2 sneaky day trips for Caleb!

Poor Blake is to little to do lots of the fun things so we have each snuck out with Caleb for a sneaky day trip.  First was buggy riding with Dad and then horse riding with mum!

Day one - buggy riding

Caleb really wanted the photo souvenir - he got it with his saved up money.  

No idea what the two of them were doing here! But any way :) they got to visit the big budda on the way.  They drove their buggy all the way there on the road - lucky mum wasn't there to stress out!! 

Derryn enjoyed the off-roading much more - but wished the buggy had more poke!  Caleb said daddy was driving a bit crazy and the told him to slow down.  

Caleb got to sit on the (poor) baby elephant.

It gave him a nice "hug" around the neck with his trunk! 

 Day two - horse riding

Mummy and Caleb's day out! Sounded like a grand idea! I love horses and all .... 

All kitted out and ready to ride. They whisked us super quick on to the horses without even a greet with the horse or a pat.

This was my not so happy horse, he kept trying to run away from the person who ended up walking and leading the horse the whole way lol! 

  Caleb said it was as good as the buggy riding, but I wished my horse was a little calmer!

At the end we got a water with the tiniest straw in it ever 

Caleb was again keen to get the photo ...

First week fun

Wow we have had so much fun this week - our first week of 11 enjoying our family and all Thailand has to offer without working :)

We didnt bring a camera with us - and these are some snaps we go with Blake's Samsung galexy tab :)

Phuket Fantasea

This was a great evening and a must do for families and anyone who loves a good production. 

We opted for the 2200baht ticket each for is and Caleb was 2000baht - Blake was free, which meant he had to sit on my lap for the show but that was ok.  Our ticket included a buffet dinner that was ok but not great.  Before you even get into the show there is heaps to do. 

Everything had a very luxury feel to it! 

This was the best I could do to 'dress up' with my limited wardrobe :) .

Caleb thought this was a great photo op :) 

We got a bag of coi food and the boys really enjoyed this!  

The bag was huge and there were so many fish to look at. 

The gardens were really beautiful. 

That was definitely 50baht well spent. 

There was huge statues and stuff to look at around the park.

We went searching for tigers... Blake found a huge bird.

Blake has been lazy and is enjoying being carried.  Time to crack our Aunty Kim's sling we think! Mummy is going to have one very huge arm at this rate (daddy is too weak to carry him for too long lol) 

Caleb found the cutest exhibit full of (we weren't sure) either rats with tails docked or I said maybe hamsters! 

We found the tigers (sorry about the blurry photo) 

When we left the boys both used some of their birthday money to buy a toy tiger each. 

Blake was excited to see and touch an elephant ! It was very spikey he said.  After dinner the boys used some more of their money to get a henna tatto 

The show was so awesome!!!! It had live animals, explosions, Fluro acrobats dancing and great sets and much more!

Derryn and I both were in stitches when one of the elephants did the biggest pee right at the front of stage and all the dances were also dancing around a big poo in the middle of the stage - small things lol! 

All up the evening cost $210 (not including the toys ) plus $15 for taxis.  Not a cheap evening but well worth it! 

Phuket mini golf

We spent the arvo at mini golf - a great activity for everyone (would have been even better with a big bunch of mates and heaps of beers lol - but two beers and two boys as what it was for us)

It was 18 holes for 220 baht for adults and 200 for kids - Blake was supposed to be free (said kids under 4 free) but that was only if he didn't want a club - yeah right !! Equaled about $35 for all of us -

we had some beers/soft drinks and dinner after and the arvo cost us about $60 all up! 

Mummy actually got in a photo :) 

When we finished they greeted us with super cold cloths - everyone enjoyed them 

Caleb left his around his neck to help him cool off for ages.

We are still working on what the boys will eat... So far rice has been the winner - with meat from mummy's meal - I always wanted to be a vegetarian didn't I !?!?!? 

They did love the carrot cut into a bowl (unfortunately spring rolls were not a winner , chips were eagerly enjoyed lol) 

Daddy had an awesome curry! Yummo! By the way the final score card was daddy 1st and Caleb 2nd - much to Caleb's disgust :) 

The long plane rides

We left our house at 230 in the afternoon to start our adventure - a very long adventure !

Cairns to Brisbane was a breeze - Derryn slept most of the way lucky thing!  The boys were perfectly entertained and behaved with a bag of $2 insects and their tablets.  I was pleasently surprised that Virgin actually provided us with a coffee and juice complementary!  score!

Our bags were sent all the way from Cairns to Phuket so that saved us one trouble.

We then had to wait at Brisbane airport from 7pm untill 1am!! It wasn't as bad as I had imagined.  We walked VERY slowly every where - stopping to look and talk about everything.  A beer, pizza and a Krispy Kreem Donut made the time go a little quicker.

Finally at 10pm we could check into the international airport.  The boys were very excited with their short train ride between terminals.  Caleb was a good boy and he had a sleep on a comfey chair for about 2 hours - Blake refused :)  Daddy had some sleep too.

The Cathay Pacific flight to Hong Kong was lovely.  Caleb continued to sleep for a few hours and Blake finally passed hour for a few hours - Daddy slept for a long time!  After what seemed ages - I looked at the plane map - only to find we were right on top of Cairns!! WHAT THE!

8 hours later we made it to Hong Kong and a quick wait till the final plane ride.  Daddy slept most of it (are you noticing a pattern here!!).

Blake got a little travel sick - While I was waiting in the line for the toilet - he threw up all over me!! Lucky mummy!! Luckily he hadn't eaten too much so it could have been much worse - Thanks to the lovely Elderly Asian man near us who found us a bag to catch the last bit.

The worst bit of the whole thing was immigration in Phuket!!!!!!!!!  we thought we scored by getting to skip the huge lines and stand in the family line - Blake immediately fell asleep in my arms but we stood there without the line moving one inch over an hour :(  Blake is Very heavy !!!!

BUT YAY WE MADE IT !!! YAY LETS START THE HOLIDAY!