Fun fact. Today 7 years ago was Melbourne Cup Day. Also, Ethan/Destructo-Boy was born. He was 1 week early, which was a relief for Kim unlike the 5:15am wake up this morning.

Sparrows eat more at breakfast. The novelty of pancakes and marshmallows has worn off.

Todays surprise was a day at Aussie World. It was the start of the season for this lesser known thrill park. A local primary school was having an excursion but otherwise there were less than 100 other people at the park.

Highlight of the park for Ethan was the log ride, the lowlight was the ‘wasp’ which made him dizzy and upset his stomach. So much so that he wanted to go home.

Kelsie in her usual thrill style loved all the rides and would happily go on any of them over and over and over again.

Kelsie has not learned her mothers pull over and jump onto the passangers lap when there is a spider in her car, and held up the speedway formula fun race untill another compeditor was able to deal with the jumping spider on her car.

A mirror maze was a hit, It would have been interesting to see if Kelsie and Ethan would have made it through without Mum or dads help. They were certainly quick at moving from one room to the next.

Ethan was bitterly dissapointed at dinner. he wanted something special. But with a limited resturant menu and a boy who eats almost exclusively nuggets and chips specail was not on the menu. Then the lack of actual birthday cake (warm chocolate pudding/lava cake) was not in line with birthday expectations. Then to top it all off, his table ballons untied and floated of to the ceiling like his hopes of a perfect day.

Thankfully he really was too tired to carry on like Tantrum girl and was quite happy to get to bed and fall fast asleep after a story.

Tomorrow we fly home and have to get back to daylight savings time, no pool, and slightly less nuggets and chips.