New Shoes

Well here they are, the bridesmaidey shoes! I can only hope that they're the same ones as Claire has bought, after me having legged it to Harrogate to get them today!
They're certainly very nice! I just hope they match Claire's!
It's a pity we didn't get our act together a bit quicker as they also come in silver and they'd look great with Les's dress. I wonder if LK Bennett is in Sydney? They're called 'FOXY' so if you are reading this Les, then got over to LKB! Anyway, I love them! Hopefully I'll be able to walk in them all day. I'll be bringing my 'party feet' with me anyway, and failing that, by 10pm I'll be in my flip flops!

I've had a lovely day today. Manicure and pedicure for the wedding; sparkley fingers and black glisteny toes! (Diamante bits as well!) Getting pretty excited now. ONE MORE DAY to go. I was talking with a lady in the beauty salon who has flown with UAE
and who says they're very good!

So on the to do list; all the washing is done, just a couple of bits to be picked up from Sainsblobs tomorrow - some jewellery for the bridesmaids to wear, and a prezzy or 2 for the various people we're going to be staying with. In addition, I think my dodgily acquired Ventolins have arrived at the post office - not too dogy but purhased without a prescription - from t'internet, which is good news as wheezing bridesmaids are never an attractive thing!

I may blog again tomorrow but if not then the next one will be from Dubai airport on Wednesday morning - we arrive at about 3am UK time.

I woke up this morning and thought....

.....ughhhh work? And then my head cleared and I had the most brilliant thought ever....I don't have to think 'ughhhh work' for the next 4 weeks!

Apologies if you're reading this as a distraction from your working day - I'm not usually a gloater!

Anyway, the pre-holiday preprations are warming up - today has been a day of ironing, panicing over where the tickets/credit cards/passports are, and activating our new SIM card; see contact details ------>

A few last bits to be picked up tomorrow & then a nice day of packing!

Last day in work!

I can't believe it's really here! You look forward to something for so long that the 'looking forward' is the reality and you forget that the event itself is actually approaching! The last few 'big' holidays (and some of the not so big ones) there has been so much to do, work wise, and at home, that I've ended up working 'till really late on the last few days before going away; and a couple of times this has resulted in me doing my passing out trick on the plane! Not a really good way to start the holiday. This time we decided to take a day or 2 off before actually leaving the country so that I don't collapse in a heap on the way. Sod's law dictates that *this* time though, the pressure isn't so intense, and I'm not actually in the middle of anything, and don't have too much handover to do. So, a nice steady day, a clean handover, and a nice night out with a couple of the sisters-in-law & their families to get the holiday season underway!