Tuesday 5 December, 2003
Today our furniture and countless number of boxes of ‘things’ were finally delivered to our new Villa in the very pretty Tarragal Glen Retirement VIllage at Erina in the Central Coast of NSW. It has been a HUGE day, and we are now relaxing, feeling totally exhausted in our caravan back up at the Canton Beach Holliday Park.
We have experienced such an overwhelming feeling of anticipation, excitement and just a little trepidation about our decision to finally “down size” and leave our beautiful Southern Highlands home on Bong Bong Hill in Moss Vale.
The boys were already unpacking the first van when I dropped Norm off at the Villa this morning. I then needed to deliver Rosie and Coomalie to their ‘Pet Restort’ up the road, where they will be chilling out in stye for the next three days.
By the time I arrived back at our new home, the Big Truck had arrived, and boxes and furniture was being transferred into every spare space possible by those two fit, strong young men. With the temperature rising up into the early 30’s, they worked steadily and cheerfully for the next 5 hours. We were both in awe of their ability to keep going. Finally by about 3pm the truck was empty and we bid them farewell and safe journey home.
We then sank into our lounge chairs feeling totally exhausted and overwhelmed. It was 4pm before we could finally drag our weary and starving selves back onto our feet and into the car to drive up to Erina Fair for a very very late lunch. Alhough most of the food outlets were closing or closed, we found the fabulous owner off AROMAS, Ramazan was willing to whip us up a couple the best sandwiches we have enjoyed for ages.
Feeling revived thanks to Ramazan, we returned to our Caravan home. It felt strange without our fur babies. We have become so used to living together, the four of us: Norm, Me, Rosie and Coomalie since moving from Bong Bong Hill and into the Belagio on 10 October.
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