Thursday

It seems as though we have been "on the go" all the time since Wa arrived. We were very happy that he likes Trivia and came with us to Seagulls on Monday night, and the Tavern last night.  Hmmmm ... still no Podium placement but we are all starting to play much better as a team.  Ri and A-M joined us again this week - so with Wa and Ka who they brought along, we were actually seven on Monday night.  In retrospect, I think that's too big a team for the Seagulls venue ... but at least we know that now. 

On Tuesday morning we took Wa along to L'Etranger in Biggera Waters.  They do a good breakfast there - I like that you can "build your own" ... and everything they have on their menu goes well with the sourdough toast.  There's also a great view out to the Broadwater so it's always a good place to take non-locals. 

There was an almost full moon on Tuesday night so I dragged Wa and Sooz down to the Broadwater to watch.  There was considerable cloud cover so we were indeed lucky when the moon peaked out between the clouds and then rose above the lower ones for enough time to take some decent photographs ... there was even time to play with the camera settings.  And by the time the moon was disappearing behind the clouds again, our pasta was ready to be collected!  Bonus!

Nigey loves her Uncle Wa and she is never that far away from him.  We even found her sleeping in his bed the other day ... no, not "on" his bed ... "in" his bed.  We have never seen her get under the covers before - except when we are making our bed and she is helping (not).  Nigey's besottedness seems directly proportional to Wa's cat allergies!  When he opens his bedroom door in the mornings, she is there waiting for him ... when he comes in from being outside ... she is there waiting for him.  He does pretend to use the spray bottle with her ... which works most of the time .. but that hasn't put her off him.  She even supervised while he was fixing the shelf the oven sits on (which, somewhat surprisingly, had not been installed when the oven was.

Wednesday saw us at Mermaid Beach, having breakfast with M at Le Cafe Gourmand, before we set off for Mt Tamborine ... we were on our way to St Berbards to see ... the St Bernards.  We also managed to see some very cheeky kookaburras there who not shy about swooping ib to steal chips from folk who may or may not have been using their chips as gesturing sticks. 

Then it was off to The Willow Tree cafe at Ormeau where I had wanted to get Wa a slice of one of his favourite desserts - Lemon Meringue Pie.  Now, I'm not saying it is false advertising, or how you would ever police this - but the huge lemon merigue pie they had on display in the cake cabinet was NOT READY. They were thawing it and it wasn't yet ready .. and probably wouldn't be until the next day.  D'oh.  So instead he and Sooz had toasties - which took over half an hour to appear, and weren't (toasties) ... but a couple of pieces (not of each) of ham and cheese on toasted bread ... do these people not know what a "toastie" is?

When you want something done "right" sometimes you just have to do it yourself!  For Monday night, Pe had cooked orange and cardoman bites to share with the team.  They were yummy.  Not to be left out, Wa spent some of yesterday afternoon making a batch of scones for Wednesday night Trivia.  He even took his drill and whisk attachment so he could whip up the cream at halftime so it would be fresh (it doesn't keep well).  Again ... yummy!