Getting There

We are currently with the kids in one of Melbourne's S/E suburbs.  They depart for a two year teaching contract in Saudi Arabia in a week or so.  We are here to help out, though I don't seem to do much, and to farewell them at the airport on Saturday week.

We are catching up with friends while here and are slowly but surely getting our appointment book under control.

We have a little trouble catching some people but with a little persistence we manage to get hold of them.

Yesterday, Monday, we caught up with our Financial Advisor here in Melbourne for an update on our situation.  It seems it will be steady as you go.  We alerted him we wanted to travel to see the kids in Saudi Arabia and possibly check out a few things in Europe as well in April 2015.  If we were going that far we might as well do some stuff.

That shouldn't be a problem we were told and he will manage things accordingly.

Trish has it all planned, a 9 day guided tour of Spain, several nights in Barcelona, a 24 day cruise of the Mediterranean and a few weeks in Saudi Arabia.  All told it would be around 8 weeks away!

From our appointment with our Advisor we went looking for another 'warm' place spend to some time.  Fountain Gate Shopping Centre seemed to fill the bill so that is where we went.  My old rechargeable el cheapo electric razor died recently so I was on the lookout for a replacement.

I don't like electric shavers that much but they are handy especially when travelling and in case of emergency. 

Needless to say we ate lunch while at the Shopping Centre, a small place called The China Bar which just so happens to have Char Koay Teow on its menu!

Not being school holidays meant the Centre wasn't overcrowded.

Today is a bit of house cleaning and there is a hard rubbish collection booked as well.  There are a couple of nibbles for their car which they have for sale as well which certainly would solve some problems for them.

I am not sure what I am actually up to today, I will just go with the flow!  Maybe I will download a TV show or two..... for a change! Or maybe I will catch up with a mate?