Oh dear, they might before we go away everyone decides that they're sick. We all went to dinner with Peter and Mary, it took them ages to bring out the kids meals. They brought out the adults meals first and then 10 minutes later the kids. By this stage Theo was so tired he didn't really want to eat the poor little fella, he's usually such a great eater too.
We got home and got everyone to bed. At about 10pm Theo started crying his little lungs out, which is very unlike him. But the cold he has is really giving him a lot of grief. After a lot of hugs and cuddles and some milk to fill his hungry little tummy up he went back to sleep about 11:30 or so. Just in time for Beth to wake up at about 12:40am or so, totally panicking because her cold was stopping her from being able to breathe properly. It was scaring both of us too, so Sarah jumped in the car with her and off they went to the A&E. Turns out it was just croup, which while not nice at all isn't super life threatening.
Thankfully once she returned home she went back to sleep OK and both Sarah and I got at least 4 hours sleep before we had to get up, grab our bags, give Granny a kiss goodbye and zip off in the organised transport (Thanks very much Peter!)
We boarded our plane and flew up to Auckland, walked over from domestic to International and waited around the three hours to get on our Bali plane. When we first got to the gate lounge we thought it was a pretty quiet flight, but once it was time to board it was obvious it was going to be a full flight.
It was a pretty uneventful flight, what was interesting was they announced early on that this was a "heavy drinking" flight, and to be please be patient and also try not to get too boozed! Not the usual sort of announcement you'd expect on a plane, I guess they must have problems with people so excited their on holiday and forgetting it's a 9 hour flight and getting mega boozed. Anyway neither of us got mega boozed. After a long 9 hours we made it to Bali and then had another hour or so of getting through immigration and then a tedious wait for our bags. Apparently they X-ray them all intensively as they come straight off the plane. Can't imagine why that is...
We found our driver quickly and off we headed. The first thing we noticed is how much like Thailand (Sarah says Cambodia) it is. The same sort of buildings, infrastructure and traffic. The other thing we noticed was heaps kites in the air, still haven't looked up what this is about yet.
After about an hour in the transport we made it to our accommodation, which is simply amazing. There's a huge living room and a massive bedroom. Outside toilet, shower and bath and a private pool in the front. As well as a massive pool in the common area. It's really lovely.
By the time we got here we were both pretty knackered, the time difference doesn't help. It was midnight back home but only 8pm here.
Which of course means we both woke up this morning at 5am. A bit annoying because we'd booked breakfast for 9am.
Anyway the rest of this diary will be catching up on the previous few weeks where I haven't gotten around to writing anything.
It's been a busy few weeks for everyone, trying to get all the work out of the way before coming on holiday. Granny arrived on Tuesday night, much to Beth's intense excitement. She held up the sign she'd made with Sarah when Granny's plane arrived, to many oohs and aahs from the other people waiting at the airport. Granny ran off the plane and hugged Beth for about 5 minutes before remembering her number one Son and saying Hi to me as well!
Last weekend was a long weekend which was nice, we didn't do heaps just cleaned up around the house, I cleaned a few more gutters out and washed the outside windows with some Spray and Walk Away. It didn't do the great streak free clean that it promised, but it did an OK job and the windows look a lot better than they did.
Theo did a pretty good job Saturday afternoon at his swimming, still not as confident as he had been a few weeks earlier but a good job nevertheless​. Sunday we all went into town for what we thought was going to be bubble blowing but actually tuned out to be a lot more than that, there was a blow up bouncy castle, face painting and music+dancing. The kids had a great time, Beth really enjoyed the bouncy castle, Theo really enjoyed the bubble blowing. It was a nice morning. We finished up with a trip to subway for some lunch then headed home in the vain hope that they might have a sleep. They didn't.
We are both lying by the pool now and I can't be bothered trying to remember much else.
Tim
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