Monday, March 30, 2009

March 12 2009

Hello again, well everything seems to be back on track again, sort of anyway, I'm back at work doing a full week's work and saving as much as possible. It's funny, I originally applied for a position as a casual on-call welder, and as it turns out it's now fulltime but still casual which is good because I only need work up to the 27th March. After that it's getting the house and property ship shape and packing up what's left in the house.

As far as our departure date goes, Shell came up with a really good idea. Instead of leaving at the beginning of April, why not hang around until Easter and instead of having a going away party, we go camping over Easter with our friends and their families. That way it's like a 4 day going away party, at the end of which everyone else returns home and we just keep going.

We have already booked the Easter weekend at a State Forest, just west of Gympie from there we have some ideas which will be decided on as we get closer to our new departure date. The other advantages of leaving a little bit later is that it puts that little bit extra coin into the coffers.

Now departure day or D-day as we're starting to call it is the 9th of April, and this time it is firm and will not be changed, pending major disaster, of course. Don't want to tempt fate.