Bloggers' Lunch

I was a little apprehensive about meeting Peter and Warren for the first time...understandable I guess. Let's face it...anyone can say anything and be anyone in Blogworld. However, I needn't have worried. Two nicer guys you couldn't meet. But I'll start at the beginning...

You will recall in my last post I mentioned having a red rose between my teeth and doing a flamenco for identification purposes. Well, I bought the rose (and what trouble I had finding one red silk rose!) with the intention of crossing the road to the coffee shop with it between my teeth. It had a very long stem, so this morning I hacked at it with the scissors to cut it down to a more manageable length...after all I didn't want to be responsible for poking someone's eye out...that wouldn't be a very auspicious start.

I grabbed my bag, keys, etc, drove out onto the road, tootling nicely along the Logan Motorway...with the rose still where I had left it after trimming the stem...back at home. Oh dear...

I had suggested the coffee shop across from the main entrance of Toowong Village...it would have been roughly the middle for me and Warren and Peter. I parked in the shopping village carpark, noting as I drove in that there was a four hour limit on parking...you've got to be joking. Oh well, I'll worry about that later. Walked through the shops to the main entrance...and I could see these two characters sitting at a table at the cafe across the road. Had to be Peter and Warren so, while I was waiting at the lights, I waved. Ahah! An answering wave...I was right.

What a great pair of guys...I had a lovely afternoon and we certainly didn't run out of things to talk about. There was a lot of witty repartee...between Warren and Peter, as well as the three of us, which made for lots of laughter as well. I got a couple of photos, unfortunately the sun was a bit of a handicap as was the fact that I didn't have my glasses on when I took these...ignore the woman in the background...who invited her?

Actually, even though I didn't have my glasses on, the photos aren't too bad. We wanted one of the three of us so I suggested asking one of the staff to take it. Warren went inside to do that, but came out and said there's only one staff member visible...nothing loath, he collared a young lady who was innocently waiting for coffee and she took a photo of the three of us on Peter's camera. He's very kindly emailed me a copy, but I'll wait for him to put it on his post...if he's going to post about our meeting...lol.

Thank you, Peter and Warren, for a lovely lunch and an entertaining few hours...it was lovely to meet you and let's do it again sometime.

Oops...Peter, what did you say to upset Warren? (Told you I'd got that, Warren...heheh!)