Saturday, May 26, 2007

Suitcase Day


We declared today “Suitcase Day” and took a holiday from school, in honour of the arrival of a suitcase of gifts. It’s been a busy and exciting day! We were all ready and waiting from about 8 am, so that when the foghorn sounded at about 8.30 we could leave straight away. Even so, there was a long wait until the passengers started coming through. Dave and Colleen were on the second busload, coming out of customs at about 9.30. We recognized them from the photo, and Nick remembered Dave from Honeyridge. We stood at the customs gate chatting while we waited for the luggage to be offloaded. After a long wait and no luggage, they decided to let their host take them to town to get the car insurance and drivers’ licence sorted out, and by the time they were back the suitcases were ready. They took their two and we took ours. It was Christmas in May again, second year running, for us! The boys are well set up for clothing now for this winter and next, as it’s so difficult buying clothes for them here. For lunch we decided to go to Sally’s and then Castle Gardens with our take-aways, and then went to the post office on the way back, where we collected a box from my parents. The contents of the box was so exciting, with all manner of scrapbooking goodies and bits and pieces of things requested and things which were surprises.

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