Weekend thus far

Friday, Josh and I went to town to get a few items and we had lunch at a little bakery that served meat pies. Josh has already had one brought to him at work by one of the guys that lives out at man camp, but I figured that I should try it out. Plus, they were only $2 so it made for a cheap lunch out.

We both choose Meat and Mushroom because mushrooms always makes things taste better.



I peeled the top off and this is what it looked like.


Not too appetizing to look at (especially when you bit it open), but it really wasn't too bad. It was like a beef stew cooked into a pastry. I can't say that we'll be having them too often, but I'm not a real fan of beef stew. It WAS really filling though which is kind of nice when you're only paying $2 for something.

That afternoon we drove into Toowoomba to see a movie. It turns out that 'Star Trek' was actually a pretty awesome movie and I really enjoyed it. We went to the 4:15 showing and got out around 6:15. The movie theater that we go to is in a mall type complex and so we figured that we'd just walk back through the mall for a little bit while waiting to get hungry enough to eat. It turns out that Toowoomba - like Dalby and much of Australia - also has early trading hours and so the gates to the "mall" were already closed at 6:15 at night. That is one of the hardest things to get used to. If you want something from a store after 6pm, then you better hope that one of the corner stores has it because every major place is shut down until 8:30 the next morning.

When we parked the car in the afternoon, there had been plenty of cars in the parking deck. Not as crowded as when we went up on a Saturday, but still pretty active. When we left, it was only our car in the section of the deck.



(That ghost-like face is me trying to find a place to eat on our GPS.)

We went ahead and went to a restaurant in Toowoomba which was pretty good - though the service was terrible as usual. It turns out that servers here get paid about 18AUD an hour and so it's not really necessary that they work too hard for good tips (most people only tip if the service was exceptional). Combine that with the fact that most Queenslanders are fairly easy-going, laid back people who enjoy lingering over dessert and a last pint and you can be sitting at the dinner table for a bit. I had the enjoyable task of driving the 75 kms back to Dalby in the pitch dark.

Yesterday, we stayed close to home all day. We did make it over to Sharlane's house to pick up golf clubs so I think that we're going to hit the course this morning.