I hate mornings. Alarms at 5.30 are even worse. After a dinner with Paul and Lyn at the RSL the night before, the early start was not nice. But it had to be done. I decided against driving to the airport though, so we caught an Uber to the airport.

Once we had checked our (small) suitcase in, we went through security. Kaoru had a coffee, but I couldn’t go past a breakfast beer – especially as it was from Warrandyte! So we killed the 45 or so minutes we had, and boarded the plane. Pushed off bang on time – 8.20.

We arrived in Brisbane, got our bags, and then Lachlan picked us up from the airport. Aunty Linda was at Mahjong, and Uncle Owen was at his art class – it was just lucky Lachlan had the week off work and was able to get us. Uncle Owen got home not long after we arrived, and Aunty Linda was another 15 minutes behind. We chatted for a bit, and then it was off to the sushi train for lunch.

We returned to the house, and it started to rain. After a quick check of the air pressure in the tyres, we loaded up, said goodbye and hit the road about 2.30, hoping to be ahead of the traffic. It was a good thought, but no. There were parts of the freeway that we were just crawling on. The 85km drive took us about 2 hours – although we did have a brief toilet stop, and also bought a donut. We found our hotel in the Glasshouse Mountains easily enough, although we didn’t really have views of anything because of all the cloud around. The hotel wasn’t anything flash – especially given we were at Crown Metropol last Friday! But it was roomy enough.

After unpacking a few things, and killing some time, we decided to go for dinner in Beerwah, so drove in to the Beerway Hotel. We hadn’t made a booking, and they put us outside. Luckily there was a heater there, but it was still quite cold. Certainly not what the Sunshine Coast is meant to be! I also had left my jumper in the car, so was able to run out and grab that. We ordered dinner (pizza, and a parma) – pretty average. But at least we were eating – we didn’t really know what we were going to do, or even what there was nearby. We had a chat about house plans.

Back at the hotel, we watched a few episodes of Rikuoh in bed.