STAIRCASE TO THE MOON

July 28, 2010 Wednesday

While we were out on the bread run tonight, we stopped at Rollason’s house. Colleen mentioned she was making curry and asked if we liked it. Of course, we answered in the affirmative, and she invited us to dinner. We told her we had a lesson at 7 pm, so she said to swing by about 6:30 and she’d have a doggy-bag ready for us. We did, and it was sooooo good. She gave us enough for two meals.
Just before we went to pick up the curry, we got a text asking if we could postpone our lesson with the Limas to tomorrow night since they’d had company drop in. What could we say, but “Yes?”
One of the big things pushed for the tourists here is to see “The Staircase to the Moon.” Each month when the full moon rises over Roebuck Bay after dark, the reflection of the moon across the water makes it look like a staircase because of the waves moving across the bay. There’s a nice city park by the beach on Roebuck Bay, so vendors are allowed (for a fee, I’m sure) to set up their wares each day of the staircase. We hadn’t yet seen this, so we took the curry Colleen had dished up for us up to the park. It was full of people shopping and eating. We found a picnic table with just one couple from New South Wales eating there and joined them. We had a great visit with them while we all ate. They were pretty impressed that we had a friend who would make us dinner and send it away with us.
After we’d eaten, we got out the 2 camp chairs that we’d thrown in the trunk earlier and carried them over to a place where we’d have a good view of the bay. Sure enough, just like clockwork, the moon came up at 7:30 and created its staircase. There were a few clouds near the horizon, so it wasn’t a perfect sight, but it was good enough. It was a nice ending to a good day. People were still hanging around the market and park when we left.