Rob and I went our separate ways this weekend – Rob went to Bluey’s Beach with the guys and I had a weekend away up on the Gold Coast with the girls (Annie, Keth, Sian and ME!).

The day before leaving, my colleagues informed me that every year around this time the ‘schoolies’ get out for summer holiday – which means the Gold Coast bars and pubs will be filled with 18-year-old boys (think freshman year spring break in college). Now that isn’t all that bad, but after doing some googling I found it’s quite a big deal and is something to be avoided. ‘Schoolies’ even have their own website!! http://www.schoolies.com/. Fortunately, for us 20-and-30-somethings looking to relax on the beach with a good book, it wasn’t as bad as I would’ve thought. Sian and Keth were smart enough to know to stay off the main drag. It was such a lovely weekend … and was perfect … until we found out our flights were cancelled and we had to drive to Brisbane to catch the next flight out.

Rob spent the weekend at one of his workmate’s family beach house – which was a four hour drive up the coast at Bluey’s Beach. The guys were able to get two rounds of golf in (surprising since it was pouring rain in Sydney that weekend) and even had a very close encounter with a huge kangaroo named Ben (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVU7lG4nx60&feature=youtu.be). Rob also caught an awesome sunset at the Rekky Club.