Orange

Dear Family and Friends

I came inside last night to do a quick blog before getting tea but I got side tracked before I could even log in. I'll tell you why a little later.

We commenced the day yesterday leisurely reading and relaxing, with me doing the washing as well (I love my washing machine in this new van, it already has saved us a lot of money). An early lunch and we set off to go look at the stores at Mapleton, except they weren't at Mapleton but at Montville which was a little futher away than I had thought.

If you remember, I said on a previous blog that it was very steep. believe me when I say it was steep it got a lot steeper when you had to walk it. Sooooooooo we decided to look at about half of the shopping area and if time allows we will go back another time to finish it off.. The drive out there was just as stunning the second time around as it was the first.

We've had a morning at home today, as I wanted to do some housework, so later this afternoon we are going to a nut factory nearby as there are lots of nut trees around. We think they are macadamia nuts but we're not sure. They also grow strawberries and pineapples. Our next door neighbour has given us four pineapples, each at different stages of ripeness. The other place that is close by is the Buderim Ginger Factory which we hope to do today as well.

This is the story as to why I got sidetracked last night.

We had a caravan pull in behind us on Wed, and as soon as they parked they headed off in their car and we didn't get a chance to say hello. Yesterday they went out early and were gone all day and we still hadn't seen them to say hello. When they came home they went straight inside and so we still hadn't seen them. When I came inside last night Ken said he would go and knock on their door and say hello., which he did. It turns out that this couple were from Orange (where I grew up) and that the chap new my Dad and had played golf with him and had even beat Dad on the final hole in a competition many years ago. He proudly said he had sunk a 20ft putt to win the the game otherwise it would have been Dad's win. While we were talking to them Bill, the other chap here from Orange walked by and so we called him over and we all chatted for a while.

Small world, and had Ken not knocked on their door we'd have never known who they were.

That's it for now.

Love to all

Ken and Lyn.