Bumming around in Broome

Saturday 24^th May 2008

We were even slower starting today – it is nice not having any agenda but it also seems slightly wasteful – never mind, I’m sure we’ll get back into it soon enough.

We went to a place called Zanders for a late breakfast – it sits up above Cable Beach and was a very pleasant place to sit and while away the time. After filling ourselves Paul and I let the girls get some exercise in the playground (we didn’t feel the need to be energetic ourselves!) and then decided it was hot enough to go in the pool at the caravan park.

The Stanleys were already there so we spent a pleasant couple of hours before repairing to our respective homes for a bite to eat. I went to the shops to try and get weekend newspapers while Paul and the girls went back to the pool – it’s a hard life, sometimes! The Weekend Australian doesn’t get in til 4pm so I took Holly to the local mini-mart which also has internet and she spent her carefully saved $3 on a half hour session of Club Penguin on the internet which she has been waiting to do for about five days.

To ensure that we really didn’t do much today, Richard and Lynsey invited us for dinner at their place. The girls had bangers and mash then read stories in the kids’ annexe (well, the beach tent which was set up under the bushes) before settling down to a dvd. The adults had a delicious curry, several wines and some scintillating conversation – in my opinion, anyway! Paul’s talk kept coming back to soccer and Bristol City – he’d phoned his family and Duncan earlier to help build up his excitement about the game and eventually he and Richard strode down the road to the Divers Tavern where they’d arranged that one tv would be set up for them to watch Bristol City v Hull City in their play-off for promotion to the Premier Division.

The rest of us sank gratefully into our beds – the kids were shattered from all the swimming and I was just shattered from being awake today! Paul stumbled back in some hours later and was decidedly grumpy because the City hadn’t made it, but it didn’t keep him awake for long...