Best Western Heritage Motor Bendigo

... foyer and hallway that I painted last week, and it does actually look pretty good, if I say so myself.

It was pretty hot this morning, and we felt exhausted when we finally stopped work about 2:00, but a quick shower and cold drink revived us enough to go into Bendigo for the Central Deborah Gold Mine Tour.

After gold was discovered in Bendigo in 1851 ...

Because Bendigo was a gold rush destination in the 1800's, there was a large influx of Cantonese Chinese Immigrants into the area. They had no civil rights, were allowed to search for gold only where Europeans had already worked the fields and taken the easy pickings, and they were taxed every time they turned around. But they came, they made their livings and sent word home to other Chinese men who eventually turned up in Bendigo. Some of ...

... we have seen in Europe. The feeling was slightly less ornate than most cathedrals we have visited and had beautiful cofffered ceilings. The double pipe organ was being played by a young man during our visit and we enjoyed the thundering hymns he played. The Australian twist was the altar cloth which had embroydered on it the admonishment "STAY AWAKE!"

Another surprise was when we saw the door to the Town Hall open and poked our ...

... all claustrophobic the tunnels were really tall and wide and i had to put on a hard hat hahahaha

and then i went on tram that went all around the town ... and that was my day! But it was loads of fun .. and then we drove back to Melbourne

c xxx

Up with the birds again today, weather is cool and cloudy with sunbreaks.
Painted the walls for a couple of hours, then Paul and I visited Bendigo Pottery. This pottery uses a white clay found a couple of hours drive from Bendgo. We watched a Potter create a quiche pan and poked around the original ...

... gift to Paddy and Leona is to furnish the paint, supplies and labor to paint their entry foyer and central hallway, an area about 200 sq ft with 9 ft walls and beautiful moulding around the high ceilings. so after breakfast we visited the Bunnings center (think Home Depot with an accent) and after getting over the sticker shock, I purchased brushes, rollers, paint and all the necessary tools for completing the job. (Paint, by the way ...

... why there are not more Australian ventriloquists.  Unfortunately, I am only one woman and I think that with all my might I won't be able to get a whole nation speaking correctly, so instead I'm going to embrace my Strayan-ness. I'm gunna choose a fooddy team tonoit, then I'm gunna ged a scarf in their colours, then I'm gunna go to the fooddy (in the roin if I have ta) an shoud oud "CARN THE BLUES" whadda youse gunna do?

... daar zag ik ze wel weer: Dingo's! Een van de honden hier is opgevoed in het park door zijn verzorger en is mensen gewend. Desondanks zit hij in een omheind gebied, hij is en blijft een wilde hond, maar hij schuwde onze aandacht in ieder geval niet. Na een ijsje en wat napraten in de speeltuin gingen we weer terug. Op zondagmiddag ging de familie erop uit voor een lunch en had ik het huis voor mezelf. Ik moest de ramen aan de buitenkant zemen en dacht: "Ach, er is toch niemand in de ...

... weeds and taking down/building fences. You know when you're driving down the road and see a whole bunch of government workers and think "Are they even working?" That's us! Haha it's a very laid back environment and we probably spend more time chatting and eating than we do working. For example, today I don't think I worked for more than half an hour. A park official paid for all our morning tea (morning snack that doesn't actually need to involve tea), we put some ...

... ist trendig, international, sehr asiatisch und pulsierend. Schon'n nettes Fleckchen. Nur viel zu kalt. Friere mir gerade den Hintern ab. Alles in Allem ist die Stadt nett, haut mich aber nicht vom Hocker. Werde wohl nochmal wiederkommen und der Stadt eine zweite Chance geben muessen- diesmal mit Auto. Das Umland muss genial sein. Sollte vielleicht auch nicht nochmal in der Innenstadt wohnen.