Tuesday, 18 August 2009

The Big Adventure Part Three

We arrived in Sydney at about five in the morning, i was quite fresh and ant looked better than i had ever seen him after a flight. On the transport in to the city the nerves started to kick in a little and then when we got to the hotel it was too much. No sign of mum and aunty m in the lobby or bar, so i asked at the desk if they had a Carlin registered, no they hadn't, Wood? no, so i didn't know what to do and started to get a bit dithery. Ant booked us in and we went to our room, a suite which was lovely, he tried to get online to see if there were any messages for us but i said we had to go back down to the lobby and see of we had just missed them. Ant asked the receptionist if there were any messages for him, "no, oh wait yes!! your mum will phone you in your room" so we headed back up to the room and within a minute of getting through the door the phone rang. Ant answered it was mum, they were on the same floor as us so we headed over to their room, rang the door bell and waited. Mum answered the door, she was pretty much exactly the person i had in my head, we hugged for a while then hugged aunty m, there were very few tears and then we sat and chatted for a bit, we decided to go back to our room so ant could get changed and we could smoke there as well. When we got there we exchanged gifts, mum had given me two huge beautiful aussie cook books and a load of Kath and Kim goodies for ant, aunty m gave us a lovely book on the Pemberton region and two bottles of Salitage wine and a Salitage teeshirt and apron, i have been in the teeshirt daily and am wearing it as i type. Aunty m phoned aunty Bobbie and i had a quick chat to her. When we were all ready we headed down to the Sofitel club and had some breakfast then decided what to do with the day, it was still very early, mum suggested a city tour bus out to Bondi, which sounded good so we headed down to circular key to check it out.
When we got there the place was shut so we sat and waited for it to open, aunty m's daughter phoned and we all had a chat to her. When it opened we decided it was ridiculously priced so we headed off for a coffee then decided we would take the ferry to Manly and have a look round there, which we did. At Manly we had a bit of a wander then settled down in a German beer bar and all had a beer, then we headed back to circular to get the ferry to darling and find some lunch. On the ferry on the way back over i noticed two of my old teachers from Kirkbie Kendal, Mr and Mrs Thompson, i went over and said hello, they live there now and had just got their permanent residency, what a coincidence!!
We headed over to darling and found a place for food, we all had fish and chips, which were very good and sat with a bottle of Riesling, which was also very good. We decided we had to get a couple of hours sleep in so headed back to the hotel and fell straight to sleep when we got into the loveliest bed i have ever slept in. At seven we met up again and headed out to a local restaurant where we ate some very good modern aussie cuisine, then headed back to the hotel where we had another drink then went up to our room to look at some photos on aunty m's ipod on the tv. Finally it was time to say good night and we all headed off to sleeptown very happy.

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