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Got to getaway



It always get to this point in the year when you've just had enough of work and desperately need a holiday, even though the Christmas break is just around the corner. Well this year we recognised that we just needed to get away a few weeks ago and booked ourselves into the most amazing house for a week at Peregian beach. This beach is not far from Noosa but a million miles away in terms of its laid back approach.

We were lucky enough to spend a week with just the three of us rattling around a giant house on the beachfront with days filled with nothing more than walks along the beach, swims, delicious meals, baby cinos, snoozes and some drinks in the evenings.

I think one of the best parts had to be our early morning walks along the beach. Once upon a time a holiday would involve a good sleep in. Not so with Ollie bear but you do really get your value for money when your days are twice as long as the average person. Most mornings we embraced this by taking our bucket and going for wanders along the beach. We set out to find shells but soon worked out that it was way more fun to chase down crabs and there were so many of them that the game never got tired.

It was great to see Ollie's confidence on the beach grow. The first morning we took him there he was so scared of the noise from the surf that he clung desperately onto Nick's neck but by the end of the week he was toddling along the sand all by himself, hardly even looking back to see if we were there.
We did get a bit of rain on our trip which is a bit disappointing but we used this time to get a bit of Christmas shopping done. This was awful and undid all the good relaxation (luckily I went and got a massage to sort it out again!) fighting against all the crowds, but it has to be done. We thought we'd use this chance to get him in to see Santa for a photos. Stay tune for n ext week's blog to see the photo. If you can't wait check it out on Facebook.
The surprise highlight of our trip was catching up with Aunty Alicia & Uncle Guy who were literally 10 minutes up the road for a wedding. We all went out to dinner on Sunday night and the following day they joined us at the rockstar pad for the day, getting to enjoy Ollie's company. As always, Ollie was completely besotted with Uncle Guy and took great delight in playing games with him like hiding the toy plane under the cushions, or the perhaps less successful, hide giant Uncle Guy under the cushions. But they both appeared to have a great time in the process.
Ollie loved the beach house so much that he was quite inconsolable when we left and continues to ask for his beach house. Luckily we brought back some beautiful framed photos and a bunch of the shells we collected so hopefully he will be able to recapture some of that beach vibe at our own little beach house.

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