Friday, December 19, 2008

20 December - Home Sweet Home

We’re baack. Apologies for it taking me so long to write my final installment but I think I have only gotten over the jet lag/time difference in the last few days. Its funny isn’t it how when you first go on holiday the adventure seems to stretch on forever and then before you know it you’re home again wondering if it actually happened! To say it wasn’t fabulous would be a lie as would saying it wasn’t hard work but sitting here now looking back on it all the hard bits seem to have dissolved into funny little anecdotes while the good times loom large. The boys did fantastically well on the never ending journey home the reward for which being they got to see David Beckham at Auckland airport. Who? Is pretty much what the boys said when told of the superstar’s arrival - oh well I now have a very grainy shot of Becks to add to the photo album.

I think the whole getting back to reality has been softened by the fact that we have moved into a new albeit temporary rented home. It’s next door to Mum and Dads in Oxford with lots of room for the boys to run round and we have had Sky put in for those wet days, of which they are plentiful at the mo. I am raising my eyes heaven ward and saying a silent thank you for Playhouse Disney. Josh is still muttering about wanting to learn Spanish which would be quite something but we will see. Dan is chuffed to be home and amongst his faithful friends, Thomas, Douglas, Bill, Ben and Annie and Clarabell his faithful friends. Paul has eased back into the whole work thing and is pleased he can have a couple more days off next week for Christmas. Speaking of which MERRY CHRISTMAS x