My first week of Retirement

Today is the first full week, since I stopped working. I can’t say that we had a relaxing time. It was all go at all the time. This is a summary of the past week.

On Thursday we did do another trip out to Lower Chittering with a fully loaded Van. We hoped to get away with one more load on Friday after the settlement was finalized. We also repacked some of the gear that was already in the Container. It was about 4.30 pm by the time we arrived back in Warwick.

The next day we carried on the same as yesterday, loading the Van, cleaning etc. By about 12.30 pm we received the Phone call from the settlement agent telling us everything went as planned and that she was on her way to the Bank. We had about 1 ½ to 2 hours work to do, before we finally closed the back door for the last time.

We had planned to stay for the night in a Motel in Scarborough and relax and wind down from a couple of very hectic months. The Motels name was Sun moon and we only can recommend it. We had planned to go out for dinner, but by the time we were ready, we went for a little walk and had a nice Ice cream and on the way back to the Motel we past Subway and had a bite to eat there.

On Saturday morning we took a detour to Fremantle so we could have a Coffee at Bike Force and catch up with a few people there. The rest of the morning we spent driving around to look for a Laptop for Mark. By the time we eventually got to Mike’s and Bernie it was already late afternoon. We didn’t do any unloading till Sunday morning. Again it was pulling boxes out of the Container and rearranging the storing of the boxes. By the time we finished, it must have been well after lunch and Allan, Corrina and Caleb came up from Ellenbrock for a visit and Caleb wanted to have a ride on his bike.

Monday morning we had to be back in Perth to arrange a few things in the Bank. That went well, but we had to go back on Thursday again to finalize a couple more things. Next was a visit to Medicare and HBF for change of addresses. Telstra was the next stop where we spent about 2 hours sorting some really messy things out. It is quite amazing the different department you speak to about the same problem and how many different answers we got.

Tuesday not much happened other than we had to do another trip back to Perth to see Mickey at Bike Force in South Perth. Jenny and I had planned to go on the Tandem to Bulls Brock and back to start our training. We had the bike serviced about 3 to 4 weeks prior and replaced the chain, tyres and a few more things. Mickey also showed me a few things about adjusting etc. but we never took the bike for a test ride, as we already had our hands full with a lot of other things. So when we tried to start riding the chain was slipping very badly and it was impossible to start riding up hill. Mickey had to order a chain ring set, because nothing in stock was the right part. So we left the Tandem in the good hands of Mickey.

On Wednesday we stayed home and not much got done plus I was coming down with a cold. Just what I needed.