We’re coming home

The journey home begins...all too smoothly perhaps, with the Mary Poppina like packing of the rental car with our additional passenger and suitcase. Perfect timing for a smooth check in....until we discovered that somehow, in the process of changing M’s tickets to get him home for his interview, his flight home from Australia had been cancelled. So it is with a wry smile that us girls once again board a long haul flight without him. We decided against the $8000 Aus dollar price tag for bringing him with us and instead left him with a ticket for the non stop flight from Perth to Heathrow tomorrow. He’s on standby for the flight today, which would ironically get him in to the U.K. 90mins before us!

This job interview certainly has to be up there in the ranks of most expensive interview travel costs! Thank goodness he got the job!

It’s been a whirlwind since M arrived 2 weeks ago with non stop playing for the girls, lots of fun sightseeing and a week in a beautiful beachside holiday house in the Margaret River region with our ever welcoming friends. No mean feat having another family staying in your home for 3 weeks and to still part on good terms. It will be a year or two until we see them again, safe in the knowledge that we’ll all just pick up where we left off.

The highlights; paddling with stingrays, quokka selfies, drinking water from taps, exploring ancient caves, tasting a large variety of grape products, hot showers, feeding kangaroos, eating kangaroos, hours of life reflections with a great friend, continuous electricity & WiFi, cards against humanity, Easter eggs & ice-creams, trying out the Australian tooth fairy, exploring a beautiful coastline......

What’s not to love about the climate, the lifestyle, the people.....WA has it all, especially with the added frisson of redback spiders in the shed, poisonous snakes in the sand dunes and the chance of a nibble from a passing great white shark!

We’ve had a wonderful time and though Africa now feels like a distant dream we’re all ready to make the shift into the new adventure of coming home.

See you soon!