Our long awaited trip around Australia ðĶðš has been in the planning for over a year. We are going for an unknown length of time. We set our departure date so we would be here for our grandson Issac and Skye's wedding. They generously gave us plenty of advanced notice ððŦðĨðĨģðð
Fortunately (but sadly) Mark has sold his plane and it flew off to a new home in South Australia.
We also had the pleasure of taking our grandson, Cooper, to the tree top challenge on the Sunshine Coast for his 18th birthday. It was very hard to get photos but he had a great time.
Unfortunately I had a few skin issues to be dealt with before departure, so we delayed leaving for an extra 2 weeks. Even more unfortunately the surgery was delayed by 2 days which caused a minor clash with appointments ð. Even MORE unfortunately the surgery wasn't as simple as first expected. It took 2hrs instead of the 45mins expected as the skin damage was more extensive than they thought. I ended up with 2 donor skin graft sites, 1 of which has 16 stitches. I won't gross you out with pictures ðĪŠ
The recovery has gone well and all the stitches on my nose were taken out after a week.
In the meantime while all this has been happening we have been packing up the house with the intention of putting it on the market later in the year but quite out of the blue we were made and accepted an offer for our house so we went into over drive to get everything organised before our new departure date.
Our household has been put into storage in Biggenden for when we eventually come back.
Tomorrow, Sunday 21/6/26, we hope to head off.
