Friday, 29 July 2011

...and we made it.

Well, 10.45am on Friday July 29, and we are home. Apparently it was -6 overnight, and was still 0 as we were coming in to land - a far cry from the 45+ in the Abu Dhabi desert of 24 hours ago!

Travel home all went well, very well actually. No major airport mishaps, well behaved kids, no accidental Hindu meals (thanks Robyn!). The worst bit was having a delayed flight up to Canberra due to early morning fog. We ended up being queued on the ground for a while, and then suddenly the pilot gunned the engines, swung left and took off. I presume he got permission to do so, but there was a sense of him spotting a gap on the runway, yelling "screw you guys" to the control tower and gunning it.

Anyway, we arrived home to find that Mark (whose wife we bumped into in Sydney having flown in from Dubai this morning) had popped in to turn on the heating, and a suitably neat and tidy house. Aidan, who doesn't believe in the existence of cold, decided he was cold and jumped in the shower. Lauren is so excited to be home that she hasn't stopped singing and dancing since we got within 2km of home, so won't feel the cold for a while yet!

Time to go buy some milk - Justine needs a cuppa.



Location:Curtin, Canberra, Australia

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