Surfers Paradise

G'Day Mate!

I've been a bit behind on videos due to many reasons, one being moving back to Scotland (which I might talk about more in another post;) This means I can spend more time blabbing on my blog.

In January, my parents and I went to Gold Coast in Australia for the first time. This was a pretty special trip for me as it had been 12 years since I had been back, as I was in Perth the first trip; Secondly, since I was about 8 it had always been my dream to come here (maybe due to the reason I wanted to go to Movie World) there was never really a main reason but I had always bugged my parents about it. So I felt like my 8 year old self again when we landed down under.

(I tried to remind myself throughout the whole trip to take photos of everything, especially everywhere I went to eat, as I loved all the food there (big Italian community); but it was mostly me eating the beautifully prepared food then realising my fails)

The amazing sunrise outside my window 

We got to the hotel first thing in the morning so I had some time to myself with this amazing view
(I finished fault in our stars, can't wait for the movie so I can review both!)

Smarties Cookie

Passionfruit Ice Tea

We did try and find dolphins but none popped up,

I loved doing this half day boat trip as we met a lovely filipino couple,

which meant a lot of chatting and photos. We also had lunch on the boat, fresh prawns, salad and chicken; i'm going to sound like a broken record, but all the food throughout the whole trip was delicious.

Did a bit of snorkelling, we got to feed the fish some bread, pretty exciting 

The amazing sunset on the way back to the dock

(Dreamworld)

Mr Joey, totally cheesing

Little dance parade, scoobydoo and gang^, Tweetybird v (fangirl'd a little)

We ventured to Movie World, Dreamworld and
Wet and Wild (which I didn't take any photos due to crazy weather :/)

OOTD + The Mad Crew - Top - Vintage Giordano, High-Waisted shorts - Topshop,

Shoes - Nike Free Run 5.0, Hat (bought the day before) - Oakley 

(Dreamworld)
BuzzSaw, felt a bit loopy after this one

(Dreamworld)
Probably the scariest but shortest ride I've ever been on,

all i'll say it's indoor for a few seconds...

(Movie World)

Arkham Asylum, From Batman, Dad and I were at the front for this one, Brilliant!

Hollywood Stunt Show with cars and motorbikes, seriously some talented blokes! 

The Tiger Show,

You could see how taken care of these animals were,

the relationship between trainer and tiger was truly an amazing experience and really worth watching. 

The last time I was in Australia I was still 6 so I was still to young to hold a Koala,

so I did the touristy thing and did it thing time around

After a long day we just had a nice buffet at the hotel, it was seafood night, 

but honestly the dessert table was truly scrumptious, 8 different types of ice cream and array of toppings; I had a definite food baby...

The last day we had a relaxed one,
I tanning day (to cover up the horrid tan-lines that I have been sporting.)
We went to the night market by the beach,

which I highly recommend as there is seriously everything there, they had a lot of home made food and home grown fruits which mum and I defiantly bought half of the shops!

Panoramas of Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast and below of the man-made hotel beach.

If you have any questions about the trip or if you're going yourself then I'd love to give you a few tips and places I went!

Hope all is well and ttyl

Heather

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(Disclaimer: All the photo's are my own)

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