Wanna hear about my Easter?
My mum's best friend is dying from CJD and I took her to Melbourne to say goodbye, leaving on Good Friday. My mum is 82, pretty deaf, has breathing problems, and is fairly slow moving, and a very slow eater.
The first night her reading light blew a bulb. The second night, mine did and couldn't be fixed till the next day.
The visit to say goodbye was harrowing and very very sad.
The taxi driver got lost in his own suburb and asked US the way.
We left this morning. Wake-up call at 5 am for an 8.10 flight. My nephew-in-law whose place we were at last night insisted he drive us to the airport at 7 am, instead of our taking the shuttle bus at 6 am, which I had booked. (I cancelled the booking when we got back last night.)
I was outside having a cig at 6 am when the bus arrived. the reception girl hadn't told me it was too late to cancel and he was waiting for us.
Our lift arrived slightly late - he went to the wrong hotel. About 6 km from the airport, and cutting it very fine, we ran into a huge traffic jam all the way to the airport. We were 2 minutes late for our flight. No refund. He booked us on a later one which he paid for with his frequent flier points - he's a marketing professor and travels widely and is very well-off.
Mum started to feel faint at the airport, so I got some food into her, whereupon she discovered she hadn't taken her blood pressure tablets since last Friday. I just managed to catch my lift back from Launceston to Hobart by 10 minutes.
As we arrived, we got a text saying that the father of one of my closest friends had had a heart attack. When I went to unpack I couldn't find my keys. I rang the hotel who said that Housekeeping was shut till 7 am tomorrow so they didn't know if I'd left them there. My husband had to cut the lock off with an angle grinder. My keys were locked inside my case.
My dad just rang to say that the 8-DVD set of Ken Burns' baseball series that I had sent from the US for his 88th birthday can't be played in Australia.
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