Hurricane/Cyclone Oswald

This weekend Jason and I had plans to get away for the weekend to Brisbane! We had a hotel booked right downtown and were looking forward to being in a city with a wide variety of restaurants, shopping and Australia Day (Like our Independence Day) festivities!  Unfortunately, all the excitement for a weekend away came to an end Wednesday night when Cyclone Oswald decided to rear his ugly head! The rainfall began at 6pm on Wednesday and finally stopped on Sunday at 2am. The total amount of rainfall that we received was over 3 feet. All of the roads were closed leaving Gladstone in all directions so we had no choice but to stay in Gladstone and make the most of our 4 day holiday weekend! Fortunately, all of our friends were unable to make their weekend trips away as well so we were all stuck in Gladstone together. However, we did manage to make the most of the weekend by fun in the rain, board games, and a pajama pizza party!