House, Home and Highway Hijinks

I've been putting off the final entry of the blog because if nothing else it reminds me the trip is over and done with. That aside I'm enjoying being back amongst my mates and other family. Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you miss it! Reading back over stuff makes me realise how much we did.

The flight from Singapore to Sydney was a pretty decent one. The body clock took a bit of a battering but otherwise we arrived in good nick. Customs was a laugh, going through 10 times faster than everyone else because we actually bothered to declare stuff, not that the customs folks were in the slightest bit interested.

Richard was waiting to pick us up thank goodness. In the rain. It must be me! Apparently he'd been there quite a while as Mum got a bit anxious and booted him out of the house way too early. It was weird sitting in the passenger seat for once having been the sole driver for the best part of 5 weeks. I was pretty knackered though and happy enough to be a spectator for once.

The trip had one more twist in store for us. 20 minutes from home Dad's car overheated on the Lappo hill and we ended up parked by the servo at Glenbrook. Poor Dad, you do someone a favour and look what happens! Fortunately the tow truck got thier pretty quick and Anita saved us from a long wait by rushing down to jam all of us and out luggage in the car. Quite a team effort getting us home from the airport in the end. I've since found out my Dad also broke down after he dropped us off the day we left. Talk about Carma. Sorry, couldn't help myself ;-)

The house was in great shape when we got back thanks to Jenny the House Sitter. Many thanks Jen! We had no hot water unfortunately but that was a quick fix and considering we'd been gone for 5 weeks a pretty good result. The dogs barked at us when we got in (morons!) but before long were doing all the usual stuff like demading affection. Shanks has pretty much forgiven me for leaving him too, albeit at great personal cost.

Not much left to do now apart from thank a bunch of folks. Wyn, Gareth and Rebecca for taking us in, Julie, John and co for a brilliant night out, Steve and Dennis for catching up and finally everyone who followed and commented on the blog. It was good fun and I'm glad others got a few vicarious holiday moments as a consequence. Not sure I've got the styaing power to be a travel writer no matter what Ev thinks.

Time to start planning the next trip I reckon. It's been at least three weeks since I've had any mint cake...

Cheers,
Millsy