Oct 29 - At sea
A day to recover!
After a late breakfast Mary went to the destination talk on Melbourne while Dorothy started a new book! Wouldn’t you know that two of the books I have been waiting for popped up on my iPad yesterday - and they are both due in 2 weeks!! One is a novel I read years ago but wanted to reread it as the setting is off the coast of Western Australia!
We went to Bruce Petty’s presentation. It was his recounting of oral history interviews with New Zealand citizens and US Military personnel who were in NZ during and after the war - war brides, separations and reconnections, and one story of a woman who grew up thinking she didn’t look like anyone else in her family - only to discover her biological father was from the US and had returned after the war! Many years later someone made contact with her and when she met them and 70 other relatives she realized she looked just like them!!! A biological family she never knew! It reminded me so much of Con’s story - although his story has no military connection, and he never knew about the family we have discovered through DNA!
It was a lazy day! Mary went back to another of Bruce’s lectures while Dorothy relaxed, read, and walked the entire corridor on our floor (almost 800 steps!!!).
Dinner had an Australian theme with items even our Aussie dinner mates hadn’t heard of! For example one of the starters was called a Meat Pie Floater!! It was a little meat pie, sitting in a pool of thick pea soup!!??!! We passed on that! But I did have a Steak and Pepper Pie as my main course. It was tasty but had a layer of m he’s potatoes on the bottom!! Carbs! Carbs! Carbs! If I lived in Australia I would weigh 300 lbs!
The show was loud! Nathan Foley was the vocalist and it was another of those shows with flashing lights, very loud music, and a singer who ran back and forth on the stage and down into the audience!!!! I didn’t recognize one song!
Bedtime again as we have an early day tomorrow in Melbourne!
Stay tuned…
D & M
Yummy! Aussie meat pies are the best. We have Peaked Pies in Whistler and you can get your meat pie 'peaked' which has mashed potatoes, mushy peas and gravy on it. I've had my share of Peaked Pies but never one that has all the extras on it. BUT....then you didn't feel well (maybe the next day) so perhaps the Aussie pies are a bit much. They are super rich. PS now I want to drive into town and get a pie!!! 😜
ReplyDeleteExactly right! Mashed potatoes, mushy peas and gravy! Guess the Aussies in Whistler need a taste of home!
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