Unpacking

As we are now staying at David and Zoe's, the master packer has had a chance or rather an opportunity to display her unpacking skills.  There is nothing quite like seeing the bottom of a suitcase you haven't seen for two months.
The thrill of having proper drawers to put things in and a wardrobe large enough to hang things up in presented too great a temptation and so we are now completely unpacked.
For me it creates a major problem in that I have to find my clothes and belongings in drawers that have been allocated to me. As I took no part in the whole process I can not complain.
So unpacking and doing the washing takes almost all of one morning,still we have been travelling for so long that it is almost a pleasure to see all of our belongings again.
After the joys of unpacking we borrowed Zoe's car and headed off to reacquaint ourselves with Manly . It hasn't changed much since last year! We wandered into a supermarket and purchased items we badly needed, deodorant, shampoo and a new sponge for Rosemarie. This is not to say that we have been unclean but rather that we have just run out.We walked down to the beach and watched the surfers for a while and generally we were happy to be back, it almost felt a little like coming home.
After David and Zoe returned home we took the two dogs down to the beach to exercise them and had a quiet evening.
In general it doesn't quite seem to be Christmas , we see Father Christmases and Christmas decorations up, David and Zoe have a tree up and flashing lights outside but the weather is not conducive to putting one in the Christmas spirit. Neither of us have been away from England before so it is a great thrill for us to be doing something completely different, that and the fact that we might never do this agin make it very special. Having said that despite the fact that Australia is a very expensive it has a hold of us and there is no doubt that we will return, that is of course as long as we don't upset all those people who have been kind enough to host us.