Staying a bit longer

Hello there,

Well we've left Cairns and have been in Brisbane for the past week and half, staying with Dave's folks who have been kind enough to put me up.

Brisbane has been banter, went to Dreamworld like Alton towers but not as many rides, although there was one called the Giant Drop which had a 120m drop "The Giant Drop is the tallest free-falling ride in the world according to the Guiness Book of World Records."

As some of you might know, after much deliberation & a lot of pressurising from team ireland we've decided to stay a bit longer in Australia, we're going to do our full year here, which was my plan in the first place, then go back home through asia with the irish!!

We've had to cancel the Singapore to Heathrow part of our flight as it will expire so we have to buy a ticket from Bangkok home but that's not bad as we go to back to melbourne on Monday, can't wait to be in Melbourne again, to start work with our old boss Rod.

So from now on i'm going to be on the save to pay for flights and all the rest until we leave on the 31st of January then we should be home at the end of April/start of May.

The decision was a bit of a difficult one seeing as i am on the low side of cash but the thought of going home to search for work as opposed to going to Melbourne to do a job i enjoy didn't really weigh up and if i did go home i'd have ended up regretting not staying.

I suppose christmas might be a bit hard without the family and all the banter with the boys that i was really looking forward to but its only an extra 4 months till we're back in the sneck.

Anyway i'm off to phone qantas to get my flight itenary sent to my e-mail which they forgot to do, i'll fire up another update when we're down in Melbourne next week some time in the mean time drop me an e-mail or leave a comment and I'll get back to you.

Cheers

Col Boy