Our Noosa Trip - Day 1

Here is the first of my catchup entries re: Noosa.

We all woke up at 7am... It took us an hour to have breakfast, and get ourselves ready and load up the car with *A LOT* of stuff. I don't know what we ended up taking, but the boot of the car was full as well as the backseats!

We left at about 8:40am... stopped off to pump up the tyres and fill up on petrol and by 9am we were on our way up to the Sunshine Coast. Beth was whinging for most of the trip... she just wasn't very happy about being in the car for such a long time and even food didn't cheer her up... although for the last 30 mins, we bribed her with pizza shapes (which she loooves) so that could get some peace and quiet and negotiate the streets of Noosa.

We finally found our apartments (after the GPS sat nav kept making us take strange turns!) We stayed at The Cove Noosa which is a 4 star self contained apartment complex... It was lovely... We had a 2 bedroom apartment, there was a little garden courtyard at the back, balcony with a bbq at the front... plus it was furnished quite well with widescreen tv, stereo, dvd player, dishwasher, washing machine and dryer... We had gotten a pretty good room rate on the internet and also because it is the start of the off season. That said, I think the location of the apartments is worth the extra $$$ because it was only a 2 minute walk from our room to Little Cove Beach and about a 5 minute boardwalk down to Main Beach and Hastings Street, which is the main shopping and cafe strip. So it was close enough to all the facilities to be very convenient without actually being in the hub of all the noise and busy-ness of Hastings Street. Beth was happy at being able to be free of her carseat... so we decided to give her a light lunch and then we went for a dip in the pool. She looooved it... although the water was a bit chilly for Phan and my liking... Beth just splashed around and swam about... and drank a lot of pool water! After about 15-20 minutes, Beth was shivering albeit resisting our efforts to take her out of the pool (she could have stayed there all day!) But we managed to get our way, bundled her up and took her back to our apartment and put her under a warm shower to warm her up. After warming her up, she had a second little snack and then by about 12:30pm we put her down for her nap.

Phan and I just chilled and relaxed... watching TV... reading some of the promotional Noosa stuff we had collected... and then waited for Beth to wake up. Waiting... waiting... waiting... It was a loong wait... esp since we had no food or snacks and only had a minimal lunch and we were looking forward to going out and getting some foodo supplies... 2 and a half hours later at 3pm, Beth decides to wake up! The swim obviously took it out of her! Since we had a bbq at our disposal, we decided to pop out to the Coles at the local shopping centre (Noosa Junction) and grab some simple things to bbq up for dinner... We got sausages, beef patties, corn on the cob (yummy on the bbq!) and potatoes and some vegetables... easy to prepare for dinner. Got back to the apartment, I prepped the vegies up so they would be easy to do at dinner time and then we all headed down for some playtime on the beach. Little Cove Beach is a beautiful quiet little beach... and Beth just made a beeline straight for the waves as soon as her little feet touched the sand. She sat and just loved having the waves come up and wash over her. It was a bit windy... so she only lasted a little while (10-15 minutes) before she got cold and then we had the same battle of convincing her to leave the water... Raced up to give Beth a looong warm shower (we have discovered she loooves showers... she loves having the water run over her head and into her face... she even tries to drink it by opening her mouth... a very funny sight!) Whilst I was giving Beth a shower (no easy feat I might add... she had an amazing amount of sand in her bathers and in her nappy... it was quite a task to clean it all off her!), Phan got the bbq going and started dinner up and then when we came up, I just did the vegies and dinner was ready. Beth was ravenous... eating a bit of leftover pasta from lunchtime, then she had bbq potatoes (but would only eat them if they were dipped in tomato sauce... she's a true blue Aussie!)... then had 1/2 a sausage... some vegetables... lots of corn... she eats so much! Phan and I just enjoyed having some proper red meat for the first time in a while (we had been having a lot of leftover bbq chicken from his birthday when we were in Adelaide and were all chickened out!). Beth was tired and wanted to sleep by 7:30pm... And then Phan and I just chilled out before going to bed early... we felt sooo old, but we were worn out from all the pool and beach activity!