Once Sienna woke up we left to find somewhere to eat. We drove to Noosa Heads and popped into The Reef. It’s like an RSL club. I ordered ribs for myself and Sienna. Somehow that got translated into two lots of ribs. Since they only had the choice of 1/2 kilo of ribs or 1kg of ribs I told them I didn’t think Sienna would eat half a kilo of texan ribs. They quickly cancelled the order and refunded me $19. I had my ribs which came with salad and fries. Why would they bother giving a guy salad? It’s not like I had a gf/wife to nag me to eat it 
Sienna was transfixed by the flashy flashy lights in the Pokies room and so were many other kids. Sienna didn’t end up eating any of the ribs at all, but finished off a few pieces of a pizza type thing with garlic and cheese on it. She ended up being a bit sick that night so I can see why.
Once we had finished there, we started heading home but Sienna noticed the kids room so we popped in there and she played Spyro the Dragon on a PS2 and we watched the end of Toy Story 2 on the TV, then someone came in and put on All Dogs go to Heaven (ack! I would have preferred TS2 put back on). We stayed a while and she played with the kids then we headed home to bed.
This morning I eventually dragged myself out of bed just after 8am. What a life! We packed everything up and dropped the key off at the reception and headed back to Noosa Heads to find breakfast. We found a nice little cafe called Sierra and were served by a very friendly Islander girl. It looked like the only place open and so had lots of customers. Yet they still served us quickly and the bacon & eggs breakfast was about $4 cheaper than at CJ’s the day before. I was very impressed. Sienna had cocopops (at $5 for the bowl!) but didn’t eat much of it, as usual preferring to munch on bits of my bacon and eggs.
We left there and headed up to a lookout called Laguna. We had a quick look.. not much to look at, but a few other people checking it out.. then headed to Sunshine Beach where we changed into our swimmers.. well I did, but Sienna had not packed her swimmers when I gave them to her before we left so went in her undies and tshirt. We walked down to the beach and Sienna ran into the water. She had a few near-drownings (well.. big waves washing her off her feet and daddy catching her and bringing her head up before she swallowed too much water heh) and even played in the sand with a baby about 9 months old or so. We stayed for about an hour then walked back up and had a shower at the top of the steps and hopped back in the car. I got changed inside a towel and got Sienna into some warm clothes (dressed her first as she was a bit cold).
We drove to Tewantin and asked at the Information Centre if they still had the House of Bottles or House of Shells (I was visiting all the places my dad took me about 28 years ago). The House of Shells was closed today and they didn’t say anything about the bottles, but Sienna had seen all the boats at the marina where the Info Centre was and wanted to go on one. Unfortunately, there were none suitable but I asked if they had a place to go on a paddle boat. She did know one and we drove off to the U Boat rental place. We paid $18 (which was the minimum — for one hour) and jumped in a boat.. Sienna with a lifejacket on. She did most of the steering and so we went round and round and back and forth until she gave up and wanted to just paddle her hands in the water over the side. I accidentally (ahem) paddled past a topless sunbather and a couple of other bikini-sunbathers a few times and back to shore.
We jumped back in the car and headed for a petrol station where I pumped up the car tyres for the long trip and had a ‘pit stop’ break. I bought some small ice creams (Sienna had a small tub and I had a tropical fruit ice thingo) and jumped in the car again at 1:40pm. After about 20 mins or so Sienna fell asleep and it was a quiet drive back home again. We only had one slow down after the Gateway toll booths and got home about 3:40pm.. a nice drive I hardly noticed. Once I closed the garage door Sienna woke up and has been awake ever since.
Even though we had lots of sunscreen on, I still got a nice tan.. well my face and neck where I had no Tshirt. You can definitely see my tan-line heh. I poured a bath and we hopped in to clean off all the sand. We had a shampoo as well. Since then, we’ve had hotdogs for dinner.. well Sienna ate the meat out of the middle and a little bit of the bread.. and I watched an episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Unfortunately, for some reason my Foxtel IQ box forgot to tape anything yesterday and today I had to set up the XFiles to tape again as it had somehow dropped off my “To Tape” list. This happens from time to time and is really annoying as you have to try and remember all the shows you were taping regularly to set them up again. Stupid box. I missed an episode of Scrubs and the XFiles last night. Dang it! Scrubs was still on the list to tape tonight so I don’t know why it didn’t tape last night. *Sigh*
At the moment, Sienna is just watching a recording of The Little Einsteins tv show. It’s a really good show which teaches kids about music and all the terminology. Sienna loves it.
