Holiday weekend recap #4

Monday, the last morning. Gg purchased the morning papers again but there wasn't too much reading time. We tidied up the apartment which took quite a while and packed our things, placing the bags in the cars.

We decided that breakfast should be at Northcliff SLSC. The walk to the club was leisurely. It was the Labour Day public holiday in Queensland so the holiday mood still surrounded us.

After signing into the club we were allocated a table by the window overlooking the beach which was active with early bathers and sunseekers (see below). The morning sun was strong so we soon relocated ourselves to another table.


The club's breakfast menu was extensive and pleasingly inexpensive too boot. Mt and Ll ordered the 'healthy' breakfast but the rest of us stuck to the weekend's theme of eating heartily and 'bugger' the diet.

Ll disappeared into the poker (slot) machine room after a while and within minutes had won two jackpots and was hundreds of dollars to the better. How lucky is that?

It was time for me to get to the airport. Mt and I said our goodbyes to the others who were going to remain at the club a while longer and we walked back to the apartment to Mt's car.

Just as well we left when we did because we struck a traffic jam on the way to the airport and Mt dropped me off there just 5 minutes before checkin time for my flight was to close. Mt continued off home to Ballina.

It was at checkin that I was told about the flight cancellations that I reported earlier. Instead of returning home at about 2pm as I was expecting, it was to be 6.45pm when I finally opened the door to my apartment.

Despite the irritation of the delayed return home, the weekend was a relaxing, fun time. And we are booked to do it again this time on the Sunshine Coast in July.