San Diego and Going Home
Now it's my turn to get sick. I knew
when I woke up in the morning that I wasn't feeling too great but
hoped it would subside. We made the 3 ½ hour trip to San Diego and I
slept most of the way. I was really excited to visit the Mormon
Battalion Museum but by the time we got there I was barely able to
walk so Aarahi took the kids and I stayed in the car and tried to
sleep. The kids loved it, and got to mine for gold. I REALLY wish I
wasn't sick because there was so much we wanted to do, however we
headed straight for the hotel where I promptly vomited as soon as we
walked in the door. It was a rough night.
The next morning I was feeling better
and feeling very grateful since we were flying home later that night.
We spent the morning shopping at another huge book store and spending
the rest of our cash on American candy.
Auron had seen a really neat place he
wanted to visit where they made cookie and ice cream sandwiches.
Everyone loved them and we all thanked Auron for telling us about
such an awesome place. Auron always finds really awesome places for us to visit. He see's them on YouTube then writes them down for us to look at.
Late afternoon we got back in the car
and headed towards LA. We stopped off at the Los Angeles Temple to
kill some time. It looks like the NZ temple only wider. There was a couple there doing engagement photos....it looked a little more than G rated lol we tooted at them as we drove past.
Our last meal in America was revolting.
So revolting that we couldn’t even eat it.
When we dropped off the rental car they
were so efficient it was so quick that I wasn't prepared to say
goodbye to our car. It's so lame how attached you can get to
something in such a short amount of time. But they just took it away
before I could even come to terms with what was happening! Our
holiday was finally over.
We had some bag reorganising to do at
the airport as one of our bags was close to 40kg over the limit. The flight
home was long and uncomfortable. The kids did well but it still
wasn't fun. Ammon accidentally wiped the itunes library on the ipad
just before take off and he could no longer watch his beloved PJ
Masks. We were so happy to finally get back to our pig sty of a
house. For the next few days we recovered from jet lag. Often waking
up at 3-4am. The next week had us trying to unpack which we still
haven't fully completed. Time to face reality again!
So what is next?
It was an incredible adventure and I am
so grateful that I got to do it with my favourite people. It was not
cheap, it was a lot of planning and stress especially buying and
building a house at the same time. It is not easy taking 3 kids on a
big overseas holiday especially while pregnant but oh my goodness it
was worth it a million times over! I am so thankful and blessed that
we are able to amazing things like this and to take our kids along on
our adventures. We know most people wont get to experience many of
these things in their life time and we don't take these experiences
for granted.
So where to now? Right now we are
getting ready to welcome our new baby in a couple of weeks. (should start getting a bit more organised!) We are trying to decide on where to go next year, we are tossing up between Vanuatu, Fiji and Samoa or somewhere more local. We are planning to be home in New Zealand for Christmas next year or around then anyway. After that we have big plans for Queensland,
Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore and Bali in 2019.
Now that we have our own house and have
finished baby making we are ready to take on something new so who
knows where that will take us in the next 5 years. There is a whole
wide world we want to explore and we are ready and waiting to take it on....as well as doing all the normal things like paying the mortgage and cooking dinner etc
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| Brownie, cookie dough icecream, dipped in M &M's |
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| Choc chip cookie, monster icecream, dipped in M & M's |
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