Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Ohhh It's Been A While!!

Yep,  been a litle while !  Japan holiday was super. Flight straight thru only took 7hrs and what a 7hrs that was. Spoilt rotten on Jetstars business class, champayne on arrival...yaaay loving it!
after snacks, drinks watching movies it seemed no time before we had arrived. Hopped on the shuttle bus then the big one that took us to our hotel!   How gorgeous was that fairy lights everywhere, which by the way is a fav of mine!!The Hotel was perfect......in fact everything about Japan is pretty well spot on......the people are so welcoming and polite and everywhere sooooo clean!   We went at the right time of the year, all the cherry blossoms were out in full blooom ....!!Every where you looked  beautiful Cherry blossoms and the weather was perfect!Daughter Skye came with us, last time she'd been overseas she was 5yrs old so she was extremely excited to see how another culture lives!The days were spent sightseeing and of course SHOPPING!!!......Mainly clothes for Skye as most we saw were for the young!  Well at least thats where Skye directed us too!  I did need another pair of walking shoes so stopped to get some on the first day of shopping and John  (hubby) told me to get a second pair as they were soooooo cheap! I bought 3pairs.... whitfaced he came out after paying... only to realize he'd miscalculated the change over and spent $500 instead of $100!!!!   Hehehe!! I didn't care I had 3 new pairs....loving it!!Hubby waited patiently while we shopped and ....yep....kept going into the dark hours of the nite...aww poor John!  Lots of eating out and Japanese beer which I love till we caught up with sis and her daughter Emily who is currently residing in Japan teaching english! Here they are as we came out of a restuarant!Well it's dinner time here now and I'm signing off to go cook dinner and have a well earned glass of vino. Will continue with my Japan blog next time! Until then...おやすみなさい。.........Goodnight!!

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

What a Week!

Up I got with great anticipation picking up my sis from the airport only to be told the road was closed again and not opening till the next day! What to do!!!! The only way was over Mt Molloy which was a two hour drive through the pouring rain and the worry of me getting lost! No good with directions. But lucky for me ...not my hubby... he couldn't get to work the normal way either... so I had someone to follow! Great!  Finally arrived, went  to pick her up and of course...delayed!  Waited around for hours, she should have been here at 12.30 and didn"t arrive till 5pm...arrrrrrrrr!!!!!!  

Now we have to get home via the same way...over Mt Malloy in the pouring rain and pitch blackness!  No lights anywhere except from the occassional passing car which by the way blinds me!  Finally after 2 very long hours of swearing driving panicking and swearing again we arrived home exhausted!  Then cooked dinner...YES....cooked dinner, wine in hand cause I needed it and talked till 1am!   What a tireing day, but a happy ending as it was great to have sis here!!!!  Next we're off to Japan!! See ya!