An update

Hello again, its been a long time. Time for an update on what Iv been up to aver the last few weeks.

So 2 weeks ago my Grany moved to Thailand. Yep, you read that right. My 85 year old Grandmother just moved to Thailand (with my Aunt etc, but still). Should prove to be one hell of an adventure. M&D and Jenny came up to take her to the air port, and to clear out her house so myself and Joni went along to pitch in. I'll be totally honest, in the run up to this I was seriously worried. Whenever my family gathers to do something important like this what normally happens is, well as my Dad so wonderfully put it "a case of too many chiefs and not enough Indians."

But actually, it went rather well. It helped that there wasn't a huge amount to do and we had loads of time. It also helped that Dad and Granny went to the airport at Saturday lunch time, leaving the four of us to finish off (we were in the pub by 5pm). It all got very sad when they left, but I insist on keeping a smile on about these things. I'm just getting excited about my trip to visit her and the rest of the family (summer 2012 me thinks!!).

Post-packing Dad treated us to dinner and a night in a very nice hotel. It was lovely, the bedrooms were massive and it was all roaring fires and leather sofas. The food was amazing and I, for one, got just a little bit drunk on pre-dinner G&Ts. Lovely as it was, I have to say the staff were a little useless. The restaurant manager was fabulous - really very funny and helpful, but the bar girls were just a bit crap. I can suddenly see what my sister is in such high demand as a waitress, as she actually cares about good service. I had to wonder around the entire downstairs of the hotel to find a bar, and then the woman expected me to carry 4 drinks back across the hotel to the lounge area. Not impressed. Also, she was apparently very ungracious when Jenny went to point out she had made her "white wine and soda" with lemonade. Tut Tut Tut.

Overall a surprisingly enjoyable weekend.

P.S Just got an A-Mazing new phone! Looking forward to perhaps blogging on that soon, so I might start blogging more often.