We were lucky enough to be able to have Julianne's car for the day again today. After dropping her off at her work, we went to Crazy Clark's (like a discount store) to look for a large storage bin to leave our stuff in here when we go back to Canada. We decided to look all around the store so that we knew what we could purchase there for when we get back and have to buy things for ourselves for wherever we end up living. There are a lot of items there that are at a good price and don't need to be great quality (like kitchen utensils, etc.). We didn't find a good deal on bins, so we next went to Big W to look for one. We didn't find anything useful there either, so we next went to Coles and the butcher shop to buy our twice weekly groceries. I really enjoy going to this butcher shop - we only needed a little bit of hamburger for a couple of meals we are having and so it was great to be able to say to the woman at the shop just how much we needed and that we needed it in two lots. The woman who served us had served us last week and remembered that we were from Canada - when we told her we were going back, there but weren't looking forward to the cold, she said that she would love to change places with us. She loves the cold, she told us - she used to live in Canberra and that place is cold in the winter.
We took a few more pictures of Hervey Bay as we were driving around - we still have more to get and are hoping to be able to do that on Monday if we can borrow Julianne's car again. We would like to take a few photos of the places that we talk about in our blog, plus a few of things that we find interesting here (like an empty lot of land right in the middle of a street with houses built all around it). Once we get them all taken, we will put them in a little slideshow on the side of the blog.
After bringing home the groceries and having lunch (we had yummy meat pies and chips from the corner store), we decided to go out to Sam's Warehouse to look for a bin and we finally found a really good one. It's large and really solidly made - we will put all of our stuff here that we don't need to take with us (like sheet sets, papers, kitchen/laundry soap, etc.) and leave it with one of our friends until we get back here.
By the time we were finished with all that running around it was about 2pm and so we hurried and got into our togs (bathing suits), lathered ourselves with sunscreen and took off for the beach. We parked at Julianne's work and went down to the boardwalk. We decided to walk for a bit along the boardwalk until we could find a better place to swim. The boardwalk is a lovely place to walk along - the city has built it so that both pedestrians and cyclists can use it and it goes on forever - it's so nice to walk along it enjoying the view of the ocean and the lovely sea breeze that comes off it.
We walked for about 15 minutes and then found the perfect place to swim - there were also other people swimming there which makes me feel better about going out in the water. We swam there for about 30 minutes and it was so wonderful. The water close to the shore was so warm, it was like bath water temperature. It was so easy to just enjoy being there and relaxing and getting cooled off. There aren't any big waves here in Hervey Bay, but there were a few little ones today and we laughed as they came in and at times bowled us over (well mostly me :-) It was hard to get out when it was time to go - and it was cold walking up to get our towels, too (I know you all feel bad for us about that
When we got home, we played a lot of card games - we really like playing cribbage (loser and winner) and we seem to take turns winning and losing (although Mike says he lets me win a lot). :-) We did watch a little tv - we watched a show called 'Wire in the Blood' - it's a cop show - we had borrowed a dvd from the library of the same show and we liked it so much that when we saw that it was on tv, we decided to give it another go to see if we liked it as much (and we did).
Some time during the evening, Mike went outside to take the swimsuits down off the line and he found that a frog was sitting on the ledge outside our patio door. I looked at the frog and he was so cute - so nice and green and smooth and he was not moving a muscle - I had to check to see if he was real after the trick that Christine played on us with the snake. When I looked at him closely, I could see movement in his throat area so I knew he was real. We watched him for quite a while wondering if he was going to see and eat the spider that was close by, but he made no move to do anything. The spider was big and ugly and so Mike killed it and still the frog paid no attention to it. Mike took a few photos of the frog and the spider and then came inside. After a while, I checked to see if the frog was still there and now there was a brown toad sitting near him and this toad was eating the spider. Mike went outside and took a few photos of the frog and the toad together (they are at the end of this blog).
I spent the rest of the night emailing - I had a few to catch up on and am still working on that - Mike watched tv, played a few games of solitaire and did a few puzzles in a puzzle book that we bought for him. I couldn't believe it when I looked at the clock after finishing up the emails and saw that it was 1am. I didn't even feel tired which was strange as I had been tired during the afternoon since we had to wake up early to be ready for Julianne. I was happy to be able to get an email sent to my teacher friends at school to let them know how things were going over here. Some of them were obviously on the computer when I sent it as not long after that, I received four emails back. I am missed they tell me and they asked me to come and see them when I come back to Canada.
Spider (on the left) and frog on the ledge outside our patio door.
Ugly brown toad and pretty green frog on the ledge outside our patio door.
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