And we are off:)

After a lovely Christmas Day lunch with family, we had a quiet night, finalised packing and we were ready to go.

We still did not have a sleep in 🙁 (Up at 4:30 am as usual) We had breakfast, a bit of a tidy up , packed the car and headed off to the airport at Maroochydore

We hd 2 flights:  Maroochydore to Melbourne then Melbourne to Launceston.

We left on time from the Sunshine Coast. We had a very nice lunch of Turkey with Roast Vege(me) and Chorizo and Olive Pasta with Napoli sauce (M) and of course a glass of bubbles 🙂

Arriving in Melbourne we had a short wait of around an hour and we were off to Launceston.

The flight to Launceston was a short 55 minute “ take off – just enough time for a cup of tea – and land” flight.

At the airport, I decided to beat the queue and get the hire car while M collected our suitcases off the carrousel.  This proved to be a good plan, as by the time I had finished with the Hertz lady there was a long line behind me 🙂

The hire car we have for the trip is a Kia Sportage.  It is nice but not the Mazda CX3 I was hoping for.  Why is it that hire cars advertise a car and you always get the “or similar” option? 🙁

From the airport, we drove to a local Woolworths for “pantry staples” Tea, Coffee, Milk, Bread, eggs etc and made our way to the CountryClub Villas.

We have stayed here before just after CoVid and we decided it was a good top for the first night.  It is close to the airport and is a very short distance to the Country Club Casino resort that has a selection of nice restaurants for our dinner. I

When I had a look at the website to decide which restaurant we might choose, I saw that the “Link Buffet” had their Christmas Buffet available for Boxing Day.

At first I was thinking that the 7:30pm time slot was too late and we would be hungry before that, then I remembered that we are now 1 hour ahead of Qld time, so for us it was only 6:30pm…perfect.

When we were checking in to the Villas, the lady asked us if we had plans for dinner and told us the Casino had a courtesy bus :). Great!! I did not need to drive, so I could have a glass of wine with dinner.

The little bus was ready for us at reception at 7:15 and we were duly delivered for our dinner.  And what  a dinner it was.  We did not go hungry 🙂

Feeling quite full we got the little bus back to our villa, had a cup of tea and pretty much went straight to bed after a big day.

Tomorrow we have a travel day to Sheffield.