Friday evening was going to be my first taste of Kalgoorlie night life, but.......... like everything else I seem to do at present it didn't quite go to plan.
A new acquaintance of mine, who does not like to go out herself, arranged for a friend of hers to go with me. All I had to do was get the tickets to the musical.
So armed with the promise of seeing Kalgoorlie by night ....I began, the what seemed easy task, of obtaining tickets.
At about 12.30 Friday afternoon I phoned the booking office, (supposedly open between 10:00 and 3:00).
Straight to message bank. "Leave your name and No. etc. ........ will phone back."
Well true to their word they did phone back. 2.58 pm just as I was dismissing my excited Year Ones. Strangely enough I missed the call......... I phoned back a few minutes too late, the box office had closed.
Undeterred I cleared up, then drove to the small repertory theatre to see if I could get some more information......perhaps we could purchase tickets at the door.
No luck., totally closed up.
I sent a text to the person I was going with briefly explaining the problem. No response.
After ten or so minutes I phoned, still no reply. Hm this was not boding well for the evening.
And so it turned out.........by the time we did get in touch with each other, our enthusiasm for the outing had burnt itself out.
I stayed home and in true teacher style, was fast asleep on the lounge before 9.00.
Saturday, well I did actually go out for the evening.
It wasn't quite what I had imagined as my first foray into the bright lights, being a clothes party held at a friend of a friend's house.
Having said that, it was all very pleasant. I met some delightful people and ate a piece of chocolate pie that was scrumptious.
The following video is a taste of Kalgoorlie's sister city, Boulder.
Before you view it.....here are a couple of comments that locals made to me when I'd mentioned I was going to the Boulder Markets this Sunday:
"Well that should take you at most half an hour."
"It's crap."
"Allow 5 minutes."
Therefore I had been warned.........so have you.
The quality of the film is not too good, but I am taking the shots with an old digital camera. Yep, I know a poor workman blames his tools......what can I say.....
The history of Boulder is very closely tied up with that of Kalgoorlie. According to the curator of the Kalgoorlie Museum, while Kalgoorlie was primarily built for the upper echelon during the heady gold rush days. Boulder became home to the hundreds of blue collar workers brought in to work in the thriving mines and to provide the other necessary services. The difference in the two towns is quite noticeable and current real estate prices still reflect the imbalance.
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