Saturday

Siblings at the station

We were all up early this morning - M was off to her deep water running and we were getting ready to take Ch to the train so he could catch his plane back to Hong Kong. He was due to fly out at 10:30 so we had him on the 6:49 train. That left us over an hour and a half before we were due to pick Mouse up for breakfast so off we went to the beach - to watch the water and the activity that seems to gravitate there. Sooz spent some time watching two guys at the car parked in front of ours pulling on wet suits - which looked like very hard work. Who knew they were so hard to pull up and position just so. And then they were off - running down the dune and across the sand to the water.

Fruit plate post-Lamb

We were ten minutes early to Mouse's and waited across the road for her - until it was time. She must have been watching out for us though because she called out to us saying "Coming" - and there she was.

Breakfast was good. We went to One50 at Bundall, across the roads from the Gold Coast Arts Centre ... yes, the same place we went to on the morning of the "dead body, vomit and degloved hand" conversation. There were none of those this morning. And there wasn't an An either. She had taken herself off to the hairdressers - and when we thought babout it, the timing wasn't that surprising given she and Syl set off for the States in a couple of days. Vi was there though and she seems to have recovered from her feet operations (she had both done at once even though her surgeon had recommended that she have them done individually) and the better news (for us anyway) is that she is keen to do Trivia in An's place on Monday!

After breakfast, Sooz and I went to Espresso to have Billi washed. yes - No-Name finally has a name! Sooz and I have been working on it for a couple of days and when we were talking about it last night at dinner (Sooz bedinnered us with a fantastic lamb roast) it was M who came up with the name. It works on a number of levels.