Gold Coast
Holidaying on the Gold Coast is one of our favourite holiday spots. We often travel here for sports events or just to have some fun at the beach. Here are some of the stories, photos and shared memories from our holidays to the Gold Coast, Australia
Goodbye Ashmore Palms
Sadly, today was our last day of holidays. We say goodbye to our little holiday home at Ashmore Palms. Despite the constant fighting from Emma and Ryan trying to kill each other, the holiday was fairly relaxing and enjoyable. We…
Disco Night
Today was a big day! We started it off with some Timezone fun. The place has had some changes since we were there a year ago. The kids had the most fun on the motorbike game. Declan laid done a…
Morning tea with the Mermaids
Today we had the kids activities down by the pool. Unfortunately, the mermaids didn’t turn up. We still had fun holding Princess, the cockatoo. The staff at Ashmore Palms said she could be about 30 years old. The oldest living…
New years day Parkrun
We welcomed in this new year with some more parkrun fun. Just when we thought it couldn’t be anymore fun, we were “pleasantly” surprised by being able to do TWO parkruns on the same day, one right after the first.…
New Years Eve
Ashmore palms were offering a free shuttle bus service to southport to see the fireworks and new years eve concert, so we decided to go and check it out. The fireworks were at several locations throughout the Gold Coast this…
Face painting
Today’s activity was face painting and colouring in. Emma got a dolphin and ryan a dinosaur. We went back to Pacific fair shopping center to pick up a few things and then headed back to the apartment to get ready…
Sand Art
One of the reasons we decided to come back to Ashmore Palms is it is a very family oriented holiday park. Not only are there the birds to see, there is a different kids club activity on each day. Today…
Night markets
We arrived at Ashmore Palms for our holiday and checked into our home for the next 9 nights. We had prebooked the free shuttle bus to the night markets which left at 5.00pm and returned us at 8.30pm. The kids…
Gold Coast Marathon 2019
Belinda and Lorraine are running in the Gold Coast Marathon this year, so we stayed on the Gold Coast for the weekend. We found a cool little place called Ashmore Palms. It is a very family friendly holiday park with…
