"Driving Miss Daisy"

Saturday 27th April saw Meg, Kath and myself driving to
Melbourne.

It was a big surprise and was Meg's Mother's Day present
and my birthday present combined, as she paid everything
for me.

We went to one of the shopping centers as Meg wanted to
return a jumper she bought that had a snag on it.

She drove around for nearly ten minutes before we got a
spot. It was in the spaces set aside for Kmart customers.

As it turned out the shop did not have any others so she
kept the one she had after all, and the time we wasted there
meant that we did not get to go to the Melbourne Hotel for
high tea.

As we drove through town we passed two theaters, one had
the Russian ballet, the other had "Driving Miss Daisy."

I did not want to go to either of those shows but if given
the choice I hoped it was the second rather than the first.

We found a park just around the corner from the theatre and
we went for lunch. we tried four places before we could find
a place that could fit us in. Both Meg and Kath's meal came
and they had finished eating before mine arrived.

But we got to the theatre with ten minutes to spare.

I did enjoy the show, Angela Lansbury was in the main role and
she was amazing.

At the end of the show I asked one of the ushers could he go
back stage and get the cast's autograph for me. He came back
and said that there was a side door and the actors left by that.

So we went around to the side and we waited for about 15 minutes.
An usher came out and looked at the 10 people standing there and
went back inside. There was only four groups there waiting.

He came back out and said that Angela had left and the other
actors did not leave between shows. everyone left. I said that
he was lying as the first people were there as soon as the show
finished.

It was very disappointing. That close to have her in Melbourne
and we travelled 180 kms and couldn't get her autograph.

After the show we went for a walk and found a chocolate shop that
the girls thought was great. They bought some. But just around
the corner was a cake shop and the front window was wonderful,
there was a line of about twenty people waiting to eat in. But
we just bough some cake, each piece was $9 which was about twice
what it should have been.

When we cam out we saw a