From byron bay we went back up the coast to spend christmas with my family who now live in Buderim just south of noosa! Gorgeous area, loads of lovely beaches within a mile, a really good shopping mall (which we went to on a rainy boxing day for a bit of bargain shopping but came home empty handed - we only seemed to like the things not in the sales!); a really nice house with a pool (which gav and little daisy made very good use of!); where we had a fantastic week!

we also had our first roast dinner here - at a carvery restaurant and it was delicious!!! we pilled our plates so high it was almost falling off - dad would have been proud! in this first pic we took a day trip out inland to see some waterfalls and i really wish i'd written down the name because i really can't remember! it was a bit rainy but the walk and the waterfalls were lovely! we saw some wild kookaburras and lorchids (parrots) too flying around! on the way home we stopped at the big pineapple - out here they have lots of big plastic things like bananas, mangos, prawns, crabs, bit crazy but cool!

Im sure you can guess where we are here! we went back to steve irwins zoo and im glad we did because we saw so many animals we completely missed the first time - and we got to have our pic taken with a koala! ahh, it was so soft like a teddy, im sure the wild ones aren't but it really was as cute as it looks! and heres daisy feeding the kangaroos, they must have been fed a lot this day because they weren't all that interested! still we had fun feeding the farm animals and the elephants, watching the tigers and the crocodile show! funny, it wasn't until we were about to leave i realised we hadn't seen any crocs apart from in the show so we went for a quick peek at agro and made our way home!

had a really fantastic time with my family, theres another pic to come from a different cd to show xmas auzzi style - was fantastic!

hope everyone back home is ok, miss you all, sara and gav xx