A new handbag

I haven't taken a picture of it YET....don't you just LOVE a new handbag ?
I can take months to find just the right one. Sunday was the day !!!!! I see what I want in magazines and wouldn't you know it...the very one you LOVE costs an outrageous amount....so you keep looking every time you go to the mall.....then the right one just pops out at you.....YES !
It's just the right size....bigger than last years.....not too big tho... ( I am easily swamped at 5'3".)
black....part mock croc and part fake leather.....plenty of zips and nooks and crannies that are carefully designed to suit ME. Fake leather is so good these days....very soft and smooth.
I'm not giving it a trial run....just going to pile everything into it the day we fly out !
Two weeks from tomorrow.
We are flying Virgin....VAustralia and apparently we are going to be treated like rock stars ! An upgrade to a seat that turns into a bed would really do it.....not a chance....but Perry says he is going to ask. You don't ask....you don't get...right? Thirteen hours, nailed to the seat for at least eleven of those hours doesn't quite sound like rock star treatment to me. A glass of wine and a sleeping pill with dinner will hopefully send me to sleep for a few hours. Perry can fall asleep on a barbed wire fence....I seem to have to be lying down.....or is that laying down ?
Anyway....we will make it. New handbag and all.

Yes...I am a VERY BIG DOG....wanna make something out of it ?

Have you ever seen anything like this DOG ????? Glad I don't have to clean up after this guy !!! Or buy the food !!!



To Blog or not to Blog.....That is the question.... hmm.....let's see.....
The weather has cooled down. Summer sort of suddenly switches off up here. Doesn't get cold......just feels a lot more mellow, and it stays this way for months and months and MONTHS. LOVE IT !!!!!
We fly out to visit family in less than four weeks. Staying for three weeks and now that Perry is coming too we wish we had planned more carefully and could stay for another week or so. We checked out extending the trip, but the extra cost mounted up to where we thought we will just leave it as it is....will just have to pack in as much as possible....or change plans when we get there if necessary. We arrive around lunch time on Wednesday the 3rd.....off to the river for the first weekend....that is pretty much locked in. I want to visit Christopher's school...hopefully meet his teacher....watch him at football practise. (Glen says he is fearless....as was Glen... I used to watch him play and pray he would finish the game in one piece.) Do some grandmother stuff.....get to know Catherine... who sounds like a lovely lady and maybe get to play a game of bowls at Balboa Park.... Perry played there a few times six years ago.....
The second weekend we can hopefully sort out how to visit Mike, Gayle and as many nieces, nephews and children as possible....then Nancy and family....keep on going to Coleville and visit Jack and Margaret for a couple of days and be back at Glen's around Thursday.
With both of us visiting....Glen wondered if we might prefer to use his motor-home as our mini apartment instead of one of the bedrooms. We agreed that it would be really good ! He will park it up close to the side of his home and hook it up to water and power....that way we will all have privacy!

Airfares are really very reasonable at present....$2400 to L.A., but another $600 to fly down and back to S.D.... rather ridiculous. It's the extras that add up. We use a limo service to get to the airport and back.....an extra $200. Travel insurance, which is an absolute must.....another $600 for the two of us for between 17-24 days. If we change plans, the insurance really jumps, plus another $500 to the airline for altering the itinerary..... Then we will most likely need to rent a car for a week or so. Oh well....it's only money !