Day 117

Day 117 Canberra

Well today did not turn out as we had planned. We were having breakfast and I was finishing off the

Park at the end of our Caravan Park

Cafe 175 years old

blog for the last few days. It was a little behind due to the fact we had been travelling a lot and we had been out late the last couple of nights socialising, so I was catching up, like now. Anyhow, Maureen was on the web, seriously I think she is now more addicted than I am, and there was a show listed at the local theatre, a John Williamson play – When Dad married Fury, and suggested we go have a look tonight if we could get tickets, then we wondered if it was disabled friendly. Up until then we were planning on doing the War Memorial but it was now after 10 am and I was still working on converting pictures and they were taking forever for some reason. At that point we both suggested that maybe we spent

On our way to the theatre

River next to our park

the day doing local stuff and hang around Queanbeyan for the day, great minds think alike!

I finished off the blog and Maureen was doing stuff in the van and we went for a walk down town. On our walk through the local park there were a couple of groups. One was having a more traditional morning tea with cakes and stuff and another group were having a different one based on grapes, stuffed into bottles and packaged in brown bags. I thing they were regulars at the park and at that bench and chairs. We went to the theatre and it is perfect for me. It is a small version of the Mandurah Performing Arts but they have a cooler name – The Q. the theatre is between the small Fish Trap and the lower area of the main theatre. There is no up stairs area and I ^nd row seats that we did not have to climb into. We booked those and they were for 8pm that night.

Going to the Q

Part of their heritage walk

reckon it takes about 500 people. The staff there were lovely and very friendly. We asked about getting me in and they said a wheel chair was fine but the gopher was a little big. We chatted over options and came up with a solution where we could park the Beast outside the theatre door and we had 2

We wandered around the centre of Queanbeyan for a while and Maureen said that she had seen an Aldi the day before and she was curious about it and so we set of to find it. We walked down the streets and a couple of questions to locals soon found us there. Aldi is a cross between the Spud shed and WA Salvage but prices are hard to find. People were buying groceries and outdoor settings and whipper snippers and alcohol and just about anything you could think of. Maureen grabbed a few things and we headed back. We dropped into a food area and had lunch and completed our trip back. We had a cuppa and I had a nap. Maureen went out hunting and gathering for tea and came back with prawns and smoked salmon so that was dinner.

On the way home

We walked up to the theatre and arranged where we could park the Beast and went in. the play was excellent. It is basically a family set play were Dad, who has amassed a fortune by swindling investors out of money before the Global Financial Meltdown, has married a girl half his age and the sons think they are going to miss out on their inheritance. Very funny play and a few twists and turns.

We walked back to Girt and that was the night. Tomorrow we expect to do the War Memorial.