Week eight

Today, Sunday, I am back at Hannam Vale and working in the Café.

There is an antique auction going on next door at the Community Hall, and we are sitting here waiting for customers to come in.

Patricia has her first pictures up in the gallery, and they look great.

Is this straight Michael? I can't see your head is in the way

The introductory part of the Gallery is up for everyone to see.

Most of this past week I spent in Sydney, not doing very much. It was raining and miserable, so I stayed at Malcolm’s place and cleaned up a bit.

On Thursday night, we took the engine that Ian had brought down from Queensland off the trailer. That was an adventure in itself.

One side came loose, and Mal was just about to catch it.

Greg and Mal are pleased with themselves; they got the motor safely on the ground.

My main reason for going to Sydney came on Friday.  I took a bus into Sydney from Narrabeen where we I meet up with some of the old Opera House crew; some of them I had not seen for over 25 years.

We had a great time catching up and reminiscing about the good old days.

We all got a few years older and not necessarily wiser.

Mind you, some of us think we have not changed at all. Olga & Werner

Saturday was another boat day. One of Malcolm’s two boats is stored at the farm in Hannam Valle on blocks, and it needed to go onto a trailer to be moved again. The problem was that when it went in there two years ago, there was more room.  Now more things have accumulated around it, and there is not that much. It took quit an effort to get the trailer under the boat; this thing is heavy.

Lots of calculating going on, I stay well out of it.

In the meantime, Malcolm found one of the boat residents.

We think the reason for it being there were the other residents, the Rats.

In the meantime, Roy and Luke cleaned some of the yard around the kitchen at the Café and made more picnic style table & benches, and we made the courtyard look more like a German Biergarten. I just can’t get away from it.

Ein Prosit der Gemuetlichkeit

Already 3 days

Wow as time fly's we have been here for three days, and it feels like weeks. That's a good thing.
We arrived here on Tuesday local time and made our way to where we staying by train, ferry & bus, an easy ride even with all our bags.
We took it easy for the rest of the day and went to sleep at about 6:30PM and got up at 7 the next morning.
It was Patricia's birthday here in Australia and we celebrated by visiting the Opera or better said a play at the Opera House.

Funny play we went to see

It was great to go over old territory and I even meet Ann & Ivan, both of whom have been working there since 1973.

Nice place to relax

We found a perfect way to loosing a few pounds quickly 

After the play we spend the next few hours checking out the town and waiting for to go back and see the Opera Mac Beath. You could call us cultured now.

Jon & Linda, and how about my handbag

Yesterday then was a day to see friends, Jon and Linda took us for lunch at Bondi Junction and after that we went to see Liana & Steve and the QVB in town.

Patricia had a great time taking photos at the QVB

The evening Mal went to get some Tai food and we spend the time sitting and talking.

Patricia had two days of Birthday celebrations, one for Australia and yesterday for the US.

Today is easy, we rest and work on the computer, writing blog etc., the weather is not very inviting to go out much.

Tomorrow Malcolm will drive us to Johns River where we will be spending the next few weeks.