Today is the day I celebrate the day I said "I do" to a wonderful girl named Heidi. Over the 16 years of our amazing marriage we have achieved so much together. I certain would not be the manager of our local library if I did not have this incredible woman in my life. We also would not have a house full of three beautiful, special kids and a menagerie of animals (four cats now and a rabbit) if this Cancer had met such a fiery Scorpio and fallen so deeply in love. To celebrate our magical romance my darling girl found a delicious looking seafood platter for two in Meningie, South Australia. So after dropping the kids off to school (1 and 2 then 3) and giving our new kitten a bath it was time to venture off as a couple an hour down the country road and on to the quaint little township of Meningie on Lake Albert.
We arrived in Meningie with our minds a whirl, full of fun memories from the family weekend we had taken in this town. We headed straight for our destination, the Cheese Factory Museum and Restaurant only to find upon arrival at 11:30am that the doors to the restaurant were shut and locked tight. A sign on the door suggested lunch was available from 12noon so we quickly nipped back into town to do the Pelican Walk and reminisce some more. Returning to the Cheese Factory by the suggested lunch time we discovered an elderly couple seeking the same thing we were but no open doors. Upon giving the phone number on the door I discovered that the lunch staff were all down with the flu and sadly there would be no seafood platter for two for anyone that day. The (much) older couple suggested we try the Meningie Hotel instead with plans to return on a later date in search of ocean yumminess. Great advice taken up we discovered a delightful steak and Guinness pie for one and a fair serve of fish and chips for my wife. Deliciousness and satisfaction almost covered the disappointment we had for a great plan ruined.
Upon leaving Meningie with tummies full we passed a deal of a life time and pulled over for a bag of fresh caught Coorong Mullet (best fish ever in my experience). That should make for an awesome tea tomorrow... Can't wait...
Home again home again only to discover another scritchy scratchy feline. Into the sink with Max, followed by Ginger and finally (for the sake of consistency) Fred... All clean and looking like drowned rats. Certainly not happy cats but a lot less scratching.
All in all a lovely day out with the love of my life and even more memories to carry on to our seventeenth.
Now it is full steam ahead toward my big 4 and Oh... King for a day and fool for a life time...
Huzzah!!!
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