3200 Qantas Frequent Flyer Points in 24 hours

Just a little update - I'm working in Western Australia now; on a gold-mine expansion project 2hrs drive SSE from Perth. It's in the middle of nowhere, and gets quite cold at nights - as cold as -3 degrees!


I fly back to Melbourne every 4th weekend for R&R. This weekend just passed was my July R&R, and so, for those who are wondering why I'm still in Melb... my last few days looked like this:

• Thu 24/07/2008 11:30pm (WST) - scheduled departure from PER airport

• Fri 25/07/2008 12:00am - actual departure
• Fri 25/07/2008 5:00am (EST) - arrival at MEL airport, took chauffeured taxi home
• Fri 25/07/2008 6:00am - arrived home, went to sleep
• Fri 25/07/2008 10:00am - watched "Children of the Silk Road" with Mum (great movie!)

• Sat 26/07/2008 - went to church, celebrated my 25th... woo!

• Sun 27/07/2008 - brunch, lunch - heaps of catch ups, dinner with Steph's family
  

• Mon 28/07/2008 10:00am – chauffeured taxi to airport
• Mon 28/07/2008 12:30pm - departed for Perth
• Mon 28/07/2008 2:30pm (WST) - arrived in Perth.... now get this: 3 voicemails on my phone. They wanted me in the Melb office urgently to do some work for a couple of weeks
  
• Mon 28/07/2008 4:00pm - arrived in Perth office, got the admin assistant to organise a hotel room for the night and flight back the next day (I need rest - no way I was flying immediately!)
• Mon 28/07/2008 5:30pm - hotel and flights confirmed
• Mon 28/07/2008 6:30pm - checked into hotel
• Mon 28/07/2008 8:30pm - dinner with Andrew, Vianny, Like, Daniel
• Mon 28/07/2008 10:30pm - back to hotel, heaps of email, sleep

• Tue 29/07/2008 4:30am - woke up, got ready, went to PER airport
• Tue 29/07/2008 5:15am - got to the check in desk, found that the travel agent booked, but did not issue the ticket!
• Tue 29/07/2008 5:45am - called the travel agent's emergency number, got the ticket issued, checked in
• Tue 29/07/2008 6:10am - scheduled departure from PER airport
• Tue 29/07/2008 7:30am - actual departure
• Tue 29/07/2008 12:30pm (EST) - arrived at MEL airport
• Tue 29/07/2008 1:30pm - arrived at Melb office (hehe - got a hire car), got briefed on what to do, got a workstation organised, started working, etc.

Nice.