Wasn't the weather absolutely superb this weekend? Well it was up here, hope it was for you, too. Steve and I choofed off up to Brisvegas around midday on Saturday, getting up to the Mantra Apartments on Southbank 2.5hrs later. This excursion was in aid of seeing two American stars of stage, screen and musicals, Patti Lupone and Mandy Penoptokurion..well that's not his name but it's something like that. They performed at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre which was a 5 minute stroll up South Bank. We ate at a Vietnamese Restaurant before the show and even had a drink at a bar before that. The show was fanatastic.
It seems that every city worth it's salt now has to have its own version of the London Eye. Melbourne has one (though it buckled a bit during their extreme heat earlier in the year) and now Brisvegas has one.
On the way back home this morning, we stopped at Uki, which is 15 mins west of Murwillumbah and 45 mins north east of our place, to have a stroll around the market. As tourist marketing slogans go, I think Uki's isn't bad, and is almost poetic....the little village is glorious and sits uner Wollumbin (Mt Warning).
This pic gives a nice view of the village of Uki which runs along the Tweed River and sits below the volcanic peaks including Wollumbin. It's funny how the past is often echoed in the present....many many years ago, probably about 16 or so, Steve and I drove up to the Gold Coast and we actually stayed at Uki (where I joined a frog expedition for the night and spent much of the night on the flanks of Wollumbin looking for the marsupial frog). I can remember us giggling about how Uki was pronounced U-ki) and now here we are living just 45 mins awy from it. Spooky.
When we got home, Steve set to work doing some carpentary (he's putting in a new door between the Good Room and the kitchen) while I liberated the girls so they could scratch around outside, and planted some gingers and some rainforest trees.
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