30 something.....

Awoke to the sound of little feet outside the door...........Caitlyn, Keela and James had all made Mike really cool cards for his birthday which was really sweet!!

Laura was a little worried looking and I was to find out why in a few hours.

All Mike new was that he had to set his alarm for 7.30 in order to get ready for his surprise b'day present!!?!! The pain of 7.30am on his b'day was soon healed by breakfast in bed and card and present time. Mike loved his presents and was touched by all his cards and text messages at midnight, 3.30am and 5.30am!! and later by the facebook messages (many of which were a little delayed due to it not being my birthday in England for another 11 hours)!!

Once we were dressed and out the door we realised just how miserable the weather was with rain in Sydney- not what we'd signed up for!! Laura was really starting to looked worried!!

On the train into the city Laura let the cat out of the bag and my surprise day that she had gone to great lengths to plan and keep secret was a morning flight in a sea plane around the sydney harbour and sailing lessons in the afternoon in Rose Bay!! MASSIVE BROWNY POINTS TO LAURA- AWESOME PRESENTS!!!!!!!!

Unfortunately though Laura's concerns were comfirmed though and the sea plane was cancelled due to crappy weather!!

Sailing benefitted from the crappy weather and we enjoyed an afternoon learning to sail around sydney.

After which we freshened up and headed to Darling harbour for a slap up meal!! We ate on the water front and had a great big meat platter with ribs, steak, sausage, and tasy chunky chips!! All chased down with a few beers................and cocktails!!

Bit of a late night but not too late as we had the rescheduled sea plane to look forward to the next morning!!

We had no problems getting up the next morning after checking the weather we flew out the door and down to Rose bay for a bit of sea plance action!!

The sea plnc was awesome!! We flew down to Bondi, and back up to the harbour bridge before landing back on the water in Rose Bay. Loved the pilots work!! Amazing feeling coming into land on water!!

Cant be sure we had landed as was high as a kite for the rest of the day!!

31 and going strong!!!!!