Three Days In

Three days into 2024 and so far so good.

A quick-ish trip into The Bay this morning.

BGWLBH and I decided to have breakfast in town and after much discussion, we decided on Cafe Balaena because we like the marina and because I wanted to buy some crab meat from the little shop behind Urangan Fisheries.

On the way there, a farmer was parked on the side of the road on the esplanade selling trays of mangoes, so we quickly found a parking space and I dodged heavy traffic to run across the road to grab one of the remaining 5 trays.

There were 4 people behind me so she would get to return home earlier than expected. I estimated that she had sold 25 trays ($30 per tray) already. Good for her!

Our next stop was the new bakery on Dayman Street for a fresh loaf of sour dough bread. It was BUSY! I could barely fit inside the shop with the other 25 people waiting to be served. The tables were filled, inside and out, with people eating hot pies and sausage rolls for breakfast. Very popular.

We arrived at Cafe Balaena smack on 10am and asked for a table for two but were immediately turned away with the announcement that breakfast service was over.

Annoying.

So we decided on the Boat Club. It was one of the worst breakfasts we’ve ever had. We saw it come out to the counter, but it sat there while the girl made our coffees and by the time they called us, our breakfast was barely warm, the yolks of our eggs were set, the gf bread was rock hard and the coffee was not hot.

From there we drove around the corner to buy my crab meat, freshly shelled this morning. Yum.

As we usually do, we drove around some back streets checking out houses, looking for “for sale” signs and judging how well maintained the houses and their gardens were to determine the type of neighbourhood we were inspecting.

Lotto tickets were next on our list. We couldn’t find a park near the Scarness newsagency, so we drove on to Main Street, then on to Pialba shopping centre for the butcher, Choice and Coles.

We drove home in fairly heavy traffic (as it was on the way into town this morning) and everyone was sitting on 80km which was weird.

Before we drove home, we stopped at our local butcher, baker, checked the mail and grabbed a couple of grocery items.

We were home before 2pm.

I had played with Harley in the morning and we played again this afternoon.

I cooked chicken pieces in a honey/soy sauce with rice and snow peas for dinner and we played trivia briefly before watching Australia defeat Serbia in the United Cup tennis tournament. 

Surprisingly, the Australian, Alex De Minaur, defeated Djokovic in straight sets! He played brilliantly and deserved the win. Djokovic wasn’t playing to his usual high standard but De Minaur was playing better than his own usual high standard.

Now I think I need to sleep.

Oh and I was impressed with the sound video last night and I’m going to play it again tonight. I’ll keep you posted!

Nite all.