Cooly Chrissy Cabaret

We really liked Coolangatta/Tweeds Head Area. One interesting thing is that during Daylight Savings time one half of the town uses one time zone and the other uses another. Kind of bizarre.

Mexican dinner in Coolangata, expensive, (for what we are used to paying for Mexican in the states...) but SOOOO good! 

Why did the hook beak cross the road? 

I surfed the next day and the waves were a bit smaller and nicer for me. I got a couple of good turns on them, then I tried out the kite for a bit, even though there wasn't enough wind to get on the water.

Lockey checking out the waves, he assumed this position often on our vacation! 

Lockey thought he would try to kite

but there wasn't enough wind to get into the water on the board... Sweet storm in the background though!  We had a few good storms, but usually at least a half day of sunshine! 

 We also had grabbed a newspaper to try and find some fun things to do. Advertised in the newspaper was a Christmas Cabaret. There was going to be an eight piece Jazz Band, 7 mystery murderesses, featuring songs from Guys and Dolls and Chicago, it sounded like it would be entertaining so we thought we would give it a shot.



When we found the place, it was a small little theatre with rectangle tables set up everywhere and people were bringing in packed dinners. There were also a lot of septuagenarians and small children everywhere wearing costumes. Then we realized that the "Christmas Cabaret" was really a kid's dance recital. Let's be serious though watching a bunch of kids dancing their life away was hilarious. There were some older kids and even some older grandmas dancing as well -this one eighty year old was givin 'er in her tap dancing shoes, really impressive. Also, if you have boys don't put them in dance classes, these guys were super unfortunate. Like maybe break dancing or hip hop or even ballroom I think would be better than tap and Jazz.



There were some cute little 3 or 4 year old girl dancers and there were some awesome older kids that just danced with every bit of gumption they had in them and Cami had to tell me to stop laughing. If you know Cami and I, usually I'm the one that has to tell her to tone down the laughing. It was a fun evening and well worth the price of admission.

We stayed in an RV park for 3 days in Coolangata, and there was this rad "inflatable pillow" to play on, but is was slippery and it scraped up Lockey's knees pretty good, so they would bother him when surfing, but he's a tough kid, so he survived! 

Our neighbors at the RV park were super nice and would chat us up every time that we came home. They showed us the home they were renovating right behind their trailer and we became quite social with them. They asked us what we were doing for Christmas and after telling them that we were quite happy just staying in our van and having a chat with our families they, invited us to come share Christmas with them. There will be thirty some odd family members and they say that we are more than welcome. We'll probably take them up on their offer, but it's still a week and a bit out.