Well, I am sitting here in the hotel room at Young Federal Motor Inn, alone, trying to grasp what had happened in the past 12 hours. My two chatty colleagues living next door are still yakking. It was 1 o’clock in the early morning. I am leaving the TV on the movie channel but didn’t really pay attention.

We just got back from Young Service Club about 1 hour ago, where I saw the biggest serve of food in one plate in my life. I just couldn’t believe it. What I ordered was a 17 bucks mix grill, but what had been given to me was a big piece of pork lion, a big piece of lamb chop, a big piece of beef steak, a sausage, a super big piece of bacon, and on the top of it, was an poached egg. Not done yet…in that plate, there were also heaps of hot chips and a vegetable salad with capsicum, tomato, onion and little curly cubic pasta. Oh my God, how could they do this to me? I wish I was a truck driver or someone who had a big stomach or something, then I would have been able to finish the whole plate just not to waste the food. But I am not. Even though I have good habit to finish whatsoever my food is when I eat outside, I still couldn’t see the possibility to deal with this one. I did try.

Before that, was a great slow walk along the main street of Young, a historic town (according to written materials I found in hotel room) that I had never been but heard a lot. I was so amazed to find a lots of nice little clothes and jewellery shops in this town. Some of them really have some sort of personalities and good stuff. At the end of the street, it was Big W that we don’t even have it in Queanbeyan, also I saw a cinema, neither has Queanbeyan got one like that. Also, I was impressed with a shop called Wool Room, and the shoe warehouse owner’s chat. That was where I realised that I AM really in a country town.

The day has been just so great. The work, which brought us to here initially, seems not that important at all after we finished our presentation at 3pm. I enjoyed the weather so much and all I can see and feel was sunshine, a peaceful tidy town with moderate traffic and really nice houses with flowering pansies, blooming trees and potentially harvesting cherry farms?

Even the purple weeds we found in most of properties looked so beautiful though they make you sneeze, make you cry and kill horses. They are like a big ocean of purple, adorable!!! Donna was standing on her porch deck with her little dog barking and jumping around, trying to follow her to get in our car for a night out. In front of that was 2 acres of tall grass, golden canola flowers and those purple things. We almost drove in among those.

I found cheery jam and cherry sauce on the table of my hotel room, very tempting. I must organise something to allow me come back in late November or early December to see the real things, pick my own and have a big meal at that club again And I want to stay in this motel if decided to stay a night. Here is so lovely, love the Lemongrass, Eucalyptus aromatherapy shower gel and body lotion, love the begonia just outside the door in the porch. They are gorgeous (see the photo above).

But the biggest winner is the poking toy machine located in the Club where we spent the night with some local service providers. This machines is a magic rewarding toy glasshouse. You will never loose. If you throw in 2 bucks, you can try as many times as you like until that big steel claw gets a toy out.

After a glass of Chardonnay I started to feel a bit of spinning. I don’t think my colleagues were really drunk but they were addicted to play with this fishing toy game. One of girls won about 170 bucks on another poker machine and she then fed this toy machine with at least 50 dollars. Can you believe that at the end of the day, I brought 9 soft toys home? They started to talk about getting a machine in our office so we never get bored while working.

I shall return, for the cherries, for toys, for big meal in that bistro and for all the good time that all could possibly happen in Young:-)