Chalky Beach in the Sun – Sunday 10th April

On Sunday, it was bright and sunny. So we went on a boat. It was a big boat with 4 bedrooms and a top that was open. I sat on the top and got extremely wet because the wave were splashing up. When we got there, I swam from the boat to the shore which was a long way. After a while, I went on the small boat and I went into the rubber ring attached to it. It was wet at the bottom but it didn’t go right in the sea because there was bit that you could sit on.

I played on the beach and me & Skyla found coconuts and I found a bit of coral. Then I swam back to the boat and we went home. It wasn’t really splashy on the way back.

Then we had our Donald & Douglas story. They tricked the Wicked Witch of the Wind AGAIN by Glenda the Green Cleaner – because the Fat Cleaner was painting a room green and he fell off his step ladder and got himself covered in green with his paint pot stuck on his foot. And the Wicked Witch of the Wind thought he was Glenda the Green Giant but was in fact Glenda the Green Cleaner!

The Beach in the Rain - Saturday 9th April

On Saturday, I woke up and had my breakfast, went to see Mum & Daddy and played Top Trumps with Mum. Then we went to the beach and there was a special kids club where you could do different activities. One was to make a bracelet. Two was to paint a butterfly or any other thing. Three was to get your face painted. I did all three of them but didn’t do the hoops.

Before we did the activities, I went in the rain and built a cake in the sand and a main course – seaweed and sand. What had you do was to get some sand and seaweed. You made the sand into a circle like a cake. Put some seaweed in the sand. Cover it with sand. Then put it in the oven and it cooks then you are ready.

In the Donald & Douglas story, the Wicked Witch of the Wind came back and they tricked her again with Glenda the Green Giant...but it was really the Fat Cleaner! She heard the noise of Glenda the Green Giant but it was really the Fat Cleaner – but she didn’t know because she didn’t know the Fat Cleaner!

The Big Disasters - Friday 8th April

I woke up and went to see Mum & Dad and had breakfast. Then we were going into town and me & Skyla got into the buggy. I was sitting in the seat next to the driver seat and Skyla was in the driver seat. I accidentally pressed my foot on “go” and took it off “park”. The buggy started to roll backwards so Skyla immediately pressed “stop”. Then Mum came out and said if you take your foot off “stop” it won’t roll away. Skyla said “yes it will”. Mum said “no it won’t”. So Skyla took her foot off the “stop” for a minute and it started to roll away and we were still plugged in. So she pressed “stop” again.

The next disaster was me falling down the steps. I was just walking down the steps when I slipped and went “boom, boom, boom” down the steps. I hit myself on the knee and the head.

Then it went to the last disaster – Mummy pulling my tooth out because I wanted her to. So Mum twisted my tooth all the way around and then pulled it. Then I had to put it in a tissue and Mum looked after it until I could put it under my pillow.

Me & Skyla played with our Polar and Koala and did some colouring. Then we had our Donald & Douglas story about the Wicked Witch of the Wind coming to visit the dragons. They tricked her with “Glenda the Green Giant, after tricking her by sending her to Outer Bulgaria which is a place that doesn’t exist. Then me and Skyla went to bed.

Cuddling a koala - Thursday 7th April

When I got up, I went swimming in the cold pool and then we went down to the zoo where we saw the snake. At 12 o’clock, I held and cuddled a koala. So did Megan. The koala was soft but heavy. I thought it was large enough to hold me. Robert held a snake which I touched and it was very hard.

We went saw the crocodile. It was opening its mouth slowly. We saw the parquet’s and kangaroos. We also saw the koala that I cuddled which was eating some leaves. It grabs on to the tree with its really big claws and then pulls the leaves off.

Then we walked to the ice cream shop where we got an ice cream. I had vanilla with a chocolate flake. Afterwards we got into our buggies and went to the beach. I swam in the sea. It was very warm. [I was telling you to put that in capital letters by pressing the caps lock]. IT WAS VERY WARM. I went very far out but it only went up to my neck. Then Skyla came to the beach too and we went into a swimming pool near the beach. Then we went to another pool and I swam in that too.


I thought Skyla was having pizza but she wasn’t because they changed their plans. So they came home too [and she whispers – I had some crisps]. We had spaghetti for tea and in “Donald & Douglas” the Dad Donald came back from his holidays and Douglas pretended that he hadn’t eaten all the ice cream which he had. But he used the ice cream that his Dad had given him to put one scoop in floor 1, 1 scoop in floor 2, 1 scoop in floor 3, 1 scoop in floor 4, 1 scoop in floor 5, 1 scoop in floor 6, 1 scoop in floor 7 and 1 scoop in floor 8 and that was it.

I went to bed with Skyla since we were having a sleep over again.

Sandwiches and ice-cream - Wednesday 6th April

We built a cubby house and I took pictures of my Koala in different places. Then we had lunch which Daddy made. We had avocado, tomato and cheese toasted sandwich. I did some colouring and went swimming. It was nice and sunny and I did some reading on the really big chair.

Then we had pasta for dinner and went to bed. Skyla has a sleepover for the second night. Dad told us a Donald and Douglas story, 2 dragons who live in his office. They went on holiday but Douglas got left behind and ate all the ice-cream in the office. Then Donald bought him a present which was the biggest ice cream tub that he could find and he went “no, no”. Then I went to bed with Skyla and that was the end of the day once more.

Swimming a lot - Tuesday 5th April

I woke up, had breakfast and went swimming. First in the cold pool and then in the hot pool. Megan did 50 lengths so I did 60 lengths in the cold pool and then got into the hot pool again. Then I got out and did some colouring.

Then we had lunch. I did some more colouring and played with my Koala and Skyla. At the end of the day we went out for dinner and I had pasta and vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce. Then we went to bed and Skyla had a sleepover.

On the airplane again - Monday 4th April

Very early in the morning, Daddy woke me up and I put my shoes on. Then we took a taxi to the airport and went to bag drop and dropped our bags. Then we went to Security, putting our stuff down in a tray and it went through the machine. We met Uncle Adrian at a cafe and I had a chocolate croissant.

We went to the gate and me & Megan went to the bookstore. I got 2 books – they were called Emma the Easter Fairy and Go Girl Sleepover.

We went back to Gate 25 and got on the aeroplane for a 2 hour journey. I spent most of my time colouring and some of the time playing on Skyla’s iPod Touch. She was playing on mine until mine ran out of battery.

When we got there, we hired a buggie and I was in Skyla’s. But then Mum moved me to one without a cover and it was really, really rainy. Finally we got to the house in Hamilton Island. There are 2 houses joined together with a pathway to the door at the top. My room is one house and Skyla’s is in the other. They are both are nearly the same except one has a kitchen and the other has a lounge. I did some colouring and then went to bed.

At the Zoo – Sunday 3rd April

We went to the Zoo one day to see the tigers and butterfly house. In the butterfly house, a butterfly landed on my shoulder. We walked on and I sat on a statue of an elephant. Then we went to see the real elephants. There were 2 baby elephants and they were marching up and down.

Blake got lost. We left him in the Butterfly House – I don’t know what he did there because I wasn’t there. We all searched and then his mum found him. We then saw the Orangutangs and then went to see the Australian animals – some kangaroos, giraffes and zebras, koalas and wombats. The giraffes and zebras actually come from Africa but I seem to remember the Australian Animals sign near them.

We then saw the lions eating and the platypus. Platypus are nocturnal, they swim, they have a big tail, and long beaks, they live in rivers. [What is special about Platypuses?] I said – they are nocturnal! Oh I remember they are mammals but mammals don’t lay eggs and platypuses are mammals who do lay eggs.

We went to get some ice-creams and saw the bears. We saw lots of cats – the snow leopard, the puma and jaguar. To get back, we went through the shop and I bought a Koala which was holding some leaves.


We had dinner with Callum & Blake and we had lasagne and Fiona gave us a chocolate rabbit. That was the end of the day.

Going to visit Ramsay Street - Saturday 2nd April

We packed up and went in a taxi to the Neighbours Shop which was 750 Flinders Street. Then the shop person said to wait 15 minutes so we went to a cafe to get a sandwich. Then we went to the bus which took us to Lassiters. We also saw the bus stop and the place where Lucas works in the garage and a shop that was in Neighbours. We looked through the windows and saw the Police Station. We took lots of pictures.

After we saw all the regular places, we went to the actual Ramsay Street where all the houses are. We got to hold a sign saying “Ramsay Street” and I got to hold it all by myself. Then we got back on the bus and the driver gave us a clue as to which character we were going to meet. The clue was that they only got to kiss the person that they were meant to! We all didn’t know who it was. When we got back to the Neighbours Shop, it was a person who had been on Neighbours a while ago so I didn’t recognise her because she was on before I was born. She let us ask some questions and I bought a Neighbours key ring.

We went back to the hotel where Fiona and Andy picked us up and took us back to their house. I went in the car and was feeling not well. We went to the supermarket and big store. We bought a football and some chocolate Koala bears. Then we went home where Fiona gave me a picture to colour in and if you colour in with no white paper and it is really nice then you can win. I didn’t make any mistakes. [“Can we go on to the evening?”] No I haven’t finished the colouring in bit yet.

Then the adults went out to have some dinner and I went to bed – after colouring a bit more in. Blake was meant to be sleeping with me but he didn’t. And that was the end of the day once more.

Swimming in the sea - Friday 1st April

Today we went on the tram to Brighton which is near Melbourne. We walked from the tram to a cafe where we had a drink and then on to the beach. We looked at all the big houses as we walked. There were a lots of “Grand Designs”.

At the beach there was only a little bit of beach. It wasn’t a swimming pool. It was the sea, in a closed area. There was like a balcony around it which you could walk all around. We changed into in our swimming costumes, went down some steps on to the small beach. It was really cold when I got in but once I got swimming it got warmer. I swam to one of the posts and then back to the other side. I was the first one to get used to it.
Then I watched Daddy to swim to the end and then we all went to the steam room. This is a hot room which people go in when they have come out of the cold sea. Then we went and had a shower and got dressed.

We went to Federation Square by train and went to Chocolate Buddha – a restaurant – had Japenese food for tea. I had tofu steak. We met Uncle Adrian, Skyla and Zac and went to the Saints game. They were playing the Tigers. The Saints were in red, white and black but the Tigers were in yellow and black. We were supporting the Saints because they are from St Kilda’s where we were staying.

It is different from football because unlike in soccer you are able to use your hands. There isn’t a goal. You use hands and feet to get it between the big posts or the small posts. In the small posts you get 1 point. But in the big posts you get 6 points. The one with the most points wins. At the second half time, I went home and went to bed and that was the end of the day.