You will not believe where we are. We went for a drive last night in the rain, turned left, it got even wetter for a while then when we looked again, we were in Bali!
But I am getting ahead of myself. We started the day packing
up Girt. We moved her down to the parking area and at about 11 we went into
town to catch up with our lovely niece Jessica Martyn. Jessica has been in
Darwin for some time now with her medical studies and the Army. We texted her
when we got into town but she was working all the weekend and we finally were
able to catch her. It was nice to catch up for a coffee and hear what she was
up to. We said our good byes and went over to Casuarina shopping for some lunch
and then down to the museum. We were not in the best of moods at the time as I will
explain a little later and we just wanted to get on the plane. Our flight was
at 7:30 so we had a bit of time. I will explain now how our trip came about.
It is a really funny story. When we started out on our odyssey,
our timeline was that we would be through Darwin before thee end of September
and our daughter Tia was going to Bali in October and she wanted us to fly out
and meet her. We said no as we would not be there, well as you know our
timeline went all potty so a few weeks ago we realised we would be in Darwin in
October so we booked our tickets and we thought we would surprise her. Tia was
very nervous about the trip as it was her first without us and although she was
travelling with Sam’s mum and sister, they were coming back early leaving her
and Sam for a few days. We thought we would arrive before Lesley and Rebecca left
and stay until Tia left and this would mean Tia and Maureen would have their
birthdays together. Great plan, what could go wrong? (heard this before?) We
thought we had done very well in keeping our secret when talking to Tia when
she was saying she was nervous and a couple of times we almost told her. Well
the morning we were going to leave, we get a text from Tia saying she had
changed her trip and was flying home with Lesley! Well it put us all in a tizz.
We got to the airport, booked in and we said hello to
Jessica’s partner Tian(?), a lovely girl and very friendly to two strange
people wandering up to her. We got my wheelchair and we went through to the
gates. Maureen had just about worn a hole in the carpet walking up and down. She
gets nervous before any trip, but with everything else happening and looking
forward to seeing Tia, she was in overdrive. We got on the plane and 2 ½ hours
later popped out at Bali. The plane had steps to go down so I managed those and
whilst everyone else waited for the bus, a car came out and picked Maureen and I
up and drove us to the terminal. We got into my wheelchair and away we went, no
checked in bags so straight through immigration and customs and out to the
taxis. We got to the hotel soon after and caught up with Tia. She had decided
she wanted to stay on with us and to cut a long story short, we got her flight
organised – crisis averted.
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