Bli Bli Castle, looking exactly how you'd have drawn it!
Wrote my travel diary before getting up. I think I waffle too much when I write things like this!
Me and Lisa went through a load of leaflets, well mainly me anyway, about what was in the local area. There were a few I had my eye on, but I'm only here till Saturday (probably) so we surely won't get to do them all. I needed to go shopping; I needed to buy mini-cassettes for my camcorder, so I suggested going to do something else nearby.
After watching a bit of TV, we drove off. Lisa has a car that's even older than mine!! It's a '73 Toyota Corona and it's pretty much a classic! It works too, sounds it's age but apart from the awkward seatbelt which was not designed for someone of my build (!) it was pretty good!
We went to the nearby town of Maroochydore; apparently it's on the coast, not that I noticed. It's the nearest decent shopping centre to where Lisa lives. All we actually went into was the shopping centre (a pretty big one); we had a look around for a shop that would sell tapes - found a couple and bought two, along with an electric plug adaptor. Paying by credit card is pretty hi-tec here, you type in your pin and everything! One day we'll do things like that. In some places they're even toying with a voice recognition system!
Had lunch in a food court area. Much more choice than in any food court shopping centre that I know; even bigger than the one in Macarthur Glen (Mansfield). We chose to have a pizza slice, garlic bread, and a coke. Then we decided to have another one. Lisa's attitude to food is cool; "eat it" lol I can certainly cope with that!!
Once we'd eaten (fab it was too!), we decided to visit something touristy. Bli Bli Castle is a bizarre entity - it's a purpose built small medieval castle!
It's recently changed ownership and there are going to be medieval fayres in August. Although it only looks small on the outside, it's quite intricate inside, with towers and passageways everywhere. Inside there's actually quite a lot to see, including dancing dolls (although the music wasn't working) all dressed up in clothing of many different world nationalities, a whole room full of play-dolls (eg Barbie) from around the world, diorama depictions of a number of fairytales, a small dungeon complete with cartoons, and a train set, amongst other things. There were also a couple of towers to go up, spiral staircases which in my younger days I wouldn't have tried! Lisa kept commenting that it could be worse - could have to carry a kid up them! The view wasn't too bad; it could be seen just how much Bli Bli had expanded over the past couple of years.
We spent a little time at Bli Bli Castle, before having a drive around the local area. Lisa took me down past where she used to live, the house in Bli Bli, which is down a dead-end and quite a way away from the rest of the town! The road led to the river, and the very last few bends were nothing more than gravel track. On the way back down the road we went past a small nature reserve which, when we have more energy (!), we're going to go back!
After pausing in Bli Bli centre (one row of shops and a car park), we went back home. Spent a couple of hours typing up my travel diary then went online to send/check mail and do stuff. Lisa kindly typed my travel diary as I read it out - well I'm used to my writing and she's used to her keyboard so that makes a perfect combo! Hopefully she'll do it again!
Had a bit of food, then later we had a proper run through the leaflets. We've now got a couple of our days planned out but of course everything changes sometimes!
We stayed up quite late, watching TV, flittering between Aussie Big Brother 3 (which Anouska - evictee week one in UK BB 4 - will enter on Thursday), and some darkly depressing French film, before going to bed around 2am.
Deaths ; Katherine Hepburn (at 96 years old). One of those people I thought had died before - but I'm probably thinking of Audrey!