Staying cool . . .and I don't mean listening to Dave Brubeck

After yesterday's horrible and oppressive 43 deg heat, with big gusts of wind later (that made the Spirit of Tasmania ship break its moorings crashing into Station Pier Melbourne before drifting off!)...then we were without power, only to have a lovely cool calm 24 deg day today, and we even had some long needed rain, making the garden and grounds so fragrant.

I feel like a bit of a zombie today....really must get stuck into doing something, like the tax.

Lisa Jones wrote on Jan 14^th, 2016 at 9:01am:


And........

We're off to Balmoral Beach.

Byeeeee 

Too hot for plans today.  Staying indoors in the cool is the only thing to do.  I couldn't think of anything worse than being at the beach or amongst crowds.

Marla wrote on Jan 14^th, 2016 at 1:30pm:


I may do (visit destinations you have recommended), but not this time, as we have booked a package holiday with web jet for a bus tour of Canada for 5 days, then a cruise along Alaska. We will hardly be in LA, but only because I want to meet the rellies, a connection, my mum had asked me to try and find them for years, I almost gave up, even after 3 years in ancestry, then it sort of started to happen, and I actually wrote a letter (yes, the kind with a stamp on it) and gave my mobile number, and I received a text message 1 week later to say it was them. I was so excited. Trouble is my mum is 88 this year, and her cousin is 87, I have to make sure I do this before it's too late.
I guess that's the whole reason behind going to CA, but since they live in Whittier, and Disneyland is so close, geez, all that way from lil ole Melbourne Australia, may as well see what all the fuss is about. 

Re: cars, my 2nd cousin I will meet (in his mid 50's now), (we are all friends on facebook now, so we keep score of each other's lives and so forth)...he is in a wheelchair, was in a "automobile accident" I am told, when he was 21. He is paraplegic, and is in a band where he plays guitar and harmonica.....am quite proud of him and his zest for life.

It's a stay behind option I am paying from the web jet package, for an extra $800 to change flights, it's purely just to meet the people we are related to. Since early days, when my mum's father's brother went to the USA, and my family came to Melbourne, losing contact, and you know how it happened why I couldn't locate them......I found it in the ship names to the US....it was a mis-spelling......just one vowel was out of place....and how am I going to tell them, their name is not the correct ancestors name...lolll....

ashlee wrote on Jan 14^th, 2016 at 11:08am:


Its an Alfetta GTV  1979.

Sophia wrote on Jan 14^th, 2016 at 2:18pm:



At this time of year? You do realize it's winter in the northern hemisphere. Friend of mine from college went on a cruise to Alaska and said it was quite breath-taking (being touristy and all) but she did it in the summer when the sun never sets. I was there in 2007 (if memory serves) in the Kenai Peninsula in the dead of winter to witness the northern lights. Have another friend who is a nurse at St. Lawrence Island gawd only knows why anyone would want to live there.



It's smacking beautiful up there but being in -20 (-29C) wasn't much fun. Still want to experience a 24-hour sun summer day up there just to experience it. Southern Cali sucks, a cruise is a much better deal.