HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAMA!

Cheers everyone! Let me just start with Sunday night, after i got off the computer i went upstairs and we got dressed to go to dinne. We ended up walking down the street to the Hard Rock Cafe here in Surfer's paradise. It was packed so we sat at the bar. our bartender was from Cali so we chatted for awhile about home. He went around in a circle for high fives unding with me and i totally faked him out with a jellyfish! After hard rock we went down to one of the bottle shops (liquor store) and got some beer for the few days we are here. We went to sleep fairly early so we could have an easy wake up Monday. Monday we walked down to one of the local life saving clubs here and listened to a few stories on saving people. We didn't hear every story because apparently this year alone the live saving club had over 3500 rescues, quite impressive! After out lectures in the morning we were going to head down to the beach, but there were too many clouds and no sun made it much too cold to be in our suits, so instead we went out exploring for a little while! Last night we had a big group cookout downstairs by the pool where 20 of us grilled hamburgers and hotdogs. We went to sleep early so we could rest up for our surf lesson today! In the morning we went to a bowling alley which is completely different from the ones back home. It's like lawn bowling but apparently there is an age requirement of about 65 to be a member! There were all these little old people with their custom lawn bowling balls and gloves with different colored balls who were really intense! W epaired up with some old people to learn how to play! After bowling we ate lunch and then went out to the surf! Jessica was a pro-she stood up on one of her first tries! I think i won the award for tanking it! The surf instructor was very nice , and she was trying really hard to help Courtney and I, but we just couldnt get past drifting in on or knees. We think if we would have had a little more time maybe we could have mastered it! I got stung by a jelly on my neck, but im fine....i decided i didnt really want anyone to pee on it being so close to my face! We leave tomorrow for Steve Irwin's zoo which should be awesome! I have put on more lotion than you can imagine over these past few days because i think my skin is so used to humidity that it dries out so fast here, and the salt water makes me feel like a lizard! I hope everyone is doing grea back home! Happy birthday mama-have an awesome 50th! Love you!
LOVE and LIOB!
em