Friday 27 September 2013 – Last full day of holiday

We couldn’t believe it when we woke this morning and the sun was shining and the wind had dropped!  What a lovely surprise.  You could never expect such a radical change overnight.  It seems that the Latrobe Valley had the same severe weather yesterday as we had here as I heard on the wireless this morning that there are over 1000 homes still without power in the Valley.

We had a visiting morning.  After breakfast and doing a couple of chores we went to see my aunty Ike who lives here in a town house.  She is 86 now and keeping reasonably well – though dramatises everything, so I take most things she tells us with a grain of salt.  She seemed pleased to see us.

Ike Grix

From there we went to see my Uncle and Aunty – Alf and Helen.  That was a different story as they were really pleased to see us and are great company.  We had a heap of laughs there, especially when their friend Laura arrived with her daughter Julie and granddaughter Hayley who were all very funny.  Old Laura is 85 and a real dag – says what she thinks and in a pretty straightforward way, so that was good.  We were there for about an hour and a half.

Alf and Helen Jessup

Back at the caravan park we had some lunch then sat out in the sun reading the paper, then my book while Grant had forty or fifty winks in the sun.  He then went for a walk – I didn’t go as I have a very sore crack in my heel from wearing sandals and thongs all the time, and it’s not easy to put my foot down with normal walking pressure.  So I continued to read and chat to a couple of the neighbours.

Tonight we’ve wound up the holiday with take away for tea – and what else would you have at Lakes Entrance but fish and chips, and they were very nice.