BACK TO PERTH

Day 362

Perth, WA

Caught the bus back to Perth in HOT weather..42C! Arrived at 2.30pm. 6 hour journey.

Mum came and picked us up with her glowing white smile.

One step closer to getting into our home!

Rob popped over for a cuppa after work, which was nice.!

Day 363

Mum's House. Claremont. WA

Last night we went to Angie and David's (Greg's brother) for dinner bbq which was wonderful!! Gorgeous Alena was there too and it was so great seeing her..and so was Hannah, Alena's half sister.

Greg had a pretty whiskey sort of night because David brought out his best scotch whiskey (from Scotland)and because I was driving (mum's car because we don't have our own yet) he was able to indulge and reminisce with his brother.

There was talk of the family conflict but we soon got off that track, thank goodness. They all seem to lead up the garden path if you ask me!

Funny how we are so far out of the 'loop' if you could call it that. We are fairly disinterested in the family saga's..and it seems they are neverending. The same issues are still present that were causing stress a year ago! I just don't want to get into it! Reality has struck i think.

We're both feeling a bit low really. Post Travel Blues?

It's either a culture shock or a desire for happiness. We were stimulated so much by new experiences we were encountering that we forgot about the nitty gritty family issues. It must be that people inherently get stuck in a timewarp unless they make a conscience effort to get out of it.

Life is TOO SHORT for conflict.

Gosh Angie is a great cook. We took along the champagne Bob and Yvonne presented us with at the "Welcoming" at the Perth Airport and she cooked a seafood feast. Nothing is too much effort for Angie. She's a wonderful hostess that's for sure!

As we were leaving, David asked if we wanted to buy his ZERO DOLLAR CAR. We took him up on the offer since we don't have a vehicle. THe only thing was it had a yellow sticker!!!!

He said he'd take it over the pits while we were at Rotto, to get it checked out and fix what was wrong so we could drive it. I don't think he was actually "giving" us a car, more he was lending us his beaten up old bomb until some other deserving relative claimed it for a while. We had to laugh!

Anyway, we'll see how it goes, if we can use it until we get ourselves another car, GOOD!

We got home really late..and because we were getting up really early, we packed before bed and set the alarm for 6am.

Tomorrow - off to ROTTO! Yay - my most favourite place on earth!!!! And still is, even after all the world adventures we've had and places we've been! ROTTO is dream island - and actually, the place where I'd like to rest my soul for eternity :)

Now - Rotto for a week..THEN we go back into our house.

xxx