Yesterday we picked up Sam from Melbourne Airport. He’s now staying with us for the next week. The family here now number eight. In the evening we all shared takeaway pizza, a light game of charades and an in house movie, Loopers. Sam played a little guitar for us all.
I have to make a comment about Tiger Direct. They have a bad rep here in Australia. Everyone ‘knows’ they’re often late. We’ve flown with them lots. The only delays we’ve had were due to runway closures at Brisbane which affected all planes. Yesterday, either Sam caught the wrong plane or his arrived 25 minutes early. Both hypotheses seem implausible but we can think of no others. All good.
On Wednesday Helen and I went out for a walk to Jell’s Park again. We hunted down two geocaches. The first required us to traverse long grass so we passed on it. The second we found. I took a ‘photo sphere’ of the location. Take a look. Use your mouse to drag the image around. It goes all the way around. You can even go full screen. Cool don’t you think? (Turns out the following links hammer Chrome so for now I have put in a break and you can choose when to head on and look)
Here is another photo sphere taken when we were in Melbourne a few days ago.
And some more pics.
Finally, we have now booked all (bar the flight from here to Sydney) of our flights to South Africa travelling via Sydney and Hong Kong. We have a lot of ideas mapped out on how to spend our time in both cities. We will be flying into Durban on the first of February where we’ll meet up with Diane, Gerald and Bee from Whiskers before bussing it down to Grahamstown to meet up with my family there a few days later. We’re excited by all of it.
For me, Hong Kong will be geek heaven (I hope) as I can buy and drool over much stuff before it gets out to the rest of the world. I am already building my shopping list.
Today it is hot, hot, hot. 40C. We’re all off to watch Life of Pi. The cinemas are cool. Helen, Sam and I will be watching it in 3D while the Barber’s will be watching it in 2D.
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