Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts

Friday, January 9, 2015

Well a lot's changed since I was last on here!



My poor blog, I didn't realise its been so long since I made a post.

2012 ended up being a very hard year & due to several things that happened I had my depression come back worse than ever. However I did decide that this plus size thing had gone on long enough & I had to get fit & healthy. So that's what I did! It took me one year of healthy eating & walking & hiking & I dropped 65 kg - I surpassed my old weight I was aiming to get back to & am now the healthiest & fittest I've ever been.

On my birthday in 2012 on the left & my birthday 2014 - happy & healthy!

The other exciting thing that happened is in 2014 we travelled to Europe for the first time & as it was our 15th Wedding anniversary, we renewed our vows in Paris - most amazing day ever!



Above are some of our photos form Paris wedding renewal
 
 


My beautiful new wedding/eternity ring

I will try to start making posts about the last 2 years - this was just a little catch up on the MAJOR stuff!










Friday, March 11, 2011

No time to blog till now and several updates

So far this has been a hectic week.  We got to move back into our house on Tuesday and have been constantly unpacking and trying to set the living room and office up again.  I can not believe we have so much stuff and I do not where we used to put it all.  I did a huge throw away when I was packing up and have done some more whilst unpacking.  On the plus side it has been a good chance to re-arrange things and get them just perfect.

  A few other things to update & share with you.

After the bad service and experience we had at Twin Waters, Leigh decided to pen a letter and let them know what happened and why we would not being returning in future. We both are not the sort of people to make complaints but Leigh was quite upset that so many things went wrong on our first trip away in years.  2 days after mailing the letter he received a call from the head of Accor. Apologies were made and he said he had flown up to Twin Waters himself to investigate and make sure several of the staff received training. He also invited us back to the resort as his guest, he wanted us to experience the same package but with the room upgraded to a lagoon suite.  After much reassurance we would find things much better this time, Leigh booked us in for the week of our anniversary in May. 

Kedron -Wavell, the club were I was attacked by the woman smashing a glass in my back at the Belinda Carlisle concert are not doing anything.  I sent a written report of what happened to the operations manager including the fact that security did not even take our names or any kind of report on the evening. I have had to chase this man up for a response and he pretty much just wants me to go away. He has been extremely rude and pretty much called me a liar stating security were there and no such incident happened.  I wrote in the hope that they would like into providing better security and also into removing glassware from the showroom.  I would have been happy with some type of commitment from him to look into these issues and at the least offer me an apology. 

Feeling like I was getting nowhere I did some research and found out that if an incident like this happens on a premises & is reported to liqour & gaming an investigation takes place and they could be classed as a high risk venue (one incident is enough for somewhere to classify as high risk). The result of this is having to remove glassware. I made contact with them and have reported the incident and I have been advised an investigation is underway. I really hope something is done as I would not like anyone else to experience what I did.




Sunday, February 6, 2011

Something good & something funny!

During the flood crisis Leigh and his colleagues racked up about 120 hours that week, as a thank you for all their hard work at keeping the company systems going they were all given a wotif.com voucher.  So that means we spent the past 2 days looking at places online for a mini vacation.  We have not had a getaway in a few years so we decided to go away next weekend and have a long weekend for Valentines day.

We found a great deal on offer at Novotel Twin Waters on the Sunshine Coast

Lagoon view at Twin Waters

We get a king spa room, champagne & chocolates, buffet breakfast each morning and dinner in either the a la carte or buffet restaurant each night.  We stayed there about 14 years ago and it was lovely so we are really looking forward to this break. I can envision lots of time by the pool and a massage at the spa......



Lots of time to be spent by & in this pool



Aerial view of resort



On a funny note when we were unpacking the groceries today Paris was jumping in & out of all the bags like she usually does but then she went quiet for awhile.  We found out why, she had chewed her way through the plastic bag and the wrapping to help herself to a hot cross bun, lucky I saw her or I would think we had mice by the bite marks.

I hope everyone has had a great weekend and that it cools down soon as it sounds like it is not just Brisbane that is sweltering in the heat.


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