A Meet-Up With Like-Minded People In Brisbane City

Yesterday, being a Sunday, I normally clean the house or read the paper for a good part of the day and stuff around with a few books. But not yesterday. No, I went out into the city yesterday and met up with two other Bookcrossers who had travelled for some hours to meet me here in Brisbane. All I had to do was catch two buses and that was it; they had driven for three or four hours.
We met up outside the Treasury Casino; and they recognised me very easily as I wore a Bookcrossing t-shirt; and I said that my long red hair would be a dead giveaway! Anyway, after hugs and introductions -and exchanges of our RL names - we escorted the husband of one of the ladies into the Casino where he could while away his time playing Keno and the Pokies.
Meanwhile, I took the ladies out to the Pancake Manor on Charlotte Street for something to eat and coffee. They loved the place! Being from Tasmania, they love their old buildings; and thought the place gorgeous, the food was brilliant and we had plenty of laughs. Being Bookcrossers, we swapped books with each other; and I ended up coming home with more books than I went there with! Then, being readers and collectors and lovers of books, I thought a bookstore would be a good place to visit. And what other bookstore but 'Archives' right next door? Well, they had never been in such a big bookstore! Both of them agreed that they must come back and visit this one again for a proper look as it was just too big to have a good look and purchase. They were thrilled to know there was such a prominent store like this one in the center of Brisbane; which hadn't moved anywhere and was so well-stocked! I said it was one of my usual haunts when I came into the city.

Well, time marched on too quickly and we all had to go. I had two buses to catch to get home before the buses at Garden City stopped at 5pm. And Glenys and June had to beat the traffic on the freeway to Noosa before the same time. So, we said out goodbyes outside the Treasury - where we had met up - and we parted ways.