Broome day 3

33 degrees and just perfect weather.
After my slightly stressful morning sorting the afternoon tour for half the group (please refer to the end of yesterday’s ramblings) I had a very pleasant morning with a few of the ladies as we caught the local bus into town. It was only two stops and probably about a 20 minute walk, but for $2 (I'm so excited as I got to use my Seniors Card!)I figured I didn’t need to be walking in the hot sun if I didn’t need to. I headed off on my own and enjoyed mooching in and out shops looking for nothing in particular. I headed in to Coles to get myself something for my lunch and as I headed down an aisle a fellow came up to me to say hello. I had no idea who it was, but it turns out he and his wife who was standing nearby, were on our coach tour yesterday! They were on their way to Horizontal Falls, but just stocking up on some supplies. He wanted to tell me that he thought Police Legacy was a great idea and that I was doing a great job with my group so I felt a bit guilty about threatening to slap one of them only a couple of hours earlier! LOL. So that was really nice of him anyway as they really could have gone straight past me in the store and I would have been one the wiser. Later, at one stage I saw a couple of the kittens sitting outside a shop waiting for one of the others so got the three of them together to take them to a nearby cafe where I offered to buy them a drink. My big, slow, loud kitten initially wanted a milkshake, then a smoothie and then wanted a ginger beer like the other two, then back to a milkshake at which point I told her to stop talking until the waitress came to take the order and then she had to finally make up her mind. One would have thought I was asking her the hardest question on the planet instead of what she would like to drink. When it was time to give her order, I had to smile as she picked the most expensive milk shake on the list! Bless her.
While we were sitting at our outside table, one of the other kittens walked past so I invited her to join us so I was able to buy her a drink too. Drinks consumed, and time to go our separate ways. After I’d done all the window shopping I intended to do, I went to the bus stop to find a couple of my kittens already there and then 3 more rock up. As his, slow and loud waddled into the bus stop, another lady who had been sitting at the bus stop, called out her name to which my kitten said, yes, that’s my name but who are you and how do you know me? You could have knocked me over with a feather when the lady said, Police Legacy! She’s a police widow but has a new partner. I’d never met her before, but did so then. Fancy going all the way to Broome to meet someone purely by chance, in a bus shelter... Small, small world.
But then the bus came, we all boarded and 2 stops later our group were dropped at our stop. I headed back to my room, had a bit of lunch and then decided to head to the pool. I was the only one in the pool and enjoyed splashing about on my own. I finally decided that it was time to get out, so went back to my room, showered and went to see if one of the other kittens, who I know loves a beer, wanted to come with me to the little Irish pub next door to our hotel. Well, you don’t have to ask her twice, so that’s where we headed. A couple of kittens were already there, as they had gone there for lunch and stayed on! It was lovely just to sit and chat with the. Just as they then decided to leave, 2 of the 7 who had done the afternoon tour came into the pub to say hi so it was like we were keeping the seats occupied in shifts. However we decided we had better head back to our rooms to get ready for dinner, which we did. Dinner was uneventful and I had my list of who ordered what meal with me, to make sure we didn’t have the same fiasco as last night. The afternoon tour group all said they had a good time and those that had a totally free day enjoyed doing not much if anything.

As I was telling them the plans for tomorrow, one kitten started telling me that in the travel itinerary documents it said such and such, which was at odds with the timings I had just given them. What I desperately wanted to say to them was that they could follow the timings on the paperwork if they wanted, and totally ignore what I had just said, and let’s see who turns out to be in the right place at the right time for tomorrow’s tours, but instead I simply told them that they have to ignore what’s in their documents and do exactly what I say as I’m the boss of them and what I say goes! I’m pleased to say that they all took my answer as totally acceptable and I only wish I’d said something similar from day one! Now we just wait to see how many times I have to repeat the details at breakfast tomorrow and how many try and tell me that it says something different in their paperwork... sigh...
After dinner it was my pleasure to return to my room at a very reasonable hour, catch up on the blog, have a medicinal night cap and lights out.
Our little holiday getaway is coming to a close. I think the kittens have generally enjoyed the trip. There have certainly been lots of laughs and I seem to be the only one wanting to tear my hair out on occasion, so hopefully as far as the kittens are concerned, it has all gone smoothly and they’ve gotten all they expected from the trip. Time will tell.