I arrived in time to accompany S to the Executive Level for pre-dinner drinks - overlooking Broadbeach and the park where they used to have the snake show every Christmas holidays and where they currently have - five weeks before Christmas - illuminated Christmas trees but then, that's not particularly surprising given all the retail outlets have switched over to Festive mode already - weeks ago in some instances. In fact the Santa Parade was supposed to be on at The Pacific Fair shopping centre this evening - and on the other side of Jupiter's - the AFL Draft was being held at the Convention Centre. At Jupiter's it was the first night of the new magic show which is being advertised with posters showing the magician/illusionist pulling his head off and rabbits sitting in his shirt collar. That's what it looks like but it itself may be an illusion. M and Mouse are going sometime in the next few days so they'll be able to tell us what they see (or what they think they are seeing).
Other activities at the Big House (aka the Casino) included something called The Playboy Scramble - but heavens knows what that was all about. There appeared to be an event for the boys and for the girls. And there seemed to be plenty of people there for it because it was very very difficult to get a car park. I finally managed to shoe-horn Lars into a spot and all I could do was hope that the people around him had moved so I stood at least a small chance of driving him out in the morning.
We joined M for dinner at Spinners where we all had steaks - quite a change from our usual fare. Then, it was an early night for us - including a long-awaited bath for me. By the time I'd finished, and I didn't think I had been that long, I found S was fast asleep.
