Another quiet day, we went
for a walk into town just to see what was available locally. Walking past the
food cooking stalls, the food does not really smell very enticing and the
cooking facilities are not really great. The locals are very friendly, though,
and always smile and say hello. It reminds me of New Guinea, especially when a
lady said "appernoon" just like they do in New Guinea. We wandered
along and found a new shop called "Bocconcino" an Italian restaurant
and deli, of course. It was fantastic, great coffee and we decided to buy
cheeses and meats and bread and olives for an antipasto dinner before going to
Fantasea. In "Bocconcino" there was a couple who had either been
drinking alcohol all night or just started very early in the morning, but the
girl was well over the limit and fell off her chair a couple of times. Not a
pretty sight early in the morning. While Lee and I did the shopping with Nick
supervising, the guy that was with the girl left, so she moved over to talk to
Gerard and Michael, you have never seen two grown men suddenly vacate a table
so quickly and run for security in numbers with us. It was really funny. As we
checked out with all our goodies, the girl had about four goes at getting it
right. I have to say the young man that served us had the most beautiful
Italian accent, I just wanted him to keep talking.
We spent the afternoon by the
pool and had afternoon tea. Have I told you how good the banana fritters are?
We had our antipasto for dinner and about 6.30 headed in to "Fantasea."
it's really hard to describe it, it's like a carnival with side shows and
stalls, elephant rides, tiger viewing etc. then you go into a very large
theatre and watch the stage show. The show goes for a couple of hours and
includes, a laser show, acrobatics, magic and animals. At one stage there were
16 elephants on stage, they had goats and even some chickens ran across the
stage, kind of like the RSPCA ad but with the last two chickens having a bit of
a disagreement. There was lots of singing and dancing and it was a really well
done event. I suppose its kind of like Sea World with a stage show added.
Certainly worth going to.
We got home late and had a
good sleep.
