Visitor from afar

Yikes just realised how long it has been since I last wrote and how much has happened in that time! Well to start things off, back in August we had a visit from the kid's father and we stayed at the Gold Coast for the duration of his visit (one week). He stayed at my place the last night which completely pissed me off because of the fact that he seems to think it is his right to stay whenever he feels like! I mean, come on, we have been separated for 4 years now and he does not pay regular child support and does not support us, and DOES NOT pay the rent so where on earth does he get the idea that he has a right to stay???? It just annoys the total crap out of me! If I went to Japan for a visit I would not just expect to stay at his house!
Anyway back to the visit, it wasn't too bad and we managed to stay civil to each other for the kid's sake. He brought the kids an old laptop each which they thought was just it and had loads of fun with. Not quite so much fun for those forced to listen to the noise of them though lol! There was a pool there and the kids made good use of it!
Daddy took Mika and Cody to see "Hoodwinked" while I took care of Conor outside. Conor's attention span isn't really long enough to watch a full-length movie yet! The kids loved it though.
We went to the beach and playgrounds and stuff like that too which was lots of fun! We went to a wildlife park too-I'd never heard of this one before and was a little nervous about taking the kids there for that very reason but as it turned out, there was no reason to be. The park was quite small but absolutely lovely-lots of animals for the kids to see, no huge crowds of people jostling you all the time, the park was clean and the animals well cared for and they had a snake show which really thrilled them all! They all had to touch the snake and were just rapt! I, on the other hand, kept my distance and hoped to hell that he wouldn't bring the snake my way and thankfully he didn't!! For some reason the photo of the kids with the snake wouldn't appear after I uploaded it so will have to try again later.
The kids just had a ball though down the coast and weren't really that impressed about going back to school after Daddy went back to Japan.