Today I finally got to go to a Bill Rogers seminar. I was scheduled to go last year but ill health co-coincided with the seminar date!
I got up at 5am and left at 6am as the seminar was in Wollongong. On Thursday, Sue at work told me to be careful to take the correct exit or I would end up on the Macquarie Pass Road (Eeeew!). So I plugged the address into the GPS and set off. All was going well, the GPS told me to turn off, but I knew I shouldn't turn at the first exit, it told me to turn again...hmmm still didn't feel right! I fiddled a little with the display and found that if I didn't turn soon, I would be miles away from where I had to go. So I took the next turn off. It didn't take long to realise that I had mad the wrong choice but I plugged on. The roads were about 1.5 cars wide and the speed limit was 60-80kms! THEN I came up behind a B-double truck ON THE MACQUARIE PASS! I followed it through the 25-35km bends, by the time I got to the bottom my brakes were quite smelly, but I was nearly there! I drove up the road as the GPS told me to, only to find that the GPS had interpreted 61 Church St Wollongong, as 61 Church St somewhere in the Wollongong Area and dropped me at Albion Park! It was 9am (course started at 9!) and I was still 25 km away!
At this point I just wanted to get there...so on I went. I ended up walking in at 9.30 but was preoccupied with the ridiculousness of the events getting me there (3.5hours to Wollongong!)
I settled and got into the course, there was so much info and my brain got pretty full around 2.30. When we finished, I stopped for petrol and headed home. I left Wollongong at 5.10, and drove into Kambah at 7.40-a much better trip time! I had spoken to Rowie before I left Wolllongong and she asked if I wanted to go shopping, so instead of going home, I dropped in and picked her up and headed to Belconnen, finally getting home at around 10.40pm. I went to bed around 11.30 this making it a VERY long day indeed!
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