Hi Bloggers, it has been a while since I made notes of my life in retirement and I haven't wasted any of it. I week ago I came back off holiday with my Husband, we had 2 glorious weeks in Bournemouth. The weather was hot every day and it was the best and the luckiest holiday we have ever had.
We went away on the 20 June and on the 22nd June we had a bit of bad luck, my husband lost his wallet and although we retraced our steps we had to face reality that it was lost for good.
My Husband moped around a bit on that day and I told him that unless he came to terms with the fact that it was lost for good, it could spoil our our holiday. So he snapped out of it and we decided to go down to the beach area in the evening, we would have a meal and a few drinks and enjoy ourselves. After our meal we started looking round for a bar to have a drink and we happened on the B.I.C ( Bournemouth International Centre). They were having the Stage show of The War of The Worlds, we heard the tanoy announcement that the performance was ready to start. We thought we would go and see what it was all about, we entered the foyer and just looking round when we was approached by a B.I.C official. He said are you going to see the show because it was about to start, I said we was only looking around and hadn't come to see the show. He asked if we would like to see the show and I said we would love to, he then produced 2 tickets for seats at £41.50 each and he said enjoy the show on me.
Wow I could not believe it, we had to rush to our seats before it started and I must say that I have never experienced anything so good. The realistic sounds of the action as the show began the Orchestra, the special effects it was fantastic. When the show was over we went back to find the official to thank him and we told him of the lost wallet earlier in the day. He said he was glad it was us he gave the tickets to and wished us luck for the rest of our holiday.
We were so chilled out after the show we couldn't believe our luck and I knew then we could put the bad luck behind us. I had been right because on the very next day my husband's mobile phone rang and it was a Lady saying she had found his wallet and all the money was still in it. We met up with her and offered her a reward but she wouldn't take it, we were lost for words and couldn't thank the Lady enough. We could now get on with our holiday and so we started planning our days with boat trips, sight seeing and enjoying the hot sunshine every day. On the Wednesday of the second week we bought our usual 2 lottery tickets with numbers we have had for quite a while, we have had the odd ticket with 3 or 4 numbers on over the last couple of years. Later that night we checked the numbers and couldn't believe it, 4 numbers came out on one ticket and 5 numbers came out on the second ticket. We was absolutely bowled over, it more that paid for the holiday we had just had and left plenty to spare for our Son's 40th birthday party which was on the Saturday after we arrived back. We can also afford another week away later in the year, to think that at the beginning of our holiday it started with bad luck and it changed to 3 lots of good luck.
