Qld Holiday Day 12 - The Gap and South Bank

More craziness ensued today, as preparations and ideas continued to be floated for the "Joining of the Two" tomorrow. Amongst it all of course were the kids, who all decided it was more fun to either be playing the Xbox or playing on their Nintendo DS or playing on their iPod or playing on their iPad. Madness. The electronics have taken over the world. Anyway, I finally tired of seeing it, so I got them all off their devices, and got them all to play Skip-Bo and Uno with me instead. This at least filled in an hour or so before lunch with all the kids actually interacting with each other rather than with a screen.

After several hours of cleaning and organising, it was mid-afternoon, at which point we all headed down to Brisbane's South Bank, where the entire culmination of the Wade and Crotty families were to meet, ostensibly for an afternoon together and a meal.
We headed down earlier than the others, to meet up with Phil, Leaf, Zander and Lincoln so the kids could have some fun in the waterplay area.

Where could they be?

(At back) Maddi, Josh, Jess. (At front) Zander, Lincoln

Two sides of the new family begin to meet up

Soon is was time for the "rehearsal dinner" (as so often happens in America at least). We all headed own to the QPac, where a performance of The Rocky Horror Picture Show was taking place, giving the kids an interesting insight into how these fanatics tend to dress up as the characters of the show. A little eye-opening, perhaps.
As a result, the meals were a little slow to come out, but the kids all passed the time running around like it was Lord of the Flies.

Jess, Katie, Maddi, Josh, Fraser and Veronica

Afterwards, it was time for everyone to head off to bed, to ensure they had enough energy to get through the following day.