It's 17th September. A Friday night. And we're sat at JFK airport waiting for our flight to London to begin our mamoth journey to NZ. We are bidding farewell to our American adventure and heading for a new one "Down Under". Well. Sort of.
Our journey is taking us on an overnight flight to Heathrow. We then spend 5.5 hours there, enjoying a goodbye brunch with some of our dearest friends, before we set off on a 29-hour journey to Wellington. No one ever said we did things the easy way!
We will land in Wellington at 8am on Monday morning. We have an apartment provided for the first couple of weeks to enable us to find our own rental. We are thinking about taking on a short-term furnished apartment in a fairly central location to start with. We don't anticipate the container with our worldly goods to arrive in Welly before early December. Taking on a short-term let will mean we get the chance to look around and figure out where we want to live long term and establish ourselves a little bit. We'll see how that goes.
It was very sad leaving Maddy behind :( Ian had the task of taking her to our friend's on his own. Annalie is glad she didn't have to face that one. If all goes well, and flights being on time, she will reach NZ at the start of December and we could pick her up from quarantine on 31st December - just in time to see the New Year in as a family ;)
We have also left behind some very dear friends that we have made over the last 2.5 years. The guys from the Fire Department that have made Ian feel like part of the family. The dear friends that Annalie has had some very fun times with and also worked hard with - you know who you are! We love and miss you all.
Other than that there's not much else to update you on. Obviously the photos will begin soon, once we get to NZ. But we've got a long way to go before that happens.
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