Age Challenged rQQzy: Final Day

Nice to see you!

Three major events occurred for me last year (2010), all in the space of about 2 weeks. I turned 50. The following day I got married. Two weeks later, my oldest daughter became pregnant with her first child and my first grandchild.

Most middle-aged people will tell you that in their minds, they still feel 20 something. It's the same for me.

Wasn't it only yesterday that I was planning a night out with guys from the surf club? That gorgeous new perm. Flaired, cuffed denims and the red t-shirt with the off-the-shoulder frill. Corked platform wedgies. **sigh**

Suddenly I'm looking in the mirror and wondering how 30 years can flash by so damned quickly!

So here I am in cyberspace, sharing my genuine shock and horror with anyone who'll listen and maybe I'll even meet some other over 50s who find themselves in the same predicament!

Welcome to my dilemna!!

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Final Day

Thank you Alfred, for allowing us to finish our mini break, before wreaking havoc on SE QLD.

Adoring Husband and I have a lot of friends and family living on Sunny Coast, Brisbane, Gold Coast and even further south which will also be impacted, so it is worrying and leaves us feeling pretty helpless as we watch things unfold.

Except for very early this morning, when it rained enough to put us off going to Eumundi markets, the weather has been dry and breezy - not too windy, and certainly not like there is a cyclone looming, so we decided to stay here for our final night instead of leaving a day early.

We'll be leaving bright and early tomorrow to hopefully beat the weather and any traffic that might be heading north to escape said weather.

Today was more shopping.

We ate breakfast on the esplanade in Mooloolaba, browsed a few shops and decided to walk off our breakfast by wandering down to the Wharf where normally there are clothing shops and gift shops to enjoy, but today there were signs up advising that they were closed in preparation for Cyclone Alfred.

Disappointing, but understandable.

So we decided to return to Sunshine Plaza and find the shops that we missed yesterday.

I found a great shop called "Dangerfield" that stocked amazing clothing that Chicklet would love so I purchased some sale items (because normal prices are a little high) and I'll send them down with the next letter I write. It is a shop for the weird and wonderful people of the world.

We were there for an hour and decided to stop at Maroochy RSL on the way home.

By the time we left at around 2pm, we were starving so we walked the esplanade again looking for food - most places were closed because of the predicted weather, others weren't selling food until after 5pm so we returned to the Thai kiosk near the Surf Club and ordered Hokkien Noodles with beef, Duck Yum and Fried Rice.

We also purchased 1/2 litre of gelato EACH!!

BGWLBH got half chocolate, half lemon sorbet.

I got 1/2 passionfruit and half choc mint.

It was ridiculous to think that we could eat ALL of that food!

So I've frozen three bottles of water and hopefully we can get our gelato home without it melting.

Now it's time to sleep. Big day tomorrow.