Back Online

This morning I am finally back online.  I have had a long period between 'drinks' but rest assured we were having fun!

Lets go back.  I went to the Shark Bait weekend on December 4th and then never really made it home again.  The weekend away was great and fairly peaceful.  But it rained, and rained, and rained!  The creek came up and we were flooded out of the house.  So we had a fantastic dive,

and then didn't get home; really again!  So now I am due to leave for USA, where it is cold and snowing and all I have is the clothes, togs etc that were packed for the weekend to the Gold Coast, in the summer.  Once again friends and family stepped up to the plate.  We stayed Monday and Tuesday nights at Brian and Di's house and then the final night at Jill and Jim's.  The only thing that I was really concerned about were the passports and I kept making up strange ways of getting them across the river.  Everything else we could get in USA or had already been bought in USA and left there.  The weather did however co operate.  In a brief window on Wednesday, the creek was drivable, just but drivable.  I took off and switched out the clothes that I had and packed quickly (too quickly) for USA.  Yes I forgot stuff and didn't pack enough this and too much of that but it had started raining and for me the worst possible scenario was me stuck in and Levi stuck out!  So I grabbed the passports, threw stuff back in the car and drove out again before the creek rose again.  The stuff adventure is made of (that and high blood pressure). 

Jill was lovely and dropped us at the airport before she went to work and we started the big adventure!  The first part of which was to get upgraded to Premium Economy.  Now that was a sweet deal!  The only downfall was that the bar between our seats couldn't be lifted, so Levi couldn't spread out to sleep on the plane.  Luckily he could make do!

We were met off the plane by Robert and his friend Ken.  Levi ran to Robert to give him a big hug, so any fears that I may have had that Levi didn't remember were allayed at that point!  Then we started our adventures, but not before stopping at a clothing store to pick up a couple of things that I knew I hadn't packed: toiletries, Levi's shoes and other non important things like that. 

I hear the boys up now and will write up the next week tomorrow!