Stop. Start. Stop. Start(ing again)

What am I like - not blogging for yonks and then blogging and then not! I have, of course been busy and our old MacBook was not going too well and I have had three VIPs visiting - you get the picture.

My parents arrived a fortnight ago now, after a 14 hour flight from Melbourne. They thought the flight was 'the pants' as they were upgraded to Business Class on Etihad for the flight over here to Abu Dhabi. It took my mum a week to stop gushing about the flight. I pity her friends back home as they'll have to listen to have fabulous it was...lol...

Many weeks back it was organised that my sister was going to come over for a 'surprise' visit from London, enroute to China, whilst my parents were here. I must say MissM is fantastic keeping secrets, not a word was uttered about 'Auntie Kimbofo' coming for a visit. At the last minute MissM and I had to tell my parents as my sister's Dubai flight was delayed by 90 minutes and MrL got lost coming home to Abu Dhabi. They didn't walk in the door until after midnight last Tuesday evening. If MissM and I hadn't said anything they would've gone to bed hours beforehand.

With all the excitement of visitors we have had to get a new computer. Our old one (which is 4 years old) was starting to play up with the mouse pad. With easy justification, MrL went out and bought a new MacBook Pro. If you don't have one of those and are after a new laptop, you'd be mad to buy anything else. We thought our old MacBook was the pants, we were wrong. Our new computer IS the pants. So easy to use, minimal set up, I should go and work for Apple. (My dad too bought over the new 'teeny weeny' Apple TV for us - this allows all our stuff - photos, music, videos, rental movies, our dvds to be shown through our television - it's fabulous!)

The folks are here for another week. It'll be sad when they go but at least life will then go back to normal.