It's hard to believe how quickly Christmas is approaching! We have been very busy indeed. I've been fighting spring allergies which has included some long running headaches so it's been fairly blurry to me. Fortunately, today has been a great day... no headache and I've been catching up on a lot of things with able assistance from Bernard.
We had a goal of posting our Christmas package to the US by Friday. We didn't quite make it but were happy that we'd make it on Saturday by 2pm to the old post office in the Sydney CBD. Most post offices here are not open on the weekend. The finishing touches took longer than expected and we did not get there in record time so we found ourselves dashing to the post office doors just as the not-so-jolly postal employee was running (really) to lock the doors so we couldn't get in. He did open the door long enough to answer our question about alternate post offices that might be open with a resounding "no" that there was no other option (hmm... more later). As consolation, we carried our box through the streets and up the hill to The Australian pub where we had some yummy pizza, good Aussie beer and a lovely time sitting in the breezy shade reading the newspaper.
Sunday morning, I woke up before Bernard and thought for a bit about how I was disappointed that we'd missed posting the package. Then it occured to me that if any post office was likely to be open on the weekend, it would surely be near the airport. I poked around on the Australia Post website and found there is a post office in Terminal 1 at the international part of Sydney Airport open 6am to 8pm, 7 days per week. I woke Bernard with "hey! there's a post office open today!" We booked a car, breakfasted, showered, and were on our way... short term parking, quick and friendly service and we now have high hopes that our package will arrive before Christmas day. We then extended the car booking and headed down to Brighton-Le-Sands for a fish and chips (aka french fries) lunch in the shade at the beach. Very pleasant.
We spent much of Sunday evening reading contracts and trying to make wedding decisions before giving up and going to bed to mull it over some more. We will keep you posted as soon as there's something definite (and we hope that will be really soon now).
Besides work, the big accomplishment for today is that my AU citizenship application is now submitted... yay! Dual nationality for US citizens is possible as long as the person did not intend to give up their US citizenship. You've all heard me talk about this, I'll say it here again and I'll also be documenting this on paper... I do not intend to give up my US citizenship. I will be quite happy to be a citizen of both the USA and Australia.
That's all for now. Love to you all and goodnight/good morning!
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Merry Christmas to both of you. I like this blog deal. Works pretty good if I don't get on it right of way. Hope things are well there. Everything is fine here. Just waiting on the old folks to get here. Bet they would appreciate that. Still don't know if we go to Radford or if they come here. Talk to you again soon.
This is a test to see if I'm doing this correctly. Coby
Hey this is really neat. I was talking with your Dad a few minutes ago and he told me how to read responders comments and to add my own. I do like your blog.
As I said, I was talking with your Mom and Dad about Christmas, our travel plans and life in general. Your Dad sounds so good--relaxed, at ease and with a good sense of humor. The way we go to talking about your blog was that he asked if I had seen his comments on your blog regarding your last posting. He wanted me to see the comment about "Just waiting on the old folks to get here."He confirmed what I suspected, he was referring to Bob and me! That reminded me that for years Bob has referred to us as "the young moderns." He would say as we left the house to go to some event, "Well here go the young moderns off to another play" or what ever the event was. Well the other day we were going to a dinner and he said, "Well here go the old farts." I'm not sure when we went from being young moderns to old farts.
More later. Love to you both. Until......Coby
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