Parkes – Day 4

Got a late start to the morning and arrived in town to catch the tail end of the parade through town. Still ended up killing the battery on the camera with all the video clips and pics taken. It was really fun, only problem is they let them spread out too much and it caused a few problems at our end of the course. Here is just a glimpse of what we saw...

Some of the Brides of Elvis - really funny all in white wedding dresses complete with veils and thongs!

Sign reads: Elvis flying in from Vegas

Rocky, Habib (from Fat Pizza) and Elvis

We then ventured up to town and found a café and qued up for a table. We started eating when this huge storm came up and rained on the whole town.

We then returned to our van and did several laps around town to try and get a park by the park. We parked temporarily while waiting for someone to leave and jumped in a great spot under a tree. Enjoying the final few rounds of the Elvis singoff competition, we stayed and saw the winners of all categories. It was really interesting. There is some really good talent here in Parkes. Also bumped into the two lead characters from Fat Pizza, Rocky & Habib. They were really interesting, down to earth, and happy to chat. They said we should go to the Mark Andrew show at the Leagues Club as he’s the best Elvis impersonator in Australia. So we chatted and he said he was a huge Elvis fan and was here on holiday, but they should have asked him to MC something, and get some more high profile performers up here. He then came up with an idea of doing a Fat Pizza episode in Parkes next year! Should be a hoot.