@MochinbachThe sun is shinning and warming your body as you drive. The window’s open and you’re on your way home. You take a deep breath and wait for that moment of total relaxation to happen. For a rush of warm energy to raise from the back of your spine all the way to your head; for your eyes to open wide and smile; to know you feel good; that you are good.
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I saw the 4 new signs, designed to look a little like flags, along the front first, then (as I drove down the drive) I followed some very posh looking signs down a newly tarmaced drive and parked the car. New signs; every building labelled to within an inch of it’s life and a really cute sign post directing you to the purpose of the building 4 meters away.
Brand new red leather sofas in reception and LCD TVs showing the days events like a professional CPD center I once knew well in Hindmarsh. It’s all looking very professional, modern and new.
Of course, we’re still in the same buildings and the classrooms are no different than they were back when we were just a ‘school’ but there is a changed mood. Even though, fundamentaly we’ve got a new logo and signs everything does feel exciting and new.
Change is good. 
It’s been mentioned that people don’t read this anymore because its too depressing (lmao). Sorry about that 
. Truth is this year has been really hard for many reasons which I won’t get into here. I have enjoyed many things about 2008 though (of course I have) and despite my frustration i am happy to be with my friends and family. It has been a turbulant year and it’s nice to see most things working out for most people.
Today has been lovely. I spent the whole day with my lovely husband in my new Pig slippers. We ate and ate and ate and LOF enjoyed the fact that I had deliberatly made too many sausages wrapped in ham – this meant that he could say ” I want a sausage” and one would be delivered – heaven! lol Needless to say all 12 are gone now
We’ve spent the whole day chilling out. Watched movies, cooked and ate dinner together. We entertained my Nan, Mum and Dad, Sis and G for about 2 hours and fed them some tea when they were on their way back from the hospital (visiting my cousin) which was fun. They did help those sausages to disappear though
Once they left we just chilled out a little more. I’m really enjoying my new CDs. The Live Lounge 3 CD2 is awesome and very chilled. I actually like some of the songs that normally I HATE…. I suppose it’s not the actual song I have a problem with…. lol
All in all it’s been a very relaxed and enjoyable xmas. We’re going to pop to see my cousin tomorrow and maybe take a trip on the bike so LOF can try out his new jacket. It all depends on the chain being oiled… apparently! If not I’ll be reading “Beadle the Bard” and enjoying the complete lack of pressure to do anything. I’d forgotten what that felt like
HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY
I’ve posted todays pictures below.
I’m off to bed NOW. The end of a very different and fun Christmas day. We’re still waking up at 10:30am and heading out at around 11:30. This morning we spent sometime downstairs in the hotel lobby which contained fake snow, reindeer’s, Christmas trees and snowmen. Once we’d had something to drink and eat we decided to try, once again, to get to Jeremiah beach, This time in a taxi. It quickly became very obvious that there is no way that we could have walked from our hotel – The Arabian Courtyard- to the beach. It took about 10mins in the taxi to get there down long and dangerous looking highways.
We couldn’t find a way to get onto the 7 star hotels’ beach but we did locate the beach right next to it (There was even a photographer trying to take pictures through the fence into the 7 star hotel – I wonder who was there?) We Sat down , relaxed called mum and Dad and then decided to walk further along the beach to find the water park.
At about 1/2pm we entered the Wild Wadi Water Park. (at a discounted rate because we were so late!) This park was no ordinary water park. I tell you, they don’t do things by half here! You can pay to put money on a plastic wrist watch which acts as payment for everything. This means that everything goes in a locker, nice and safe and everything is taken care of for you.
As I was waiting for Matt to get changed I was stood by a man-made cliff. Suddenly, theme park style thunder and lightning sound effects began. Amused by this I turned around to notice a pretty waterfall had started behind me. I was observing this with the usual Ohh- Ahh and wonder when suddenly the pretty waterfall turned into a tsunami and soaked me, flooded the footpath and went gushing off into the distance! Brilliant but I was soaked. Good job I got changed first!
We had a whale of a time on the rides. You sit in a doughnut which floats you to the beginning of each slide. When you get to one you fancy you line your self up and off you go. Jet propulsion sends you up the slide and gravity does the rest. You don’t need to cue up though, you just float along. The only concern is whether or not you’ll still be wearing your bikini bottoms once those jets of water start pushing you along! Note however that cheap swim suits like mine will not withstand the pressure. When I got back to the hotel and washed out my bikini my bottoms were thread bare and had to be thrown away!
Once the park closed at 6pm we sat on the beach and watched the sunset. Actually we got a little chilly then and got into a taxi back to the hotel. I then caught up on the blog and we had dinner, sat in the Sherlock Holmes British Bar for a pint and then mack to the room at 10pm.
A really different Christmas!
By the way I think that Vodaphone have helpfully ignored my letter and have cancelled my phone contract way too early. So I can’t receive any more messages or send them on my old number. I’m going to be a new Sim in Australia though.
Thank you all for your messages so far and I hope you’re all having a great Christmas.