Don't - F*$K - with Kieran

After watching Kieran viciously destroy my good humour by spitting and regurgicating the few bites I managed to feed him on the floor, I lost my usual good temper.
His unrefined pallet, lack of taste and his inability to savour or relish quality foods, represent the very height of barbaric behaviour and a direct insult to my culinary feats. And yet, somehow, the bright eyed, self satisfied and prodigically behaving mongrel presents himself as gourmet gastronomist when tasting his foods.
After a mild reprimand I was treated to the furious wrath of a baby scorned.
A barrage of cries pitched at the regions of the brain that host pain was unleashed upon me. The yelps of anger are so powerful; they penetrate bone and made my head explode.
Don't - F*$K - with Kieran! is the hard learned lesson here.

Dollies

My mate David and I, both young fathers, figured it was time to go fishing and leave the ladies with the kids. Of course I hadn't given a lot of thought to the fact that mother's day was this weekend, nor that I had been in Sydney all week. Facts that Emma tenaciously helped me remind. But a man's got to do what a man's got to do.
The fishing was okay until we hit a school of Dolphin Fish, or Mahi-Mahi. These are hunters and have an almost fluorescent green colour, like grass, but more intense. I caught the first Mahi-Mahi and the captain yelled: let it fight for a few minutes, they'll go crazy. And indeed the Mahi-Mahi's get so aggressive that they'll bite at the lure even before it hits the water. We quickly catch 16 splendid specimens before they dive to deeper depths and swim out of range. We see a 60-70Kgs Marlin close to the ship and about 100 dolphins all around us. A great day!
Emma's Mother day dinner was very remarkable, she had Mahi-Mahi off the BBQ till should could eat no more. Deeelicious.

Rainbow beach carwash

Rainbow beach is famous for its fantastic beaches and of course the RainBow-Beach-Car-Wash-Scoreboard. The locals keep a scoreboard of cars that couldn't outrun the incoming tide or got bogged. Judging by the numbers, 2002 proved a very productive year for the local scrap yards and disastrous for tourists, about 30 cars got washed. This year promises to be good too, the count is up to 12. It's quite nasty really, the 11 km beach ends with a very steep rock wall several tens of meters high. When the tide comes in, there is nowhere to go for the car, and it will drown... Hence the Rainbow Beach car wash.

We decide to test our 'Suzi' and make a run down the beach, it's really cool and I tempt fate -encouraged by Emma- by driving through the waves and have water splash up a few meters. The next day we decide to drive on the beach at InSkip Point a little less perilous beach where the car can actually dodge the incoming tide. A very nice little weekend in southern Queensland.