We have had an interesting week, something seemed to be happening all the time. The main thing has been a purchase of a new car. It is a 100 series V8 petrol Land Cruiser, dark maroon in colour with an irredescent fleck and a grey interior. We now can stop worrying about how overweight we might be. We'll add some pics of it. We purchased it from Old Mac in Brisbane, which is a very large Toyota dealership in Springwood. We drove down on Monday to do the deal so that was in itself a lovely days outing which took us over the Gateway Bridge.
We went to Maroochydore on Sunday and worshipped at the Salvation Army. It was a good service based on the theme of "I'm in His hands"
Coming home from church we took a different route and came across this huge castle. We managed to take a picture of it from the outside but we didn't stop. I would have liked to go back but that might have to be another time. The first stage of the building of this normandy, medieval castle began around 1972 with it's first owners Ian and Margo Hayne. and was completed in 1973. (Somewhere in the back of my mind I think I saw something on TV about this place being built)
Two years later a great hall, dungeon, torture chamber and a moat were added. Somewhere along the way it has changed hands at least three times.
Currently it operates as a tourist attraction, function centre and a wedding venue, tea rooms and a souvenir shop plus a self guided tour.
In one of the chambers it has a medieval armoury display with pieces coming from England, Germany, Spain and Italy.
Another chamber holds a purpose built doll and toy museum. Evidently there are more than 2,200 dolls plus the toys.
Bli, bli Castle is pronounced Bligh, Bligh and is an aboriginal word meaning swamp oak trees and It overlooks the Maroochy River.
As we have driven around the Sunshine Coast we have seen all things big. We have come across a big pineapple. a big dinosaur, a big cow and a big lawnmower.
Today we took a drive to the Eumundi Markets. these markest are open every Wed and Sat. It has at least 600 stalls and you can pretty much buy anything and everything. The car parking areas were all packed out and and at a cost of $4.00 a vehicle the local council did pretty well out of it. Today it was packed out so I hate to think what Saturday's crowd would be like.
Saturday night was pretty wild around here. In general it was quite a bit noisier than any other night and we kept hitting the mute button on the TV because it all sounded quite close. Eventuallly it got so noisy we went outside to see what was happenning as the noise got so loud you couldn't ignore it. There was a group of permanent people who were having a bit of a donnybrook. So we stayed at our van and took in what was happening from a distance. The chap beside us (also a permanent) tried to intervene and quieten things down. I was surprised no one rang the police.
Tomorrow we are going to Caloundra for the day. Ken has a cousin (whom we have not seen in many, many years) who lives there so we are going to see her in the morning and then in the afternoon we are catching up with Barry a friend of Ken's who is also on holiday up here.
That's been about it for us.
hope you are all well
with love Ken and Lyn.
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