Well this is it everyone.
We've packed up the house, spoken to Mum and Nanna, patted the dogs and gave them a scratch on the belly, packed our travel bags and now we are at the airport waiting for the plane to take us away.....
It's been *a lot* of work to get to this point, but we can put our hands on our hearts and say yes we are ready. The last week has been pretty crazy as we had to actually finish packing up our stuff and leave the house for Nicole in some sort of reasonable state. It took 2 trips to the tip (junk), 2 trips to the King of Seconds (electronic junk - $60 total) and 4 trips to St Vincents (clothing junk), not to mention the 4 car loads of stuff that went to Albury Thanks Anne and John!, the 3 boxes of stuff that we shipped to Steve in the UK and the 100 or so boxes that we crammed into the shed.
So that's what we've been doing, basically itemising everything that we own, deciding if it is worth keeping and then trying to look after it for the duration. Of course there's also the never ending handyman jobs at home that saw me putting up 2 shelves for Nicole at 7:20 this morning, and then nicking down to the Hardware shop to buy a rivet gun so I could finish of the guttering we put up last weekend. And then yesterday I had to unblock our stormwater drain as well. All the while Michelle was tirelessly packing packing packing packing. But now we are ready, at the aiport and boarding in 25 minutes.
What a great day!
There's a couple of pretty exciting days ahead of us as tomorrow evening we will be in Siam Reap and then on Saturday we'll be at Angkor Wat - keep posted for the photos and stories of our adventures!
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