Friday

What a busy couple of days!  Thanks to M we had a couple of nights in at the Casino and that was a wonderful way to start the Australia Day long weekend ... I'd taken the extra day on Friday.   Nothing like a four-day weekend so soon after the Christmas holidays.
We ate at Mei Wei on Wednesday and Thursday night - and it was very nice both nights. I can't help but wonder how poor old Zen is coping with the competition. We would have probably eaten at Zen if Mei Wei hadn't been open.  Or at M & G which is 'Meet and Greet' and adjoins Wei Mei - so much so that you can order from and eat in either.
It's the first time we have stayed in at the Casino so the cloudtops on the beds was a new experience (or such a while ago that they seemed like a new experience!).
They are luxuriant mattress toppers and welcome.your body into them ... and then tell you to feel free to stay as long as you like!  To say you sink into them is not an exaggeration - when Sooz looked over to where I was sleeping, all she could see was my arm reaching for ... I'm not sure exactly what but she suggested it might have been "help".  Although this is a bit of a macabre reference, it did remind me of a scene in a 1960 Alfred Hitchcock movie where the large indent in a bed is a clue that something quite strange and unwelcome is afoot.  It's the same movie where the motel owner is into Taxidermy - mostly birds from the displays in the parlour - and the woman who checks in for what turns out to be quite a short stay is called Marion Crane.
Who doesn't love buffet breakfasts?  We were lucky enough to be at the hotel for two nights and had BB twice ... yum yum and yum again.  I don't care what anyone says, there is something special about having an omelette made for you.  I had a Buddhist - one with the lot (excluding chilli).  I was very surprised at the number of folk who had ice cream for breakfast - and not necessarily on their waffles or pancakes!  And it wasn't just little people either ... but I suppose there's little point in being an adult if you can't have ice cream as part of the first meal of the day.
I'd like to say that we made it out and about for Australia Day but we didn't make dit out if the hotel.  It was great to relax and have unstructured time without the niggling guilt of jobs undone.