Sunday AM left Oxley & drove to Warwick. At Warwick I dropped into Lewis's house. Morgan, who has a automatic "P" license hopped into my car to get some experience in a manual. To keep this all legal, he has a manual learners and so L plates were suitably displayed. Lewis, Clare and Peter had to drop the dog (Roberta) off at a pet motel and so off we all went.
The marvels of modern technology meant that we were able to meet up in Tenterfield. As Morgan and I arrived a few minutes early, we entertained ourseves with some hill starts.
We had a nice coffee and hot apple pie at a cafe / antique shop where I did not buy anything.
Lewis then took over from Morgan and drove the next keg. Maye a manual has novilty value.
Lunched at a pub in Glen Innis. Two fire places and a Ceasar salad.
Arrived Armidale around 3:30pm. James VS snr came over and we had a cup of tea. This necessitated approaching the motel management and signing for two more cups.
James and I then decamped and drove to our motel that was five minutes down the road in the down town area.
Sunday dinner as across the road from our motel at the pub.
We met James jnr & his girl frined Sally and Joselyn (how is it speldt?) and her partner Michael.
Nicely cooked T bone washed down with a rum and coke and followed by sticky date pudding although some of our party ordered a lava cake and so I figure next time I am in Armidale I need to try that.
James and I could walk "home" to our motel.
Sunday morning and James and I walked into the downtown area and found a cafe for breakfast. Decided to do some sight seeing and not having been successful in negotiating a late check out, we duely checked out early and drove to the tourist info centre.
Then drove and walked to Womolomomom falls
The funeral was at St ??? Church. This is a quaint, tiny, rural church. As we stood outside I observed the mains power cable entering the building. As it turned out, the presence of electriciy has resulted in a general lowering of standards as it meant that the service was lit by fluros. After the service, we were advised that the kero lantern chanderliers will be lit for the 150th aniversery service. The music department however have not allowed the presence of that new fagled electricity thing to compromise the quality of music and we were able to sing to the melodious tunes of a pedal pipe organ. I volunteered Megan to come as a visiting musician next time we are in town.
The service was a wonderful celebration of Bob's life. Alison read a beautiful Eulogy.
Then it was all over and Morgan and I are heading home.
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