Woke up to a perfectly sunny day this morning. Good thing too because we still had a lot of stuff to sort out as we cleaned out the van. Check out time at the Caravan park was 10:00 but we took till almost 11:00 cleaning the van and throwing out stuff. We headed over to Andrew and Jadines place where we left them with the lawn chairs, sleeping bags, foamies, food and everything else that we could not take home with us. We had done a pretty good job of cleaning the van so decided we probably did not have to go to a carwash before returning it. Jadine followed us to the Wicked camper office, which was aboout 15 km north, towards the downtown area. At Wicked they did not even open the doors but just did a quick walk around before giving us the OK on the return. When we got the van it was really dirty and now I can understand why. The only issue they had was the big crack in the front windshield from a rock we picked up about 4 days ago. Dang, we almost made it! I just cannot seem to have any luck with windshields on any continent! I gave them feed back on all of the issues we had with the van like leaky roof, windows that did not roll up properly, o that did not work well, air conditioner leaks etc. They agreed to give us a break on the windshield replacement so we were pleased with that.
After dropping off the van Jadine drove us over to the Prince of Wales hotel that we had booked near the airport. We spent the afternoon doing our final repacking and sorting through our receipts for stuff we would have to claim. Around 6:00 Di and I walked down the street for some pizza then met Jadine and Andrew back at our hotel for a couple drinks and a final farewell visit. The kids headed home around 10:30 and we hit the hay. The hotel is an economy class establishment just a couple of minutes from the airport, small rooms with a shared bathroom down the hall. No complaints from us, it is an upgrade from having to walk across the campground every night!
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