Wee Margaret leaves Australia

Wee Margaret was due to leave Australia at 11.59pm on 31st March on a Malaysian Airlines flight via Kuala Lumpur.

I had the week before off work to make sure that she had seen everything (and everyone) she could before she left Australia.

Due to being stung (again) by a wee beastie, she had not been feeling well for the final week, so on the Saturday Maureen and I decided that she would have to "get out of the house and take a few photos to show that she had seen a few things while she was here".

On Saturday we went to see Richard and Margaret at Carindale in the afternoon. The visit was interesting as we apparently drove too fast through the complex when we entered and had the caretakers wife chase us through the complex on a golf cart yelling at us. I am glad I was not on my own as I think I would have given her a piece of my mind as she would not accept my apology and carried on yelling like a woman on speed.... I ended up telling her to "shut up and go away" and I drove to Richard and Margaret's unit thinking "she is going to yell at the wrong person one day and get a black eye".

In the afternoon, we visited Joe and his wife Jeanette at Coorparoo and it was lovely.

In the evening we went to dinner with Elaine and Dennis at Crushers as we had been their with Jimmy so often for dinner it was a very good place to a final dinner with Wee Margaret.

On Sunday, we went to visit Mattie and Eric at Kallangur and Wee Jock (their dog) was very happy to see us all.

On Monday, Maureen and I went to work so Wee Margaret could put the final touch to her packing boxes and have a nap before her long flight that night.

At 9pm we arrived at the airport ready for Wee Margaret's flight. We were told to take her to the airline desk at 11.45pm so they coudl take her down to the customs hall. T 11.35pm, we were pushing her wheelchair around to the desk when I noticed that the flight departure time had been changed to CANCELLED.

When we got to the desk w2e found out that a part for the plane had to be replaced and that the flight would not be leaving until the next day !!!

It took us nearly an hour to get Wee Margaret's suitcase back and we all went home to wait till the following morning to find out when her flight would be leaving.

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