We finished up the family weekend away at St Andrew's Beach and made our way back to Kate and Arj's for the Monday night. We had Kate's children with us as well and got them home safely where they badly needed a couple of good night's sleep. They have had that now.
Meanwhile on Tuesday we made our way to Indented Head and spent two great nights with my brother Geoff and his wife Jeanette. We don't see a lot of each other so the time we spent together was both alcoholic and extremely pleasant.
Geoff and Jeanette have become involved with Probus, a social get together group of ex professionals and business people and Trish and I accompanied Geoff and Jeanette to their Probus Xmas Meeting. It seemed fun so Trish and I may chase up a Probus group on the Sunshine Coast. Fund raising is not involved with Probus which makes it an even more attractive proposition.
Following the meeting Geoff took us on a brief sight seeing tour of the local area. The photo above was taken at a local Apple Cider producing establishment. The outlook is delightful as you can see.
We finally arrived back at Kate's again (after a quick side trip to the Vietnamese Restaurants in Springvale) around mid Thursday afternoon. Then it was out with "The Group" to another restaurant for the Xmas get together. This time the meal was Thai!
We enjoyed nibbles and some drinks at someone's house, then went to the restaurant for the Main Course, before returning to house for sweets and Kris kringle. It was all great fun and really good to catch up with old friends.
Since then things have been very very quiet. I have slept for well over 8 hours the last two nights which is much more than I usually need. I guess the last 6 weeks or so previously were beginning to catch up with us.
Xmas Eve will be quiet with a smallish Xmas lunch with Kate and family on Xmas Day. Then that Xmas night we head to Arj's family's Xmas Dinner. Being Sri Lankan, curries will be the order of the day.
Boxing Day will see us at Drouin for a BBQ with Barry Rainy et al, while I am hopeful of getting to the Melbourne Third Cricket Test for days 2 and 3. Day 3 could be wet so we will wait and see on that one.
Friday will be a quiet (watching Day 4 on the telly) and getting sorted day ready for the 1800km drive back home to Caloundra. We are aiming at a one night stop over trip this time and have our sights set on Gilgandra which means a little under 950k's in the day. It will be a long day but we did around 1100 k's when we drove from Newcastle NSW to Berwick on the way down.
With this plan we hope to be back home New Year's Eve.
But we will see!
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