family on the 28th of September, 2012 - Yes, she is now 7mths old!!<br />
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Meet 'The Spudlet', otherwise known as Audrey Paige.<br />
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It has been very event filled last 7 months.<br />
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We already have a crawling baby......and standing every chance she gets....and walking around the furniture<br />
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Miss Maggie has been great with Audrey, now she knows not to turn her back to the baby or some little hands will maybe grab her fur. Other wise, they get on really well.Bubbles and Spankyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17907251832202209110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516623685187639333.post-59433989514921914572012-07-16T10:48:00.000+10:002012-07-16T10:48:37.059+10:00Spanky & The Zookeeper go to Fiji!<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Its been two weeks since The Zookeeper and I returned home
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This was about my 8<sup>th</sup> time to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Fiji</st1:country-region>, while it
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taxi to the marina, had breakfast, looked around at the shops and brought a few
food things from the small supermarket. Then it was a 45min boat trip out to
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p><span style="background-color: white;">It was so nice to arrive at the island, you instantly felt
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resort and taken to our room. We where in a ‘Hotel room’ which is the top floor
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p> A</o:p><span style="background-color: white;">te at each of the restaurant/café options the resort offers. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Zookeeper also made a very good dent in the cocktail bar drinks menu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Not all cocktail drinks that where drunk where captured in photo......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After 8 nights at Musket Cove Resort, we packed our bags,
enjoyed a last dip in the ocean and took the boat back to the main land.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We spent the next 3 nights at the Terrace Apartments on Denarau.
I chose this place to stay at because it
was a short walk across the car park at the marina which gave us lots of option
for meals and would be a bit quieter than some of the larger resorts nearby.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After hopping off the boat and collecting our bags, we just
walked over to the apartments. Check in was easy and although our room wasn’t
ready yet, we where fine with that as we where happy just heading back over to the
marina to get some lunch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Our room was a nice one bedroom apartment, on the ground
floor and at the end of the complex. The pool was a nice size, and there was
generally enough lounge chairs around it for everyone. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">On one of our days, we took the Bula bus ($8Fjd) around
Denarau to check out all the resorts. It was nice to get an idea of what they
all look like, checking out their pools and restaurants and shops. It was a
good way to spend a couple of hours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We really enjoyed having the marina such a short walk away.
We went over for lunch and dinner every day. For our lunches we ate them all at
Lulus, as there was a nice variety and the price was good. For dinners we ate
at Indigo’s (Indian) twice as it was just so yummy! We also had a dinner meal at
Condos, which offered typical bistro type meals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">While staying at the apartments, we made use of the Spa
facilities. We got pedicures and on the travel home day we got shoulder, neck
& head massages after checking out of our room – just to keep us in the
relaxed mode as long as possible!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We enjoyed a few hours in the warmth of Nadi International Airport before boarding our flight home, where The Zookeeper realised that although our flight over was a lovely 4hrs, it was going to be 5.5hrs going back home.......</span></div>
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<br /></div>Bubbles and Spankyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17907251832202209110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516623685187639333.post-21413806881066966202012-06-13T15:34:00.001+10:002012-06-13T15:35:03.599+10:00Brownie crunch<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For Granddads birthday party, I decided to make some brownies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I<b> love</b> brownies. <b><u>I love them a lot.</u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I can not eat nuts, so I like it when I find a good brownie recipe that doesn't require nuts in it (most of them end up really good because they always have good amount of chocolate in them).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For the birthday party, I decided to experiment and combine two of my favourite foods - brownies and choc chip cookies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I made two types. I tried brownie on bottom, cookie on top and the opposite (cookie bottom, brownie top).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Almost everyone at the party tried both, and the general opinion was that the brownie on the bottom, cookie top worked best (although all where happy to eat it the other way around!). It was just that with the cookie on top, it baked a bit better and had a better 'crunch' to it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So, here is my recipe for a <b>Brownie Crunch</b> (brownie bottom, cookie top):</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><u>Brownie Part:</u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- 90g Butter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- 80g Dark Chocolate</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- 1cup caster sugar</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- 2 eggs lightly beaten</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- 1/2teaspoon Vanilla Essence</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- 1/3 cup Plain flour</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- 1 tablespoon Self Raising Flour</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- 2 tablespoons Cocca Powder</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- 30g Dark Chocolate, chopped, extra</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><b style="background-color: white;">Cookie Part:</b></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- 70g Butter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- 1/4cup Caster Sugar</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- 1 Egg (an extra egg may be needed if they are small)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- 1cup sifted Self Raising Flour</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Choc Bits (up to you how much you use & what type)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><u>What to do:</u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Turn Oven on slow (about 160deg C).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Line a slice tin (approx 20x30cm) (I just use baking paper).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Make Brownies part - Melt butter & chocolate in saucepan until smooth (don't boil!). Cool 'til just warm. Stir in sugar, Eggs, Vanilla, Flours, Cocoa. Add extra chocolate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Most people have a 'fave' choc chip cookie recipe - this is just one of the few that I have in my recipe book and I choose it because I felt it would make just the right amount of cookie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">(note: all measurements are in Australian Cups/spoons)</span></div>Bubbles and Spankyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17907251832202209110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516623685187639333.post-16956811615227354392012-06-05T13:49:00.000+10:002012-06-05T13:49:49.180+10:00Mischief............<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During the week, some rattling around in the kitchen could be heard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maggie got called out to, but didn't come, so going to investigate, this is what was found.......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was empty and in the 'to go out in the bin' pile, but she still had to investigate.....</span>Bubbles and Spankyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17907251832202209110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516623685187639333.post-35297728787274679872012-06-01T11:53:00.000+10:002012-06-01T11:53:23.125+10:00Happy 85th Birthday Granddad<div style="text-align: center;">
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The family held a birthday party for him last Sunday, with almost the whole family in attendance.</div>
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It was an afternoon tea, we took with us some chicken sandwiches (they where gobbled up very fast!) and also some brownies.</div>
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Lucille even got a special sandwich for after the party as he was going off to a swimming competition.</div>
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It was really nice to catch up with everyone in the family. A couple of cousins came over from Adelaide for the party and all the cousins went out on the Saturday night for a catch up & some drinks.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In just over 3 weeks, The Zookeeper and I (Spanky) are heading off on a nice tropical holiday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This came about around 2 months ago, when I decided that I wanted/needed a mini holiday in the sun, as i didn't take any time off over Christmas & New Years. If Bubbles and I both went, it would obviously cost us twice as much as just one of us going, so with his blessing, I asked The Zookeeper if she would be interested.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Interested indeed! she already had 2 weeks leave booked for June so it would all work perfectly!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I quickly booked our flights as Air Pacific had a sale on. We are taking the lovely midnight flight out of Melbourne on a Saturday, and coming back home on the Thursday of the following week - 11 nights away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The plan was to try and not spend too much on this trip, but still get out to an Island. The Zookeeper asked for a couple of things, if possible: walking tracks, food options (she's Vegetarian), a pool, a beach, some sort of village/day trips. Most importantly, she wanted to be able to sit in a pool drinking cocktails!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So, think cap on, i thought of Musket Cove Island Resort and it's 'hotel rooms'. Patrice had stayed in these a number of years back, and although they are basic, they are not bad. So, i hunted a few other options, but these seemed the best choice. For around $130AUD a night we get a large room, king bed, single bed, lounge area, fridge, kettle, private bathroom, fans, aircon & deck. Seemed good for us. we plan on picking up some food stuff on the mainland before we take the boat out. The island works well due to the other resorts on the island, so there is other restaurant options. The island is large, so plenty of walks & other beaches. There is a pool, and lots of day trip options as well. First 8 Nights sorted!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Road trips with Miss Maggie are always fun. She doesn't mind where we are going, but is always keen to explore when we get there. She loves the visits to the 'Country Club' where she can get in the pool and play on the equipment. She enjoys getting in the car with Bubbles and going for a drive to the YouYangs and going on a 2 hour bush walk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">She is a funny girl when she is let in the house after we get home from work. She comes inside and starts 'talking' to us - we are sure she is telling us all about her day and asking how we could go off to work and not spend the day playing with her!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A while back Bubbles started a project with our old bath tub (</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://adventuresofaandk.blogspot.com.au/2011/08/old-bathtub-part-1.html">here</a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is still a couple of things to do to totally finish what was started. We still need the cold tap connected up in the sink, to make washing dirty hands easier and to also connect the pipe that will run from the sink outlet to the bath so that the waste water waters the plants.</span></div>
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I've got tins in 3 different sizes & shapes. There is a large array of styles, below are just a very small sample of them.<br />
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<br />Bubbles and Spankyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17907251832202209110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516623685187639333.post-52565564234989969262012-04-25T13:55:00.003+10:002012-04-25T13:55:52.981+10:00Easter weekendI know it was a while back now, but life has been busy as always.<br />
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We had a wonderful Easter weekend. We again when to Daylesford/Hepburn Springs for 4 nights.<br />
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We stayed in a different house than last year (and all other years) as we like to change it up every year and try new places - we already know where we are going to book for next Easter!<br />
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We stopped off in Trentham on the way up and had a great lunch at The Cosmopolitan Hotel. The Como Hotel was burnt down a few years ago, and currently runs out of their newly converted horse stables. The whole setting was so pretty. They have a large garden area, and encourage kids and dogs to have a run around. The food was very tasty.<br />
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While in Daylesford/Hepburn we spent our time visiting the markets, walking to Hepburn Springs for lunch each day (with Miss Maggie of course), Bubbles & Maggie took a number of large walks (10+km), we lit the fire and enjoyed reading and catching up on 'rest'.<br />
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It was another wonderful weekend in the twin towns, looking forward to visiting again next year, hopefully its just as relaxing ;-)<br />
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</div>Bubbles and Spankyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17907251832202209110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516623685187639333.post-69691874564324557922012-01-22T15:19:00.000+11:002012-01-22T15:19:02.420+11:00Healesville Sanctuary Visit<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the weekend we had an invite from The Zookeeper (Bubbles’ sister) to come visit her at </span><a href="http://www.zoo.org.au/HealesvilleSanctuary"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Healesville Sanctuary</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, where she works. She had Saturday off, and wanted to show us around. We took Patrice (My brother) and Lady L (his girlfriend) with us.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We set off from home at around 930 and arrived at Healesville just before 1030 and meet The Zookeeper at the gate. </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our first stop was at the Platypus area. The Zookeeper works here and is the Sanctuary’s Platypus Keeper. We where taken around the back behind the main exhibit into the tank/work room. Both Bubbles & I have seen & touched the Platypus before, but this was a first for Patrice & Lady L, but what was a first for all of us was to be able to put waders on and join the Zookeeper in one of the tanks!</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We then went to feed the turtles & eels that are looked after by the Zookeeper. I was able to feed one of the eels, which the Zookeeper was both happy and not happy with. Happy because it came for feeding from the clamp, but unhappy because she hadn’t been able to get it to do that.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We went to the midday <em>Sprits of the Sky,</em> in the Flight arena. It was very cool to have the birds flying low over our head. After the presentation, The Zookeeper took us to say hello to the keepers who do the show, so we got a up close look at some of the birds.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We stopped off to check out the Koala talk after lunch and meet with the keeper there who Bubbles & I have meet before as she and The Zookeeper are good friends. She told us to meet with her at 3pm for a special visit.</span></div><br />
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</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After walking around all the backstage area, it was 3pm, so we headed off to visit Amy for a special visit with a young Koala that she is raising. We had a chat, had a pat and some photos. This koala is being hand raised so that it can be used as part of the Magic Moments that the Sanctuary is doing where visiters can pay to get special time with some of the animals. A Platypus session is planning to be introduced sometime this year where you get in the water with The Zookeeper & Yani. Just like we did (we did it as part of trialling to see how it would work).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TXXD66Zjc5U/TxuJU6FPoYI/AAAAAAAAAx4/euWFm-Ar87g/s1600/New+folder2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TXXD66Zjc5U/TxuJU6FPoYI/AAAAAAAAAx4/euWFm-Ar87g/s400/New+folder2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the way out, we checked out the playful Dingos. We learnt that Victoria is the only state that recognised Dingos as an indigenous animal and protects them.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a very tiring day, but we got to do so much. We all where very thankful for the time all the keepers spent with us, chatting about the animals they look after, letting us get up close to touch them and take lots of photos. And we where especially thankful for The Zookeeper for taking us on the tour of the whole of the Sanctuary and backstage and for letting us be guinepigs for her Platypus experience!!</span></div></div>Bubbles and Spankyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17907251832202209110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516623685187639333.post-60987607134495284362011-12-21T16:12:00.000+11:002011-12-21T16:12:30.405+11:00Christmas Parties<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">We had a busy weekend just pass us.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">It was filled with lots of Christmas parties!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">We went to Bubbles' work BBQ, which as good and we just finished up before a big storm came.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Then, we stopped past home, picked up Maggie & the picnic food and headed off to the park for the Dog School Xmas party!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">It was a nice afternoon and Maggie was very very happy to see all her friends from school after being away for so long. We are sure she is looking forward to the new year and going back to school.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">(This is not all of our Christmas parties - Spanky has already had 3 others, and has 2 more to go, while Bubbles had 1 more!)</span></div>Bubbles and Spankyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17907251832202209110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516623685187639333.post-89367466169125715232011-12-10T11:50:00.015+11:002011-12-13T10:16:28.101+11:00Christmas Wreath<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I found this </span><a href="http://sixsistersstuff.blogspot.com/2011/09/diy-ruffles-and-yarn-fall-wreath.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">wreath tutorial</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> on a blog a while back and decided that i would try to make one for our front door for this years Christmas.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I started this project a couple of weeks ago when i wrapped the polystyrene wreath with red wool (both purchased from Lincraft). Then i left it for a while as we just got really busy and there where other things to do (and i hadn't brought any felt yet for the next part!).</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I brought the felt on Friday, then on Sunday after swimming I sat down while doing the weekly TV shows catch up and finished it off.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I chose to use white & green felt. I cut the felt into strips then lay them out (with the biggest placed on the bottom - and as you can see, i cant cut neatly). I then did a running stitch through them, and bunched up the felt as i went (i used a 'super strong' thread, that i doubled over so it was super super strong). As you can see, i didn't make it neat, which was fine because once its scrunched up, you cant really tell how neat or messy it is. Thank god!</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PPapAnM27Rc/TtwXdzMJ3HI/AAAAAAAAAvA/I6UDoh9TyZA/s1600/DSC_0269.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" dda="true" height="320px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PPapAnM27Rc/TtwXdzMJ3HI/AAAAAAAAAvA/I6UDoh9TyZA/s320/DSC_0269.jpg" width="213px" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once i had done the stitching and scrunching, i tied it all off, chose a position on the wreath where i wanted to stick it on, then whet crazy with the glue! i used PVA as that's all i had on hand, but a hot glue gun might work a bit better and easier (as the PVA gets a little runny).</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some people liked them because they could send them to friends overseas (and have a little bit of Melbourne). Others liked them because they had only sons at home and it was more 'boy-ish'. Others liked them just cause they liked them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, along with the hundreds of glass magnets to be made this month (because i sold over 450 magnets at the November Ivanhoe Makers Market!!) , i plan on making more of these.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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This last week, Maggie got a treat. <br />
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Brand new Pools!! and it was just in time, as we had a hot day the day after we brought these.<br />
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As soon as Spanky put these inside from the car, Maggie hopped into them and had a bit of a rest.<br />
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The next day, one of the pools went outside as it was going to be warm. Straight away it was used. As a drink bowl.....<br />
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On Friday, we decided that it was time for Maggie to get out of the house and yard and go for her first walk in over 5 weeks.<br />
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Bubbles got her ready and she was very excited and could hardly sit still with the prospect of leaving the yard!<br />
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It was only a 10minute walk, but she seemed so happy to be out and about. We have since taken her out each day, but still only for short walks. We will gradually build up to longer, we just don't want to push her too much.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We managed to keep her 'resting' for two full weeks. A couple of times each day we did some leg exercises with her and encouraged her to start using her leg properly (try telling that to a dog! - you find yourself outside with her in the yard talking to her, saying "Maggie, use both legs." "That's it, put your foot down." "Slow down so you can walk on both legs." etc. and just hoping the neighbours aren't out in their yards listening!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">When we went back to Dr Harry to get her stitches out, he had a feel of her leg, and told us "something isn't right here, there is too much movement". So the next day, Spanky & Maggie are back to see the Orthopedic Vet who did the surgery. She had a feel around, and also felt there was too much movement. The likely reason was the Maggie had popped out the pins holding her tendon in place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Another 2 days later, Maggie is back at the vets and booked in for Xrays, with probable surgery that afternoon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">From the Xrays, it is found that she had popped both her pins out (one above the knee cap, and one below) that are holding her tendons in place so her knee cap is in the right spot. The vets have no idea how she was able to walk at all or use the left leg, but she was and she also was showing no pain at all (could comfortably get her leg up behind her ear to have a scratch).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So, she had surgery again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">She now has longer pins in place and some wire to hold them in better. The vets think that just due to her size and the strength of her quad muscle she had popped the pins out within a couple days after the first surgery (there was no bone fusing, which tells them it was early on).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Its AMAZING how well she is now walking. Within a day post surgery, she was using her leg almost like normal and at her 4 day post op check up was walking perfectly, and only hopping a little when wanting to run. It makes us realise now that how she was after the first surgery wasn't right, but at the time we thought it was ok.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We had to do a mad scramble to organise some people to help dog-sit her during the day as we had limited notice that she would be having surgery. The Golfer & Teacher (Bubbles dad & mum), </span><a href="http://adventuresofaandk.blogspot.com/2011/08/presenting-miss-brydie-christopher.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Lucille</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> (Spanky's brother) and </span><a href="http://adventuresofaandk.blogspot.com/2011_02_01_archive.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Giggles</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> came to the rescue and helped out when Spanky couldn't get the day off work (Bubbles was away interstate).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Last night we visited Dr Harry again (bit like De javu) and got Maggie's stitches out (again) and as of today, she is back to spending her days outside in the fresh air, watching the birds and snoozing!</span><br />
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This week Miss Maggie went to the Vets for a visit and overnight stay.<br />
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We had noticed a while back the sometimes when she is playing and running and changing direction a lot that her leg seems to lock up fully extended. After a few hops, it unlocks and she is all back to normal. She isn't in any pain when this happens, and will happily come and have her leg checked out.<br />
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We mentioned this to Dr Harry (her vet) when we went in for a checkup. After a bit of investigating and checking her over, he told us she had Luxating Patellas. Basically, her knee cap moves out of its little groove, and dislocates, locking her leg up, until she pops it back in. She has it on both legs, but worse on the left one.<br />
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This is pretty unusual for a border collie, as its most common in small and miniature breeds of dog.<br />
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We got a second opinion from the orthopedic specialist at the vet clinic, who then sent us off for another option at a specialist centre. All agreed that it was luxating patellas (for a while there was a worry that she might have had something wrong with her back as well, but all is fine there).<br />
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So on Wednesday, Maggie went to the vets and had surgery on her left knee. All went well, and the vets where very happy with how it all went. And on Thursday morning, Spanky went and picked her up and brought her home.<br />
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Maggie looks a little naked, with her left leg all shaved. The surgery site looks pretty good though. She isn't trying to lick her stitches, although we think its annoying her that she cant scratch her head properly. She is getting around well, when she is standing still she is has the left leg down to help balance and although not using it to walk, she is toe tapping with it.<br />
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Its currently fun trying to get a 1.5yr old energetic border collie to 'rest', but by being home with her its helping.<br />
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So, for 2 weeks, she is to rest up and do very little (we have someone home with her the whole time to try and achieve this) then she will have another 4 weeks with reduced activity (but will have small walks that build up to bigger ones). She will need the right knee done, but we have to see how long it takes her to recover from this one before we book the next surgery in.<br />
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It will be interesting watching the hair on her leg grow back!!Bubbles and Spankyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17907251832202209110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516623685187639333.post-18733809167978258762011-10-20T09:01:00.003+11:002011-10-20T09:03:24.936+11:00Briar Hill Spring Fair<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-z5nd5OVUJb8/Tp9IJeymKGI/AAAAAAAAAlU/7B0dv9kl50s/s1600/238-1309696925000.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" rda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-z5nd5OVUJb8/Tp9IJeymKGI/AAAAAAAAAlU/7B0dv9kl50s/s1600/238-1309696925000.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This Saturday is the Briar Hill Spring Fair.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This Spring Fair is an old fashioned family affair opening with a Maypole Dance presented by the children of the school. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is also a central stage featuring children's performances, including strings, recorder, singing and drama. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stalls include bric-a-brac, cake stalls, homemade lemonade, children’s woodwork, craft and story tents, jumping castle, pony rides, yummy food stalls, cafe and LOTS more!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will be there having a stall selling magnets, and some of my fellow Ivanhoe Makers Market stall holders are also having stalls. Fingers crossed that the weather stays nice and that it's a great day had by all.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To get to this resort, you have to fly via a small prop aeroplane. You know, the type where they really do weigh your entire luggage, and then they weigh you so that they can try and keep the aeroplane even.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had about 3hrs to kill before we could check into our flight back to Melbourne, so we left our luggage at the airport and walked out of the airport and over the road to a hotel and had some lunch and a couple of drinks and watched some Rugby on the TV. Nice way to kill a couple of hours. Then we headed back the airport, checked in for our flight and went and sat in the Airpacific lounge til it was departure time.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was nice to come home, but im sure we could have happily done a couple more weeks away in Fiji easily!</span></div>Bubbles and Spankyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17907251832202209110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516623685187639333.post-61923550090284725792011-09-23T15:13:00.000+10:002011-09-23T15:13:15.668+10:00Fiji (Part 1)Well, we are back home and in the ‘normal’ routine again. Why do holidays always seem to speed by too fast? <br />
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We had the most wonderful time in Fiji. The places that we stayed at where great, very luxurious and we are glad that we splurged a little and whet to them.<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">A while ago i posted about the places that we would be staying at. Well, that all changed. But we still went buisness class there and back. For the price that buisness class is, it was very worth it. we were able to sleep, use the qantas lounge, use personal inflight entertainment etc. Bubbles even slept on the flights!</div><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">We first stayed at Vomo Island Resort, which is about 1.5hr boat trip out to (or about 10min by helicopter). We did the boat trip as we landed in Nadi at 6am, and the boat was at 830am, so the timing is good.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">We stayed in a hillside/garden villa which was very spacious and had a lovely deck to sit out on.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The resort itself is on its own island, with no other resorts or villages on it. We basically spent out time resting, reading, swimming, eating, snorkeling (well, Bubbles did), sleeping and eating some more. Bubbles liked the snokeling trips that went over to Little Vomo Island the best.</div><br />
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The food here was AMAZING!! Lunch was a 3 course affair, Dinner was 4 courses, and Breakfast was almost anything you wanted (they even did lobster omelette's!!). Dinner always started off with a small tasting of soup; at first we where a bit sceptical, as the air temp was still in the mid to high 20’s, but these soups were soooo goood! We could have happily eaten a big pot of them and nothing else. But if we had done that then we would have missed out on all the other food! After most meals, you almost had to roll the two of us out of the restaurant!<br />
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The beaches were great. The sand was so soft that when you stood on it you would sink about 20cm, even on the wet sand! Because there are lots of beach options, we found that if one side of the island was windy, we would pop over to the other side and it would be calm. <br />
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We did the hike up to the top of Mt Vomo. It is recommended to do it early morning or late arvo. We did it at about 3pm. We knew it would be hot and tiring. And it was. We had such red faces during the hike, and also for a while after we finished. We took up water with us, and boy did we need it! The view was wonderful though and we took many photos. <br />
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We enjoyed having drinks at the Rocks Bar, that overlooks Little Vomo Island. And the Meke night on the Thursday night was lots of fun.<br />
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