Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Well another busy day - well, a busy mid-day at least. We took ages to get ready and when it was around 11am I was ready to leave. I was planning on phoning Terri-Ann to talk to my boys when Mike said it was after 8pm in Orangeville. I told him it was only 7pm and then I realized the mistake I had made: Queensland does not do Daylight Savings Time, so although Orangeville is 16 hours behind Sydney, it's only 15 hours behind Hervey Bay. So, by the time we would have gotten to the phone booth, Colin and Caleb would have been asleep. Sheesh! :-) So, we went to the phone booth anyway and were going to call Krystal and Jennifer to see how they were doing. When we got there, there was a man using a concrete saw to cut through concrete on a renovation job being done right next to the phone booth. So, off we went towards town.

Our first stop was at the library - we wanted to get library cards and I wanted to find out whether they had a book club. I enjoyed the one I used to belong to in Bolton and I was hoping that I could join one here. We got our cards with no problem using our driver's licenses as I.D. I talked with one of the librarians about the book club. They actually have a number of book clubs, but only one that meets at the library. The woman told me that that book club was full, but that if I emailed her, she could tell me about other clubs in town. There is a 'book chat', but that's just people getting together over a 'cuppa' (cup of tea) and sharing with each other good books that each have read. I prefer to read a book and then get together to discuss it. So, I will email this woman tomorrow and find out about the other book clubs and then contact them and find out about the February book since I won't be here in December and January. Before we left the library, we borrowed seven dvds which we can have for three weeks.

Our next stop was to Blockbuster's Video to get a card from them. Again we used our driver's licenses and our rental agreement from the granny flat and we were issued a card. We then rented 6 movies - they are only 99 cents on Tuesdays and they are good for a week. We didn't rent any new releases as we would have had to return them tomorrow and we wanted to stay home tomorrow. Besides, there wasn't much in the new releases that interested us - and what did interest us, we had already seen (mostly on the planes we have travelled on in the past while).

Loaded down with our 13 videos, we walked home. I find that it's much easier to walk to town than home. :-) One thing is that we went a different way getting to town and it was more flat than the way we came home. And by the time we had walked to town and then all around town, we were tired and it was all I could do to put one foot in front of the other by the time we were almost home. My feet were sore and I couldn't wait to get my shoes off. On the way to town, the sun was shining and there was a beautiful strong breeze blowing. By the time we came home (at 3pm), the sun was shining even stronger (it reached 33C today) and there was less breeze, so we were sweating really well on our way home. I love the heat, but I love the breeze with the heat even better. :-)

We spent the rest of the evening after dinner watching the dvd of the first season of the tv show 'MASH'. Mike and I used to both watch it when we were teenagers and we really enjoy watching it. We watched 7 episodes and it was really nice to 'go back in time' and just relax after our busy day in town. We are doing a lot of walking here in Hervey Bay on the days we don't have Julianne's car and, although it hurts our feet, we really do enjoy walking and feel that if we keep doing it, our feet won't hurt so much after a while.

Now, you think we would be losing weight (and maybe we are with all this walking we are doing), but we are also enjoying a very nice Australian cookie that we love - Tim Tams. They are two cookies with chocolate in between them and then they are covered with chocolate as well. They are sooooooooooooo delicious and they are sooooooooo hard to resist. But, tonight, we finished them all up and we won't buy anymore, so hopefully, the walking will do its job and we can get back into our pre-cruise clothes. :-)