It has been an anxious couple of days as we slowly but surely begin to get on top of things. We have opted to use the "Cooling Off" terms to cancel the Holiday Club we had joined. I see from my Express Mail 'tracking' the letter advising them we wanted out was signed for and collected this morning.
Just to be on the safe side I rang the Holiday Club yesterday (Monday) afternoon to get an email address then emailed them a copy of all the paperwork. Now refunds of deposit etc should begin to re appear in the account. I certainly slept a lot better last night.
It has been a little cool, overcast and showery here with around 25mls finding its way into the rain gauge.
But today the sun and warm (not hot) weather has returned. I did a bike ride after getting the car to the local Auto Service Centre for the car's 'getting ready to go to Melbourne" service.
Kate and family only spent a couple of days in Egypt but had some incredible adventures around the pyramids. We spoke with them via Skype Sunday evening and the kids seemed to have really love it surrounded by all that history.
We continue to modify plans for the Christmas trip to Melbourne with Kate and family flying back home just for Christmas. Kate flies in to Melbourne at 6:30 am on Saturday Dec 19th. Trish wants us to get to Melbourne as close to the 19th as possible. It seems Kate and family will be catching up with people ASAP the first day or so before we all head to Portsea (or somewhere on the Mornington Peninsula) for Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
While they are catching up with their friends over the arrival weekend, we will possibly head Drouin way to catch up with friends down there. Kate is keen to head to Carols by Candlelight Christmas Eve. Christmas will be spent together with the traditional "Bartholomeusz family Christmas Night". We will work out Christmas Day arrangements in due course. As Chris' wife's dad is ill, we expect they will head to Central Victoria to celebrate Christmas there.
From Christmas onwards we will still need to confirm accommodation, even if it means grabbing a motel for four or five nights along the way. A motel near to where Kate and the family will be staying seems a good alternative right now. We will spend a couple of nights with the Reardons before heading for home around New Year's Eve.
Those plans will most likely change again as we find out what the others are up to, especially Kim who is flying over from Perth.
But we will see.
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