Bonnie Bee O’Brien
Miss Chu (Darlinghurst?East Sydney?) is great. I missed out on eating there the previous day with the other Perthonites, but it is my first stop the next day. Shredded duck pancake and steamed pork bun for breakfast.
Next stop is Gordon’s Bay. I had a perfect time there on tour and was keen to re-live it. After walking from Coogee and doing an questionnaire on bottled water (thanks bloke, from Uni of Sydney), I arrived at the site. It wasn’t crowded like last time. In fact, there are no young people here at all. There are about 4 people and one of them is an elder, fat, browner-than-you nudist. I walk a little further up, but still cop the dirty old man bending over in my peripherals. yuck. oh well, at least the water is nice. I head back to town with a slight detour at circular quay. Chong is picking me up at 5pm to visit Amanda, Bonnie and Conor at the hospital: his beard is as fierce as I remember.
We pick up his wife Ash along the way. She is great, full of beans and ecstatic about the baby. “I will allow you twenty seconds, Pat. Otherwise I will push you out of the way to get in there.” They both offer me advice about Japan and tell me of a wonderful whiskey at Narita duty free, which is contained in a ceramic, tiger-shaped bottle.
Bonnie is the cutest baby I have ever seen. She has a little bit of orange hair and is really long in length for a baby of her size. She has big grabby hands and is loud! Conor and Amanda have their work cut out for them.
I was really touched to be able to hold Bonnie and see her in her infancy. I didn’t think that I would even see her for at least six or eight months. Conor and Amanda are beaming with positive energy and I have never seen either of them so happy or proud. It feels great to know that I am part of a beautiful family.
