DAY FOUR

Ok so we were very excited and were up at 3.45 am for our balloon trip. This is Dave when we knocked on their door. Being a bit early in the morning it took me a while to see the sign but we all got a good laugh from it and headed off to catch the early bus...Well to cut a long story short, when we got to Mareeba we had to stop and see where the launch site was going to be etc...The pilots have to do this every morning....It was pretty windy when we stepped off the bus but we were in high spirits and thought yep it will be fine....Well it wasn't.....5% of balloon trips get cancelled throughout the year andwe were one of them...We were so upset....Well I am not sure about Steve...I think he was a little relieved....He had to take a bit of convincing to do the ballooning in the first place...He has a thing with heights. But here is a photo of the sign....We are trying to pass it as us in the balloon!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is as close as we got to the real thing....The basket....
So we got back to the resort very early and had a yummy breakfast at one of the gorgeous restaurants along the beach and then had a relaxing day by the pool. Here is a shot of some of us with yet another pressie......Our lovely soft robes...with our initials on them...Again very spoilt. That evening was the best....We ent up to the table lands again and ate with LIONS...... No joke they were so close to us with only a fence and 10000 volts between us.... My battery ran out so haven't got too many good shots of the little pussy cats but I will never forget that experience......

I think the karaokeing on the bus on the way up also helped to flatten my batteries!!!

This is one of my fave photo's from the karaoke session that Nic and I organised for the trip up to the Lion's Den! It is the lovely Makeesha with her being true to herself....Can you tell I watch Idol...Singing Girl's just wanna have fun!