Parkes - Day 3 - Elvis Lives - hey that's an anagram?

Sorry have had problems with pics uploads...

Got a great sleep in this morning. Slept in the Church carpark and got a great nights’ sleep. Walked into town and we can see more and more people turning up in anticipation. We finally made it to Elvis Central, the main shop for the event. They had already started selling out of some items, and they even stocked Elvis Monopoly $90, Elvis Tshirts from America $58, Elvis wigs $35 and Elvis gold or silver glasses $12. Postcards were $2 and all selling like hotcakes. The local RSL is doing a Hunka Hunka Breakfast, and burgers seem to be the staple around town.

The next activity involved Steve and Wayne having a Dare by Dare (ice coffee company) to drink the ice coffee the fastest. Wayne positioned himself best, allowing for all to be spilt down his front, Steve was more interested in chugging it down fast and ended up wearing lots of it out of his nose (dont know how you do that?) and then dribbling it down his front...

sad what people will go through, to get a free drink! They did however entertain the closest 50 or so people hanging around the park.

By lunch time, most street corners had an Elvis or two performing live. There were even two cute kids doing their renditions of the classics – with a huge crowd (didn’t have the camera at the time).

Wayne & Sharon had to leave as Sharon was working on the weekend, so I got some chores done.

The road is now blocked off and we have scored a shady park under a tree in a now blocked off road. Not sure how long we’ll manage to keep that!

The Elvis train was due to arrive at 3:30pm, so Steve got some great shots of the hoards on the platforms to greet them...

Then the judging was commencing around 4pm behind closed doors but we caught them with some of the photographers waiting for their roll call.

Enjoyed a great night out listening and watching some great karaoke Elvis’ at the pub, we were disappointed to have it ruined by bad service with our food. We went home without dinner.