Here we go!!
Today is Kerry's birthday. Her 60th – no less! And we're celebrating with this massive undertaking – six weeks touring India – the world's most populous country. It'll be full of sounds, sights, smells and cultures we've never witnessed before. I's gonna be very different.
We bade good-bye to Percy, Wilson and Jim. Molly went to the Heathcote Dog Kennels yesterday. Jim is a chap we met for the first time yesterday. He is a friend of Lyn Lindsay's sister who goes about the country-side house-sitting for people like us who are away for a while. He parked his motor-home next to the garage, plugged in the power and he was done. He'll keep and eye on the house, water the garden and feed Percy and Wilson. Percy will be lucky enough to get a walk too.
As is now customary, we walked our bags down to the bus-stop to wait for the No, 54 into Bendigo station. Our bags proved to be a great conversation started amongst to passengers, ourselves and the driver. They were all interested to know where we were going. When we reached Bath Lane we hopped off and went to speak to Leanne at the Travel Agency about a concern I had with the checked-in baggage allowance. Got that sorted, had a coffee and then continued our bus journey up Mitchell St to the station.
The 10:30am train rolled in, picked us up and headed for Melbourne. Tonight we're staying at the Great Southern Hotel in Spencer St. It's just across the road from the more refined Grand Hotel but it's close to the SkyBus terminal. Wandered down to The Crown for quick bite to eat and then back to the hotel to get ready for Kerry's 60th birthday celebrations at the Squire's Loft in the Docklands precinct. There we met with Garry and Jenni, Annemarie and Garry, Michael and Franciose and Emily. Just a small family gathering with Kerry's siblings and Emily. I frequented this establishment regularly as a guest of various IT vendors and I celebrated my last working day in Melbourne here too. After another superb steak we headed back to the hotel to make our final preparations for tomorrow's departure.
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