The MnM Story

We two, Mercedes and McAuley, have decided to make a Progress around Queensland, to celebrate 100 years of friendship since we were All Hallows Girls. (50 years for each of the Ms).
The idea came upon as at the 50 year reunion at the Alma Mater in October 2017, when we talked with many of our boarding days friends, and decided to drive about in Queensland to visit whomsoever we could. 

Today is Day 1.  (Well, Day 2 for one of us, who drove from Brisbane yesterday, but we won't count that) 

We left Bundaberg at 9am.  By the time we had sung Angeli , (lustily), and I'm an All Hallows Girl (sweetly), and recited fifteen decades of the rosary dedicating every one of them to Sr M Ronan, we were at Miriam Vale and very much in need of coffee.  There is a v good coffee place there opposite the playground, which is itself looking its very best, having been smicked up for the Commonwealth Games baton passing through next weekend. 

We progressed on towards Rockhampton. Before we had quite got there, Mercedes spotted a lagoon along which she used to walk in another life when she worked in Rockhampton.  We picnicked by the lagoon.  It was hot and dusty.  But the pull of reminiscence is strong. Pic below shows McAuley picnicking.  Mercedes would not be photographed. (THAT will have to change).

A drive around Rockhampton.  No comment.  Then on to Yeppoon, where we are on the eighth floor of a nice place with a view to next week.  This is a glorious place, the ocean dotted with islands just a way away.  But, and this is quite a but for Queensland, brown sand.  Not our usual gold.  I don't know why.