Adventures in Hervey Bay: Sunday, 25 March, 2018

Another week gone by - and they are going so fast here in Perth. Dad just completed his fourth week of teaching on this course and he is looking forward to a break after this coming week - we will have a week off as another instructor will be teaching that portion of the course. Then, he and Dad will teach the following week together and Dad will teach the final week of the course on his own (the last two weeks of the course are hands-on tasks).

My week was busy as it has been every week since we arrived in Perth. I went to all my gym classes, continued on with my strength training exercises and did Tai Chi and my knitting group at the Seniors' Centre. A woman in Hervey Bay has asked me to make lap blankets for the seniors who come into the hospital. I tried knitting one, but it was taking so long. I much prefer knitting to crocheting, but crocheting works up faster, so I decided to start crocheting a blanket. I was telling some ladies in my knitting group at the Seniors' Centre about it and they offered to photocopy a pattern which they use plus teach me how to follow the pattern. I started when I was there on Friday and have done some more since then. The pattern is very easy and I was able to catch on fast. Once I get a bit more done, I will take a photo and put it on the blog.

On Friday, my friend Thea and I spent the afternoon together celebrating both our birthdays - hers was yesterday. We started off by having lunch by the pond next to the Leisure Centre where I was doing my exercise class; then, we drove to a mall and had a manicure (I love being pampered 😃). After that, we had a thickshake from a premium ice-cream place and our last stop was the movie theatre where we saw a movie called 'Game Night' (funny, but in a weird way - it was rated for being 'comically violent' - have never seen that rating before). Just an aside: movies are very expensive out here in Perth - it cost $21. to go to this one. It was a nice way to spend the day, for sure. 😊

Ferrero Rocher for my birthday - yummy - and yes, I did share them with Dad 😊

Muffins and pop (with plastic champagne glasses) which Thea brought for us to have after lunch - a toast to our birthdays!

Our view at lunch time by the pond

My manicure - very pale pink nail polish - I find that I am rough on my nails, so the polish chips quickly and it is much more noticeable on my finger nails if the colour is bright (like my beautiful bright orange toe nails are from my pedicure a couple of weeks ago

Thea with her very bright green nail polish

My decadent chocolate thickshake

Movie poster of the movie we saw

Yesterday, Dad and I went geocaching again - it was such a good day to go as it was cloudy, but warm. We searched for 12 geocaches and found 11 of them. When we got home, Dad checked out the comments of those who had attempted to find that unfound geocache of ours. A number of cachers said that they had looked under a cement block which I had tried checking under - Dad said he didn't think it would be under there because it was set solidly in the ground and a hole had just been dug under one side of it. A few of the cachers said that a red-backed spider was in the hole when they were searching (they are very poisonous), so they hadn't attempted to put their hand into the hole. We were happy that we had given up on that one!

View of Perth from one of the geocaches

While walking to one of the geocaches, we came across this old stone foundation of a house which was in the middle of the woods - it's amazing to me to think that years and years ago, someone actually lived there - the hole there in the middle of the photo appeared to be a fireplace which was likely where they cooked their food

One of the geocaches we found - hidden in a hole in a tree with the bark to the right covering it

Dad standing in front of a very old bus stop which was beside a path we were walking along to get to a geocache

Beautiful fountain in a pretty lake which was beside a path we walked along to get to a geocache

Me sitting on rubber block with a hole going through the centre along the length of it - there were a number of them in this one area where we were looking for a geocache - the gps told us to go into the middle of this field where construction was going on - when we checked for a hint for the geocache, we discovered the hint said to look for a rubber structure - those who were doing the construction must have moved the whole structure and then just placed the pieces down wherever - we couldn't believe it when we actually found the cache container still inside one of the rubber blocks!

After geocaching, I thought I would treat Dad to an ice-cream from the place Thea and I had gone to on Friday. I, of course, had to try their iced chocolate - I even got to choose the scoop of ice-cream to put in it (I decided on mint chocolate chip) - mmmmm. 😊