Hunting

for jobs, cars, houses, wedding venues, wedding celebrants - we've got our fingers in a lot of different pies at the moment! On top of that, I'm getting the surf ski wet at the weekends, and I'm trying to piece together a set of holiday video/slideshows to send home. Busy? I guess you could say so :)

Plenty of highlights though:

• top of the list - catching big waves with Nat at Currumbin last weekend. I caught a few 4-5 footers, and managed to hold on to them as well. Good thing too, as if I'd fallen off them I would have been well and truly mashed. We're off up the sunshine coast this weekend, hopefully lots more of the same!
  
• Morticia Addams showing us round Bungunyah Manor House Resort on Mt. Tamborine - a bizarrely Basil Fawlty kind of place, with a strong christmas theme even though the 12 days have long since passed... it would satisfy plenty of our requirements (outdoor ceremony, delicious food, accomodation for the wedding party), but it was just a little weird. I think it's a weird part of Queensland, to be honest. Mind you, the gum trees up there were the tallest I've ever seen, absolutely magnificent. Even if we don't have the wedding there, we'd be taking friends and family up there to tour the wineries.
• Our new phones - these Sony Ericsson K750is are brilliant. The 2MP camera is fantastic for starters, and we just realised last night that we can play mp3s as ringtones. So, in the space of barely 10 minutes, I had downloaded some free wav file editing software (wavepad) and had cut and editted the best funky guitar chops from Groove Armada's Chicago for Skye's ringtone. I had forgotten how much fun, and how easy it can be, to get in there and remix sounds...
• and finally - a troop of rainbow lorikeets keeps coming to eat the berries off the tree just behind the kitchen. They are simply so colourful that they are amazing to see.