Sally is pleased to report that the Ozzie tooth fairy came and left her $2 which is apparently the going rate for a tooth down under.

Karen had some really fun things to do today, namely shopping, washing and ironing - yippee (not!).Not to mention checking Santa's list to see whether we'd been naughty or nice! Chris and Sally enjoyed a bit of down time and watched a dvd whilst the sun was REALLY hot. Once the shade covered the pool they jumped in for the rest of the afternoon - Karen watching on sweating with the iron in hand!

During the afternoon we listened to the weather reports and they explained that there was something unusual upsetting the weather fronts. Apparently Santa's sleigh was on the way! He had also logged his flight path with air traffic control and they showed how far he had got from the North Pole. Luckily for us in Australia he stops here early on in his travels!

We even had a visit from Santa in the afternoon the local firemen gave him a lift and he came around the streets of Mission Beach giving sweets to all the children.

In the evening we decided to check out one of the local restaurants and went to the Greek Taverna ( which also served Malaysian food). Karen ordered a Chicken Laksa and proceeded to break out into a sweat! Chris and Sally ordered lemon chicken and rice. Once eaten, Sally then fell asleep in the restaurant!

Later that evening we sat on the beach and shared a bottle of wine with the neighbours, watched the moon rise and followed it up with a BBQ.

Sally also managed to lose and swallow (again!) one of her milk teeth. So we will need to write a note to the Australian tooth fairy to let her know what happened. We will let you know the outcome tommorrow!

written by  The Wilde Family on December 23, 2007 from South Mission Beach, Australia
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Shaun then spent ages on the phone to Nanny and Grandad sorting out their computer - even when you go to the other side of the world he can't escape work!!!!!

written by  The Wilde Family on December 22, 2007 from South Mission Beach, Australia
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We spent the morning in the pool cooling off from the 32 degree heat ( sorry for those in England, just had to slip that one in!!!). We popped to the local town and picked up supplies for our barby tonight. Huge prawns and chicken kebabs washed down with lashings of Tooheys beer (and coke for the kids).

Back in to the pool in the afternoon and then down to the beach with our beers to hopefully meet some of the locals.

written by  The Wilde Family on December 21, 2007 from South Mission Beach, Australia
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Guess what we did? Yup, wrong airport and panicked for 5 minutes as the one flight on the departures board to Cairns was already boarding passengers! Thankfully a nice lady explained about the other airport and after a short taxi ride we were back on track.

The flight with Virgin Blue was fun, beginning with the announcement of "This is a no smoking, no whingeing and no complaining flight - which includes the toilets which are fitted with smoke alarms and microphones!"

written by  The Wilde Family on December 20, 2007 from Cairns, Australia
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We got to see lots of native Austalian animals and we were allowed to feed and stroke them including a (baby) American Alligator and an elephant.

We all had a fantastic day out, the zoo's atmosphere was relaxed with a real 'hands on' approach with the animals and we thoroughly recommended it to anyone who gets the chance to come here!

written by  The Wilde Family on December 19, 2007 from Brisbane, Australia
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