Sleep — must have more sleep…
A midnight start to a plane ride is not a good thing. Over three hours in the air, plus two more for timezones, and we landed at Melbourne just after 6 am. Minimal legroom, no pillow, and a screaming baby meant that I didn’t sleep much at all. Joey managed to sleep most of the way.
Luggage retrieved and repackaged. Airport bus located and boarded. 7 am into Spencer street, fog thickening around us.
Final stage in the journey home — a narrow escape. We climbed on the tram at Spencer street behind two indian-sounding tourists and sat down while they discussed at great length the intricate workings of the ticket machine. Laziness, tiredness, and bad habits meant that we didn’t get up to buy a ticket after they finally finished — and then the ticket inspektors entered… Jo pushed past them to buy tickets, but found she hadn’t got enough change for two, my guardian angel must have been hanging around though — while sorting through my wallet yesterday I’d noticed that I had an unused 2hour metcard. A few minutes of frantic rummaging, two tickets appear, and the inspektors took pity on the sleep-deprived scruffy-looking backpackers — us.
Home, to bed, to sleep for a few hours.
Eleven o’clock and the couriers arrive. Myer’s bridal registry delivery. Seven parcels with one courier, one parcel with another! Three items aren’t delivered, the printed listing merely states “contact store.” We contact the store to find out, “we don’t know, I’ll call you back within the hour.” About four hours later they called back and we found that although we had chosen the items, and Myer had accepted the choice, and people had purchased the items, Myer didn’t actually have the item in stock anymore. A little insistence on our part and they called back to say that they did have one of them, but not at the moment, the other two we’ll just have to accept credit vouchers and buy something else. Not a particularly impressive service.
Dinner time and we finally made this month’s meal off the pasta calendar. We’re keeping to the , but lagging badly! Now we can turn the page to April, with only eight days left in the month…
