Gold Coast Day 4-10 - It's all a bit of a blur

Wednesday, 27 April 2022

We are now just one night away from being able to fly home.  It's been a long, weird, fun, boring, frustrating, disappointing, expensive & memorable time being isolated together with friends at the Oceana on the Gold Coast.

Over the last week we've entertained ourselves with endless movies, puzzles, eating and the kids have done lots of crafts. 

First they spent a day painting by numbers:

The results actually fit in quite well with the apartments' decor. 

Then they moved onto something called GemCraft - sort of a plastic embroidery I guess. These projects actually took a few days, and we all ended up chipping in to get Jett's finished. 

Now they are working on embroideries:

The craft has been interspersed with various puzzles:

and we've had plenty of opportunities to work through all the leftover food items from other holidayers.

A few days ago we moved apartments from level 2 in one building (where we could hear the happy and annoying laughter of the families in the pools outside), to level 8 of a different building - it was nice having a change and the view definitely improved:

We can't really complain about the spacious living conditions, and it's certainly been a treat to have friends around, but we've all had moments of feeling like this: 

and this: 

Yesterday I logged onto work to try to do 2 full days before we fly home tomorrow - unfortunately it was too hard and after a few hours I gave up and applied for 2 days sick leave instead. It was simply too stressful and hard trying to work on my laptop, particularly when I wasn't feeling very well at all.  

So tomorrow we'll pack up and make our way home.  There is only us, one other family and one abandoned teenager (Niko) remaining as all the others have escaped at various times during the week - either to fly home as their close contact time expired, or to get out before they too tested positive, or to local friends who have already had covid.