It Was A Sad Day,

it was time for Diana's family to return to the Philippines,

 the minivan arrived promptly at 06.00 and we were on our way,

 the sun still low in the sky,

 we soon arrived at the airport, the traffic really light,

 unloaded form the minivan,

 it was into the queue to check in,

 Diana and older sister Lyn,

then a slight problem, in my air travels I have seen hundreds of these bags being put on aircraft and watched as so many went around on carousels as they complete their journey, I am sure you too will have seen them if you travel out here at airports and bus stations, but now they are not allowed on-board aircraft in the hold, at least not on Cebu Pacific aircraft,

unless they are shrink wrapped, so a new experience for us as we had it wrapped in one of these machines, I wonder what would have happened to travellers who arrived at the airport with one of these bags before the shrink wrapping machines were here?

 all booked in and ready to fly,

 a final farewell and they were off to immigration, we all had a great holiday, it all went past so quickly, but time does fly when you are having fun,

the journey home took forever, for some reason the traffic was almost at a standstill for mile after mile, as the traffic jam started I decided to listen to Red Dwarf, a BBC television show that also has episodes for the radio that I have on my telephone, this the last one titled Back to Reality, I listened to all 6 episodes at 36 minutes each, and we were still not out of the traffic-jam! arriving home, eventually, one of the cactus had flowered,

 and nice it looked too,

we had sort of lost all track of time, it seemed like we had just settled down to have a coffee when we had a telephone call to say Diana's family had landed safe and sound in Manila after their 3 hour flight, they almost beat us home!

 Mick called in for a coffee and a chat, then after he left time for our evening meal, next feet up for the whole evening of watching Boardwalk Empire, the second series, gripping it was too, by now it was just after midnight so for us we were off to bed.