DAY TWO - QUARANTINE IN AUSTRALIA

 Good Morning.

I have this picture to start the day off:

ABOVE:  I've worked out that's approximately where my room is.  I'm in the heart of the city, very busy and bustling.  Such a shame I can't get out and look around.

ABOVE:  That is a HUGE new building being constructed right opposite the hotel I'm in. 

ABOVE:  It's interesting watching the guys working on it.... they look like little flouro ants!  Man they must have an amazing head for heights!

Now, as I mentioned yesterday, I moved some furniture in the room.

ABOVE:  So, in the original set up, this writing desk was out from the wall, and you sat with your back to the window.

ABOVE:  The first thing I did was shove it up against the far wall... so that I could look out the window while sitting at the computer.

ABOVE: The next adjustment was to move the bed much closer to the window, so there was more 'room' to move and walk around.

ABOVE: now there is a big area in the 'middle' of the room for walking and exercising.

ABOVE:  Before I moved shit, it only took 10 steps from the door to the writing desk.  Now, I can walk forward, take a swing to the left, loop around and continue to the far wall and it takes me 20 steps!

So 40 steps to go from the door, to the other end of the room, and back.  I'm happy with that.

I'm also going to be doing self weight exercises... god help my knees!  And arms.  Pressing against the wall (like a push up, only standing up).  And lunges, squats, sit ups (fook, only joking about the sit ups!). 😋😂😆 

I have checked out Leslie Sansome's workout videos.  There's heaps to choose from, so will certainly be doing some, and in fact I did one yesterday.

I'm in for a real treat today.  I get my first Covid-19 test!  I have to be tested on Day 2 and Day 10. I'm pretty sure I ain't got it, but any International travel is risky, so I'm only too happy to get tested, be cleared, and after Quarantine, head off to Mum's.

I don't know when they will be testing me, anytime between 9 and 4. So, a big window.

I am going to use this today:

ABOVE:  Yep, my room has a bath! (also has a shower)  I bought two bath bombs and a bubble bath block with me.  I might indulge once I've had my Covid-19 test.  I wish now I'd bought more, but wasn't sure there would be a bath.  I will get more once I'm in Coffs Harbour.

Mum has a bath.

ONWARD... 

ABOVE:  I may be stuck in a room on my own for two weeks, with only Covid tests to look forward to (and human interaction)... but I've decided not to let myself become a sloth.

So, the face went on today.  

I'm not going to fall apart at the seams and go all feral!  😂😆😉

And, it's 7.27 am.  No breakfast yet, they don't deliver it until between 8-9 am.  So, I just booked my flight to Coffs Harbour!

One step closer.

I get out of here on Sept. 22nd, but will stay one more night as flights don't work out time wise with my 'release'.

I'll either stay here for one more night or get a motel room closer to the airport.  My flight is at 11.15 am... so I should be at Mum and Ron's by early afternoon.

7.45 am: BREAKFAST!

ABOVE:  Yeah!  I'm so much happier with this meal.  I'm not a huge fan of Greek Yogurt but hell... I might even eat it later for a snack.

Loving the bananas... they are not yet ripe, just how I like them.

This meal gets a happy, healthy 9/10.  It loses a point for the tea and coffee thingees!  Ikkk. 😉

I just got another duck in the row.

When I get released from this hotel, I am catching a taxi to a motel which is literally next door to the airport.

That way I don't have to worry about getting across Sydney city in rush hour traffic, on the morning of my flight to Coffs Harbour.

I'm feeling very accomplished! lol

Thank god for my laptop, I can't imagine how flustered I would have got trying to do all this on my phone!  OMG fook that.

10.30 am:  and guess what just turned up? 

 ***SQUEALS***

ABOVE:  My DIET COKE!  I'm safe from dehydration and turning into a prune now!!!

The grapes are lovely too.

I've got a nice little stash of fruit and stuff building up.

NEXT ...  10.42 am:  And the nurses arrived to do my very first Covid-19 test.

They swabbed the back of my throat and BOTH bloody nostrils!  OMG was not fun at all.

I gagged with the throat one, and up the nose?  

Certainly uncomfortable, but worth it for the freedom it will give me in 12 days.

11.45 am:  Lunch arrived.

After talking to the catering company last night, I was sure lunch would be 'diabetic friendly'...

ABOVE:  It is clearly stated on my food bag eh?

ABOVE:  A cup of noodle soup with THREE tiny pieces of chicken, ONE piece of broccoli and a few little pieces of seaweed?  OH!  I just saw some corn in there too!  If I could be bothered I'd count the kernels... there looks to be about SIX.

And the bread roll?  Really thick BREAD.   I don't mind bread now and then, but not for every meal. 

And don't even get me started on the damn water, I asked them NOT to give me friggin water, it's just gunna be thrown in the bin, along with all those damn noodles.

I am really disappointed.  The bread roll will probably become my dinner.  I'm gunna save it for then, in case Dinner is utter shit again.

So, today's lunch gets a disappointing 4/10.

I am now going to watch a movie on Netflix.

Oh and I had a lovely chat with me Mum just before lunch arrived too.  She's doing good today, and is looking forward to seeing the girls ... the baby again. 

2.30 pm:  And I've just had a lovely video chat with Mum and family visiting her, got to see baby Ardie too.  He's damn cute.

Then I chatted with Lacy, then Brylee.

KNOCK on the door.  Bit too early to be dinner.  I opened me door to a puzzle page on the little table, and this:

ABOVE:  The cutest little cupcake from the hotel!  I ate it.  It's not going to ruin my appetite for (god help me)...  dinner. 

AND NOW... I'm gunna have that long awaited bubble bath.

5.03 pm:  Well my bubble bath was WONDERFUL.  I'm now watching Coronation Street... BLISS.

No dinner arrival yet.  I'm prepared to be surprised... OR NOT.

I just got a phone call from management here in the hotel, inquiring how I was finding my stay, was I lonely, how is the food?  LOL.   So I told her what was happening, how I'm being given far too many carbs and am starting to actually get hungry!

So she said she was going to talk to 'someone' and would get back to me.

Wow.  I might just end up getting heaps of salads, which I would LOVE.

Dinner arrived at 7 pm.  By then I was actually very hungry and thinking about eating the bread roll from lunch!

ABOVE:  This was dinner!  Way too much food... I think they were over compensating.  But... I ate the meat dish and half those veges.

The yogurt and fruit will be for snacks tomorrow or the next day.

The meat dish was a chicken curry, fairly HOT, but as I was really hungry I ate it all!  And as it wasn't over rice, I think I got way more than what would have normally been given.

I'm giving this dinner a firm 10/10.  Very thankful to finally have a good dinner.

And now I shall wrap up my day.