Wanderings around Freo

Okay, after spending an hour at Officeworks yesterday morning, I decided to head down to Fremantle of the afternoon with Mum. While we were down there, we popped into this one bookstore on the cafe strip. While browsing round, I spotted some notepads and diaries with Emily the Strange on them. She seems like a fun character.

We didn't actually do much beyond wandering round the Fremantle markets. Mum bought a matching pair of crystal knife-rests from an antique stall, and I managed to come home empty-handed. The only dragon I saw which I found vaguely interesting was a dragon kite for about $70. My kite-flying skills are sorely lacking, as is room to store such a kite, so there's one dragon who didn't join my collection.

Mum mentioned that we should go to Fremantle on a more regular basis. And plan to go earlier, so that we can go for lunch and check out our old favourite - the Fremantle Arts Centre. And I'd love to go there just to check out some of those "cold spots". Brief history of the centre - back when it was first built it was originally the Women's Asylum. Supposedly it's one of the most haunted buildings in Fremantle, with lots of cold spots, ghostly figures sighted, and people getting attacked by unseen asailants. The good thing is that there's a ghost walk that goes through the building on Monday nights. It'll have to be something on our "To Do List" for when we have the foreign invasion. No orbs, but we do get a tour guide carrying a hurricane lantern!
My Dad has even had an experience at this place. He went there with my Mum one time, and they went upstairs to one of the exhibitions. Mum had gone on ahead, and as Dad was going up the stairs, a man in a suit, carrying a black doctors' bag pushed past him and said "Excuse me." The flight of stairs they were going up ended in a single room, with only the one way in or out (apart from windows). Dad walked into the room, couldn't see the guy who passed him on the stairs, did see Mum, and asked if she'd seen him. To which she said that she hadn't. *cue eerie music*

I would also love to do this at some stage.

My neice has ended up with the flu, so my sister decided to call off going to the movies this afternoon. She said she'd leave it until next week (by which time, she, her hubby and son will probably have come down with the lurgy).