Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Newcastle, Australia

Mary and I are apparently over and time change symptoms, except I got tired a bit early last night and went to sleep at 10:00 while Mary stayed up with Pat to look over Pat's John Denver artifacts. We slept in until 8:00 so I got an unheard of (for me) 10 hours of sleep.

We saw the sights of Newcastle yesterday.  This is a major coal town that used to have a huge steel mill.  It's got beautiful beaches (see pictures) and very scenic coastline.  

We had lunch at a famous diner called "Harry's" - there's one here and one in Sydney.  It was a meat pie in a pastry shell covered with mashed peas and potatoes, plus some gravy. - YUM!   They had pictures of many famous people enjoying their Pea Pie from Harry's.  

Tonight Pat and Robert are holding a family BBQ in our honor.  We've already met both daughters and it will be nice to meet the rest of their extended family.  


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