Saturday and Sunday August 24th and 25th

Saturday was another slow start to day….booked a hotel for Hobart for next  Friday night and booked an automatic car for pick up on Sunday in the afternoon.  I have decided that I’m not ready to drive manual without a lot of practice in familiar areas (so anyone out there in Canada let me know if you have a manual transmission car I can practice on when I get back)  so I  have  booked a car from Sunday to Thursday for our little road trip.

I was to go out for dinner tonight but it was cancelled so walked down to  Preston to see if I really did book the car or if the booking was in cyberspace.  It had gone through and they promised to have a car for me there on Sunday (it is through Budget rentals but the office in Preston is very small.)

I then caught the train (by this time about 3, in Melb, stopping off at Southern Cross station to check out where I’m going to meet Lori on Sunday evening.  She is flying in from New Zealand at 9:00.  Then walked down to the free City Tram that goes around the city.  I got off on at the nearest station to the Singing Bridge……yes, a singing bridge, that I visited last time I was here but there was no caches there and I loved bridge…..now there are 2 caches! As you walk across the bridge speakers go off and play all sorts of Australian music….aboriginal, folk, rock, kids…..it goes over the railway tracks to the place where all the sporting facilities are for Australian rules football (footies), soccer, tennis, cricket.

View from the Singing Bridge

I found the two caches and then carried on along the river park to Federation Square.  I browsed in some of the stores and then headed home.  Their Saturday night TV is much like I watch at home….the Midsummer Mysteries and Father Brown Mysteries (we used to get this one but now we don‘t)…..they are now advertising a second season of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries starting Sept. 6 here…..it will probably be another year before we get it!

 
Sunday morning I spent reading and relaxing.  About 1:00  I walked over to find a cache that is near here….didn’t find it! Then continued down to pick up the rental car and then pick up a few groceries (Curt is coming for dinner tonight)  I need to go back there to take a picture…..they have a couple of checkouts that are “Kid friendly”….actually more like parent friendly…..they are free of confectionary at the checkout….no candy that the kids will whine about…..I will add it tomorrow.!


 I drove the new car around the neighbourhood for awhile….Only worring about keeping left, keeping left and not worrying about stalling or rolling backwards on hills…..this is so much better!   I got back to the house about 4:00.  Spent a while washing down Joan’s car which I stupidly put under the tree (full of birds) in front of the house……I moved it tonight around the corner where there is no trees!  Curt arrived a little after 4 and we chatted and ate dinner (not as fancy as he cooked for me).  I’m going to go back into town with him about 8:30 and get off at Southern Cross station where I will meet up with Lori.