AN ELEPHANT ON THE ROAD.

Today we set off for Toowoomba and I thought we would listen to a little light music on  one of the many tape cassettes I have accumulated in the rig. Unfortunately my cassette player would not work...( I had spent several hours waiting for it to be fixed last week on the Coast ). 

  NOT HAPPY JO!

Skin was so sick of me trying to put one cassette in after the other that he made a little ear muff set (to ward off the repetitious sound )and sat in his car seat sulking.

As we grumpily rolled along the Highway  I saw a sign saying,"LENNONS CIRCUS".

Just as I was about to tell Skin the exciting news, a HUGE elephant appeared on the side of the road.

Maybe it had escaped from the circus.

It was a strange pinkish colour, so maybe someone had painted it so that it would be disguised.

Skin insisted on hanging from it's tail while carrying his new tote bag.

What a great time he had!

Suddenly I saw a sign on the shop behind the elephant and realized that this elephant was called Jumbo and belonged to a fruit market.

We went inside and bought some delicious mangoes and oranges. Skin made friends with some of his distant relations.

We were feeling a little weary so we sat down and had a hot cup of tea and tasted some of Helen's moist banana cake that we had taken from her fridge!

We arrived at Toowoomba in the early afternoon and continued on our way to a tiny place called Oakey. I had to prepare us both for an exciting  two days at St Monicas School.

We were back to caravan life again, a little bit like all those entertainers in Lennons Circus.

Skin decided to use his tote bag as a sleeping bag and was asleep

( with his hat and glasses still on ) by 6 o'clock.

                       

Would he dream of Jumbo or Helen's moist banana cake?