The small bush town of Goondiwindi has a Malaysian restaurant but we don't have one for the whole of the Sunshine Coast!
We haven't had a chance to get a blog post up any earlier than this despite having access to wifi most of the way but it was just suitable for emails and a little surfing.
The car didn't skip a beat the whole trip. The new Waeco portable freezer performed admirably!
Whilst in Melbourne we had our usual visit to Drouin on Boxing Day to catch up with friends Barry and Rainy (and others). We spent the night with them as well. Then for a night with other friends June and Keith and finally two nights with Patsy and Eddie at their place.
We caught Kate and the kids again for a lunch (PapaRich Malaysian at Chadstone) and also with Kim and a friend for Vietnamese at Springvale. I have now replenished my supply of 'Chilli Oil' from Springvale as well!
We arrived home just in time as the water in the pool was extremely low. Around 45 minutes of topping up was required to get it sorted. During the cleaning up around the house I noticed water around the pool pump. The rusty marks on the pump housing as you can see in the photo above indicated a problem.
Just to replace the pump with the same high energy using model we had was $550.
A new much lower energy using pump will be installed on Monday and we will be $740 poorer! The guy in the shop said we were extraordinarily lucky to get 10 years use out of the Onga pump previously fitted.
Whilst staying with Eddie and Patsy discussion got around to cruises. We informally agreed to do the Fremantle Brisbane cruise together on May 1st. Regretfully a quick check online showed balcony cabins for the cruise were sold out. Eddie has a few contacts in the travel industry and made some further enquiries as we were driving home to Caloundra.
While in our first stop West Wyalong motel room he rang to say there were two cabins available on the May 1st Cruise via a contact of his and did we now want to go? We quickly rang back confirming our interest. He would venture into the office the next morning and book the two cabins.
At the next night's overnight stop an angry Eddie rang back to tell us he had been given incorrect information on the availability of two cabins, in reality after carefully checking the agent found there was actually only one vacancy! So the cruise was off, then back on and again back off all within 24 hours!
As you can imagine the clothesline is full of washing as we get things done around the house after being away.
I was gifted 3 days of 'paid' downloading for a special website I always visit. It has been going flat chat since our arrival back home. With the academy Awards a few months way, there are lots of "DVD Screeners" ('in house' copies of the latest movies made available for Academy Award judging purposes).
We will have some great movie watching nights coming up!
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