With an afternoon flight- managed to get a sleep in, followed by a mad rush to pack bags and vaguely clean up the house. Unfortunately I forgot that we were going to a warmer place so didn’t pack any shorts, bathers, etc… oh well good excuse to do some shopping 
Rang a taxi and waited out the front as time passed getting a little nervous if one was actually going to turn up. After having to direct the taxi driver to the airport – he managed to grab the meter when we arrived at the airport charging us $41.50 – had we not been pushing our checkin time deadline we would have argued about it or grabbed his details – but as it was we had to rush to check in. Funnily enough no one asked us for ID 
They now have a Feeling Fruity at the airport which is a nice idea!
Plane flight was incident free – Virgin now have little screens in the back of everyone’s plane seat, so you can swipe your card and watch tv or a movie. I was tempted but banned! Just as well as I had my new Eragon series book to read. Jase got a “mini” beer and I got my usual Coke Zero.
Hired a car from Avis (Thrifty has annoyed me too much with their inconsistent web site quotes and then not allowing me to book because the credit card associated with their loyalty program had expired (but I had no way to fix this online !)). Ended up with a Camry – boo!! Drove into Surfers – past Broadbeach noticing the absence of the Holy Cow restaurant. Drove past our hotel due to a lack of a right turn into the reception drive. Had to go round the block further up and find our way back. Got a room on the 31st floor overlooking the ocean (and cavill avenue). Awesome view!!! After getting settled we headed downstairs where we found lots of restaurants at the bottom of our hotel. Got fish and chips – I had flake and jase had a Dory. Unfortunately they couldn’t grill flake (go figure!)
Our room had a toilet with no privacy – due to it being in the bathroom.. the bathroom having a see through glass wall so that you could sit in the spa bath with the awesome view. So it made for a lot of announcing when going to use it ! We thought maybe there was like a button you could push to frost up the glass.. but nope – all a bit bizarre. We also had about 6 channels of Foxtel, a small kitchen, laundry facilities, the bedroom, the bathroom with the shower next to the spa bath (but open).. and a massive balcony. Got butterflies in the stomach walking out there and looking down! I tried to take a few photos but struggled to get focused shots!
There was also a supermarket near the restaurants down the bottom so we bought breakfast stuff, water + ice creams! (Hooray coco pops).
