HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

Today I set off with Skin early in the morning to find the best cup of coffee possible to celebrate Mothers Day.

We wandered past exclusive homes in Noosa River and Skin became quite excited and wanted to purchase one.

I told him that we needed to save our money for the coffee so he reluctantly gave up enquiring about the Real Estate market.

He soon cheered up when he met another one of his heroes, immortalized in fibreglass forever. It was non other than...ELVIS!!!!!!

What a treat for a banana....to be held by THE KING HIMSELF!

       ALL SKIN COULD SAY WAS............

We had to find an ATM before we could have our coffee. Skin was fascinated to see how you can walk up to a machine and put in a card and have money drop out within seconds.

He started to mention the Property Market again, so I moved him quickly onwards.

Then, we found a floating boathouse. This MUST be the place for an excellent coffee.

Skin sat down on a chair on the deck and looked out over the river.

The waitress brought us our coffees AND.......

THEY WERE THE WORST COFFEES WE HAD EVER, EVER HAD THE MISFORTUNE TO DRINK!

Skin had one mouthful and was sick over the side of the boat.

Our mouths felt like the insides of out of date milk cartons as we trudged back along the river to the caravan park. We should have been suspicious when we saw that there was nobody else on the  floating Boathouse drinking coffee, (especially as it was Mothers Day!)

Skin cheered up a little when he spied a bright yellow hire boat.

It is, as you all know, his favourite colour.

But we both felt too sick to even contemplate going out on the water.

When we arrived back at the park we saw a lonely looking woman sitting on her own with some cheery balloons on a table. She had been sitting there for several hours.

Maybe her family had forgotten to come.

So, it is always important to remember,

in the words of my grandmother,

          'some days are like diamonds and some are like stones'.