A crown, golden in show….

Went to Toowoomba today to go fight for Crown.  The drive was great – I got to hang with 

 and chat and carry on.  The drive was not too bad – no traffic to speak of and we made good time up the hill.  We checked into the hotel, which was okay I guess.  The event was out at Carbarlah, which I knew I had driven past before, but stuffed if I could remember how to get there.

But never fear!  We had Sir_Phil’s uber fantastic GPS navigator in the car that had gotten us all the way to Toowoomba without incident, and even punctuated the journey in a saucy French voice that never even recriminated with me for deliberately taking an alternate route to the one she was suggesting.  One small glitch….  Susette (oh come on – she was pretty helpful, she deserves a name) didn’t know where Carbarlah was!  Nope – just not in the registry.  Curse you Susette!  And curse Mr K for taking the Refidex (that’s the street directory to anyone who doesn’t live in Qld) out of the car before we left!!!  So we drove out to Carbarlah figuring we’d gone too far.  Until I decided to call Mr K to get some bearings from Google Maps.  He very helpfully looked it up for me and just as I rounded a bend that said ‘Welcome to Carbarlah’ he said ‘Nah, you haven’t quite gone far enough out!’  🙂   So GPS rocks… sometimes.

The event was fun… too many flies and a little too hot.  But loads of fun.  Congrats to Sir Berengar of Nancy – It’s gonna be a hot time in the old crown this reign!
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