Saturday

Today has seemed like a very long day since I opened my eyes just before 6 am until now - it's after midnight. And since I managed to clock up over 15,000 steps later ... I can honestly claim that it was a very long day indeed but it was a great day.

Because there was no rushing off to work today, I managed to do almost double my quota on the walking machine this morning - made easier because I fired up the DVD player and watched an old science-fiction series Earth 2. I can't really remember much about it except that an advance party land on a far-away planet to ready it for the colonists who will follow. But the best-laid-plans often go awry ... giving way to a television series where an alien species makes it appearance by popping out of the earth too.

Next up was Coffee Sisters with Pearl (she came with us), M (she came from the gym) and Mouse (she was on her way to pick up E from Mi and F's). F reports that he was intending to drive past to see if we were there but changed his mind - so he wasn't with us. And neither did he come for a walk in the dog park with us - although he usually just comes for the breakfast or coffee anyway.

The afternoon saw M and I finally getting to the waste transfer station - although not the one at Molendinar - which we missed by a couple of minutes - but at the Mudgeeraba one, a very nice attendant talked M through reversing the trailer and helped us lift the walking machine out of the back of the trailer and over the higher-than-a-metre guard rail. (Possibly he was in a hurry to get home and had a feeling we were going to be a while without help.) It was good to finally get rid of the old treadmill and the box that the new one came in - although now, I can't help but wonder if it may not have been a good idea to check the box before it was thrown out to see if the missing instruction manual was in there. (Surely there will be one somewhere on the interweb.)

On the way to the tip, I was checking something on the interweb (not the manual) on my iPhone when all of a sudden the LandRover swerved almost out of our lane - luckily not throwing the trailer off - and by the time I looked up, M had already successfully missed the slitherin' carpet snake that was slowly making its way across the road. Hopefully the cars following us and the ones coming in the other direction also managed to miss it.

The evening saw us take ourselves out ... yes, on a Saturday evening. We went to a dance in Nerang - and it was much better than any of us dared think. It was interesting too, because dances don't usually have Treasure Hunts ... and some of the items to be found were odd - a plastic cup, a belt, a phone number (not yours), something or someone starting with L, a plastic cup - which you only found out about after you tipped the barman with a gold (chocolate) coin ... and the list went on! It was definitely an ice-breaker though! The only thing that wasn't impressive - and this was pretty sad because it was a dance afterall - was the choice of music.