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New Arrivals (and the 100th blog entry!)Posted on Monday 25 February 2008 at 07:26 - Post CommentWow! The surreal feeling has been with us since yesterday at 2.30pm. Why? Well we picked up T's sister, her hubby and 2 kids at ChCh airport at spot on 2.30, and they're not here for a holiday - they're here to stay!
After 13 months of web cams, phone calls and MSN messaging they are actually here with us. Driving along with the entire family in the car is proving to be the oddest experience.
Anyway - they arrived OK after a good series of flights, and the kids were well behaved too. Once we had got back to the ranch (they'll be staying with us for the next few months) we unpacked and settled in, and then K, C and I headed off (leaving T with the nephews - baptism of fire or what?!) to go and see a car they had spotted on Trade Me from the UK. On our return we had pizza and then it was off to bed as we were all nodding - they with the jet lag, T and I with the exhaustion of a 7am start and being flat out non-stop to 9pm. We thought we'd get a good night's kip, but with 2 jet lagged kids in the house it was 10.30pm, 1am and then 4.30am alarm calls for toilet/ water/ blatant crying. A taste of things to come...? We hope not! Thank goodness we spent the previous day completing a sound insulated stud wall with super internal sound insulation between the landing below and our bedroom - if it wasn't for that we'd have been up ALL night. Still, we'll soon get used to sharing our house with others and it's just been so great having some family who actually KNOW us here, and not 12000 miles away.
So, today I took T to work so that we had the car for the day and I played taxi driver as K, C and the boys went to look at cars, get bank accounts opened, and basically start on the foundations of their new lives here in ChCh NZ. We got back for 2pm and T managed to get a bit of time off work so I took over babysitting duties and looked after the boys, and T went with K & C to look at houses. To be honest, I absolutely LOVED being uncle A. The boys, though obviously shattered, kept their cool and we all went to feed the ducks and take a walk in the beautiful 25 degree weather we've had the past couple of days. 3 hours later and we're just relaxing to watch 'The Incredibles' and then the troops returned and we have just now put the boys to bed and finished clearing up after tea (Kiwi BBQ of course - yum!).
Tomorrow we will be doing some more of the same, and hopefully securing a car for the new arrivals. Then it'll be time to take in a bit of the scenery and check out a bit more of what Canterbury has to offer.
For me, I am just loving having a few days off work
Oh, and HOORAH! for the 100th blog entry. Just over a year and we've done an average of a blog every 4 days (or so my calculations tell me). I'm amazed we've made it a year, let alone got 100 entries in so happy 100th to us
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