... of our Mandi, it seems! Earlier today, we got an updated e-mail from a friend saying that Mandi's departure date was moved forward from after Christmas to mid-December. An hour ago, I got an SMS from Mandi, saying that the date had come forward again; this time to a week from now!

I called Vickie (she's at work), who'd just got off the phone with Mandi - it turns out that her employers-to-be couldn't get her on the originally promised flights, so they kept looking for earlier bookings.

If this keeps up, tomorrow Mandi will have already left two weeks ago...