Movie World

 No way!!!

Purrrrrrrrrrr

 Is this George?

Wednesday, 19 September 2012

Monday evening was spent visiting Brian and Jenny – we had a lovely meal and spent many hours catching up on news. Daisy Tomtom was very good about finding their house, but did have a blond moment on the way home and took us into a cemetery!

Tuesday morning meant a flattish tyre (only the bottom bit, fortunately), so after pumping up the tyre, we went looking for the nearest tyre repairer. Luckily, the problem turned out to be a loose valve, so was easily fixed. We joined our daughter-in-law’s parents for lunch at their home and spent a very enjoyable couple of hours before leaving, loaded down with food and presents. The weather wasn’t so kind, being a little cooler (long pants were the order of the day) and a rather heavy shower.

Wednesday morning was lovely and clear after more overnight rain and we left early to travel south for our first ever visit to Movie World on the Gold Coast. Traffic moved well and the trip only took us an hour. We were so glad it was a “quiet” mid-week day and not a busy weekend; with so many children and teenagers there, not to mention thousands of adults, it was hard to believe that only Tasmanian schools are on holiday. Perhaps a lot of schools were having a student free day! We headed straight to the Ice Age 4D show and thoroughly enjoyed being sprayed with dinosaur snot and bounced around in our seats. The show was perhaps a little scary for the very young children in the audience, one littly lasted about 30 seconds before having to be taken outside. Then it was a rush to the stunt cars show – again, great fun. Apart from the three roller coaster rides, these were the only shows. We did spend some time browsing in shops – Cat rather liked the Harry Potter outlet and had to be convinced he could not play quidditch. He also wanted to have a ride on the Superman roller coaster – he definitely had to go by himself! However, I did relent and go on the carousel, just to stop the sulks.

Of course, there were plenty of characters to meet – Les very quickly spotted Cat Woman perched on top of a car! Naturally, I headed for the good looking super heroes, even received a cuddle from Batman himself. Cat wasn’t too keen on the Joker, but certainly was very happy to cuddle up to Cat Woman. Les also learnt that it is not a good idea to get in the way of Wonder Woman when she is chasing some baddies. Marilyn Monroe also appeared to keep the gentlemen happy. We found a nice park bench on the footpath and did some people watching while we waited for the parade at the end of the day. A VIP was led to a special viewing area quite near us; was it George Clooney? He certainly looked familiar.

The journey south only took us an hour – the journey north took us two and a quarter hours! We ended up having to “park” on the Pacific Highway for an hour after a southbound car travelled through two sets of “cheese cutter” barriers and median strip shrubbery, causing a ten car pile up. Not hard to imagine how happy his insurance company will be!!!

It was a very enjoyable day, helped by the lovely warm weather.