Well here we are at the end of the "Big Trip" it has all gone too fast and we are sad to be returning home but really looking forward to seeing our family again. Ten weeks away has been a long time and we have many wonderful memories as well as 1300 photos to bore you all with.....don't come to visit us for a few weeks....stay clear or be bombarded with photo's and bragging stories.....ha ha.
After returning from Greece we spent the last few days in England with family, we had a wonderful visit to another Auntie, Margaret on my mum's side of the family and we met up with my cousins Tommy and Ian and Ian's family whom we had never met before. It was a good few hours of chatting and swapping family updates, makes me really miss not having any extended family in Australia.
We had a great evening out celebrating Tony & Lesley's friends Graham & Yvonne's 30th wedding anniversary (we went to Stratford on Avon with them). We had a great meal at an Indian restaurant and the laughs never stopped, what a great bunch. We would really like to thank them for inviting us, we feel like we have known them forever. Chris has never laughed so much in such a long time and it's moments like these we will miss.
It was great to see David (Lesley's son) & Holly one more time, they made a special drive to Runcorn to see us; we hope to see them visit us in Australia one day soon, they make a lovely couple and we wish them all the best for the future.
Chris made one last major shopping day in England, she spent a lovely day out with Lesley and Jennifer at a massive retail outlet shopping centre, I gave her a pocketful of pounds to spend but she still managed to spend extra, all on necessary things of course. We have upgraded our baggage limit twice for the return flights and sent 10KG of posted items home already!!! It was all good, she had a great day "girls" day out with really great company.
While Chris and the girls were out shopping I managed to spend the day in Chester, I really like this city it is full of history, ruins from the Roman times, a fantastic cathedral from the 1100's and a wall surrounding the entire old town built from 900AD onwards. They are still to this day carrying out archeological diggings at sites in the old town.
Our final leg of the journey saw us travel by train down to London then coach out to Stansted airport and our flight to Kuala Lumpur. I am in the hotel in Kuala Lumpur writing this last update. We have shopped, yet again! for more bargains, you know the usual "knock off" bags and wallets I even got a "genuine" Omega Seamaster watch, best price of the day, best bargain shop in KL, and special price for Aussie man because we are nice people!!!! come in spinner.....anyway it's good fun bargaining and everybody wins. We made it back to the hotel just before the tropical downpour, right on 4:00pm the clouds go black and then torrential rain for the next hour, at least it cools things off. Chris is busy repacking the suitcases, good job we bought some mini scales to weigh them, we are bursting at the seams.
The highlight of today in KL was a "Fish Spa Massage" what the heck is that I hear you say? Well you sit with your feet in a pond filled with tiny fish that suck all the dead skin and bits from your feet and legs. Apparently it's very cleansing!!! it tickles a lot and your feet do feel very clean afterwards.
We have had our last fix of Asian spicy food for lunch, unbelievably good Malaysian curry and all the condiments with icy cold beer all for a super cheap price, back to low carbs and slimming shakes when we get home!!!
Well that's just about it for now, we would like to thank all the family and friends that have looked after us with accommodation, tours and meals and of course good memories. Some family members we haven't seen in long time and some we met for the first time and it felt good to know you are all out there and doing well. We will try to keep in touch more often.
From Chris and Yogi......farewell for now. Love to you all.
