Australia Day 7

Writing procrastination you say? Nonsense! I am merely finishing up something that should have been done 3 YEARS AGO! Now, where was I?

Second to last day of the trip. We ate the rest of the cheese we had bought in Tilba and had some more of the fresh mangoes we bought on the roadside for breakfast. Then we started our day by playing some billiards at the clubhouse, playing tennis in the rain, and going for a swim in the indoor pool with an open hole in the ceiling to the rain. We had fun singing in the rain shower.

After the swim, we got ourselves together and headed out for lunch in Bateman's Bay. We ate at a restaurant called the Hog's Breath Cafe. We had a BBQ beef wrap, mushroom avocado salad, and cheese sticks, and either received a 10% off coupon for putt-putt golf, or received 10% off the lunch for a coupon we got playing putt-putt yesterday (notes unclear, though think it was the latter).

 As you can see, the Hog's Breath Cafe had a lot of rules.

After lunch, we went souvenir shopping. Our first stop was a place called Gifts on the Bay, which if I recall correctly had a bunch of expensive crap that had nothing to do with Australia. Also, walking to the shop, I got pooped on by a bird...a large bird if you know what I mean...I was not in a good mood by that time, but then I forced Scott to check out another shop called Treasures from the Deep. It was pretty much a "Shell World" (for all those snow birds out there), but also had opals! Turns out the owner was an eccentric ex-opal miner who was originally from France. He had hopped a freighter in the 1950's or 1960's to Australia to make his fortune mining opals. Apparently, since then he had made his fortune and then lost it again, and was now too broke to go back to France. It was really an amazing and tragic story, and it was here that Scott bought me my opal.

Unfortunately we still did not have the souvenirs I was looking for, so we headed over to Mogo where the ice cream shoppe was actually open now. While we were enjoying our ice cream a cold front blew in and we retreated inside a nearby shop. They had actual Australia-themed souvenirs! So after buying a good deal of stuff (including a kangaroo that said "Aussie, aussie, aussie! Oi, oi, oi!", and a "real" boomerang), we headed back to the condo for a little nap.

 Can't remember if these pics were on the way back to the condo, or on the way to dinner.

Before heading out for dinner, we watched a little Aussie T.V., which ended up being mostly British programming. We watched a funny British show with a character named Madame Hooch, then happened upon a cooking show with a sexy chef lady who really, really loved cooking.

Then it was off to have our fancy dinner of the trip at a place called the Blank Canvas, which was on the water in Bateman's Bay. I had seafood linguini and Scott had a lentil, sweetcorn, and pea pie. He definitely won in the food department, but we both won with the Barefoot/Bare Cove Radler which was delicious!

 Same beer, different name.

 Showing off my shiny!

 How you doin'?

We still had a little food that we had to get through back at the condo, so we skipped dessert and headed back so that Scott could make us a delectable dessert of apples and rum! We then played games (like FLUXX) until we were both weary and "full of breadcrumbs". Then called it a night.

 Aforementioned stuffed kangaroo playing FLUXX.