Today we went to Atherton where John had a meeting. Marvin had a nice cuddle before we left and we sampled the first passion fruit from our vine.

We did some Christmas shopping in Atherton. We looked in a very groovy bike shop and the man in the shop let us take some photos.

Varsha and Laxmi had outrageous green Christmas cupcakes for morning tea at a cafe that was displaying lots of award winning iced cakes from the Atherton show.

We looked in at the crystal caves shop with heaps of amethyst geodes and fossilised ammonites and lots of other cool crystals and some really amazing dinosaur sculptures for putting in the garden.

We had lunch at the sushi shop after John finished his meeting and stopped for a swim in mareeba on the way home.