Yesterday morning I woke at 5am and got up at 5.30. Around 6.30am Sienna and I went for a drive to the airport and picked up LisaJ. We drove back home and went to a local Coffee shop to have breakfast. We both had bacon, eggs, toast and coffee. I also had tomato with mine. Sienna chose baked beans.
From there we went to the Post Office and I picked up a bunch of DVDs which had been sitting there for a couple of weeks. There were many DVDs I bought from EzyDVD for $1 each. They were from the first and second seasons of the X-Files. I also got a DVD with Dylan Moran doing standup comedy. From there we came home and Sienna got into her swimmers and we went to her Swimming School. She had a great time and must be doing well since we got a phone call on the way home later to say she has to be moved up to the next highest class because she has surpassed the one she is in. That means her classes will start at 8am instead of 10am. Ack! Well. That’s the time she was swimming last year when we lived out near Ipswich anyway.
We came home and had a shower and had to quickly drive out to Ipswich to pick up a Xerox Docuprint N17 laser printer I saw advertised on Freecycle. It’s in good condition but needs some more toner at some stage. It’s fine for now, tho.
I brought it home and we had lunch then Sienna had a nap. After she finished that we jumped in the car and drove to Springfield Lakes to see a concert. Rikki Lee Coulter was singing on stage but there were no rides apart from a little train. The only other stalls had food or drink and that was it. Pretty boring, but Sienna loved playing in the playground with the kids. Climbing on the big spiderweb type ropes and back down again. When it got to 6:15pm we decided we needed to find something else to do for an hour as they told us the fireworks would start at 7:15pm. We went to a playground near where I used to live and she played there for a while as LisaJ and I chatted. When it got to 6:50pm we jumped back into the car and headed back to Springfield Lakes. We found a patch of grass near the lakes. LisaJ ascertained the fireworks would not be near where everyone else was crowded. In fact, the fireworks were fired from the middle of the lake. The fireworks started at 7:30pm and they were loud and spectacular. Sienna loved it. It was the first time she’d seen fireworks and she was very excited. I took a lot of photos and some movies which I will upload here and on YouTube later. From there we came home and had a quick dinner and it was off to bed for Sienna.
This morning we got up and I needed to go shopping to pick up some new pillows and Sienna wanted to swim so we bundled into the car and headed off down the Gold Coast. We went to the Pacific Fair shopping centre and bought the pillows and some clothes for Sienna as they were discounted. We went for a ride on the shopping centre train because Sienna loves that every time we go there. She remembered before we got anywhere near the train. Sienna and I also had some icecream and she drove a kids car around the playground at the shops. From there we headed back up to the pool near home with the slides and Sienna had a fun time sliding down the slides and jumping into the deep end of the pool off the starter blocks again. She has no fear of water that girl. A good and bad thing, as you can imagine. We came home after that and Sienna went to sleep. I’m about to wake her now to go to the local club. Sienna loves it there and we all want to get out to have dinner for the evening. Should be a fun time.
