Townsville Trek

Pool Princess

Fun with 3rd Cousin Sarah in her home playground

Lydia & Sarah - best buddies

Kicking back on Nana Small's couch

Hugs with Nana Small

Townsville was good, but tiring.

As you can tell from the photos, Miss Lyddy

had a fantastic adventure, and is still settling

back into her normal weekly routine after all

the excitement.

21st School Reunion was an enjoyable night

(where were you Mr Parigi, Dr Clam & Lexifab?).

We got 45 out of 350 - not a bad strike rate for

21 years.

Drinks & nibbles by the Jupiters Pool, 8-11.

Those with leave passes from spouse & children

continued to kick up their heels until 4am.

Stories already abound of regressive behaviour

with people stuck back in 1987.

Mum, Lydia & I all stayed in a twinned toom at

Jupiters. Mum's deterioriated quite a bit.

She gets worn out after not many steps at all, needs

the walker to go everywhere, and really needs to

have the hip & knees done sooner rather than later.

She's shying away from flying to visit relatives

because they have steps, even when it's big family

celebrations (60th's, weddings)...

...and don't get me started on the house it badly

needs renovations, and is really showing it's age.

Hopefully 3 days with Lydia will provide enough

leverage to her drive to get surgery so she can

start to get some kind of bigger picture for life.

Took a lot of talking, but I got permission for

me, Sylvia and cousin Ellen to get working on

a plan for her to have the surgery & lots of

rehab in Sydney, with whatever additional care

she needs when back in Townsville.

Early 2009 is the plan - fingers crossed...