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So for the bulk of Thursday we went from hotel to hotel trying to find the perfect accommodations for our grand Shabbaton in Cairns. We finally settled on one right near the central shopping street and promised to be a very ideal location for a Shabbos meal.
After finalizing the location we proceeded to make tons of phone calls and mass texts to all the Jews in Cairns, telling them of the exciting news. As of friday morning we expected about 10-15 people at the Shabbaton, and even that was a high number. We learned a few hours before Shabbos that it was a semi-holiday in Cairns because of the local fair, and because of that most of the stores were closed. So we had a pretty big problem: We had no fish for our Shabbos meal. So we called up one of new friends in Cairns (who happens to own a restaurant here) and told him about our predicament and he said he'll call his supplier and he'll see what happens. Sure enough, 90 minutes before Shabbos he came to out hotel room with 3 whole fish, right out of the ocean! Well, that kinda led into our next problem: none of us knew how to scale, cut or fillet a fish, but we quickly learned! Came Shabbos and we had 4 pans filled with freshly grilled fish!
Shabbat Shalom!
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