Before we went - a quick belated update

Just a quick update on what happened before we left, and then I will get on to posting about what we have been up to since we have been here!

So before we left, there were:

...leaving do's - lots of them. Work do's, meals out and coffees, leaving do's with friends, leaving do's with family. Most of them nice sedate affairs, including my leaving do with my friends and family in Worksop, and at least one was not quite so sedate. The photos from Darran's leaving do in Stoke can be found at:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=104633&id=794453437&l=287cd17c0b

And there were tears, lots of tears (mine, I should add!).

Then it was time to box and pack everything up. Which nearly resulted in Darran catching the plane on his own. There were a few strong words and strops, it being quite a stressful thing this packing up a life and taking it the other side of the world, and him deciding he couldn't pack boxes......

Still, eventually, and with the help of the professional removals guys, off it all went in the back of a lorry, ready to be loaded onto a container and on to a ship, for us to see sometime in the next three months....

Then it was off for a week away with my parents to Norfolk - a bit of family bonding before the big move, leaving Daz to decorate and titivate the house prior to us handing it back to the landlord.

Then came the last minute goodbyes to those especially close friends and of course, family. Cue more tears. It is so hard to leave such good friends and much loved family behind. And because you are leaving them behind and having to say goodbye, they are even nicer than ever, which makes it all that much harder. Cue even more tears.

And then off to Heathrow to catch a plane to start a new life somewhere else 24 hours later.......

Next installment in our new adventrue to follow very shortly!


Cheryl xx