The big event on Saturday was the anniversary party for Bruce and Elaine, Robert’s parents with lots of rellies and friends in attendance. It was great to see Robert’s relations especially his grandparents again. I had a yarn with Donna A whose pithy responses to Robert’s Face Book messages are a source of amusement. Oh course the meal was delightful, prepared by Woody's Cafe chef Anthony and the canapes and deserts were far too delightful!
scrumptious petit fours
The chocolate fountain for marshmallows, musk sticks, etc
Poor old Josh fell off Jess’s bicycle on Sunday - why was he riding hers? – No brakes on his at the moment. We spent some time watching Jenny get Jess ready for camp - one very large suitcase with pillow, sleeping bag and blanket on one side and clothes on the other. It was nearly as big as Jess.
We set off fairly early on Monday for our long postponed trip to Sydney to see Mick and Eileen to drop off some things we have been carrying for them since Canberra. On the way we talked about the iPad and what we wanted to do about it. We talked some more about it with Robert and Jenny that night.
Those conversations led to Tuesday’s purchase of an iPad 2 64G WiFi and 3G (the whole 9 yards). This is not as easy as it sounds. We visited 4 stores with lots of phoning round and reserving. JBs (two stores combined to deliver the goods finally). Then with a lot of help from Robert and Jen’s man Walter we managed to get the chip and to get started on the use of our new communication device.
Wednesday saw us on the road again with a Woody’s packed lunch – of course there were profiteroles. We arrived back in Casino about 7.30 and were tucked up in bed by 9.00pm. All our gear was undisturbed.
Housework loomed – dam, the housework fairy doesn’t do all those mundane chores just ‘because we’re on holiday. So, on Thursday Anne washed while I collected the mail and did some caravan work. I changed over the toilet from BioMagic to whatever the new stuff is (Yeah, I did read the label). We later had a club dinner and shopped at Woolies to get some food. I have down loaded the camera but did not have any great shots from the time we got the container till now on it. I am on the list for a 1 1/16” socket to do the hot water service (HWS) while we do a cook-up tomorrow.
Ready, set, cook-up
Friday dawned with a bit of fog and cold enough to make us want to move on. Anne got the cooking underway – corned beef in the dream pot, spaghetti bolognaise sauce, apricot chicken and chicken and mushroom casserole in the electric frypan - not a bad morning’s work. We packed it into meal size containers and froze some of it. Thanks to the young bloke in Repco who “couldn’t do anything right at school but converted the inches to millimetres very accurately” I found the HWS did not need any attention and spent the rest of the day packing the car and the van ready for departure tomorrow.
Round about Friday night we got out the map and sorted out a destination for our next stop. The pin landed on Bribie Island. Close to Brisbane, on the coast dry forecast and warmer temps. Then, as we did the final pack and hitch-up on Saturday morning, Anne did the ring around to book us into the last site near the island – Queensland School Holiday bookings ruled out our first 2 options. First job at Bribie – sort out an itinerary and book it!
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