Given that part of our adventure this year is to take in all the tennis majors I thought I better skip back in time to January 2014 when we went to Melbourne for the Australian Tennis Open. We had a great 4 days at the tennis and saw Roger Federer, Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic, Maria Sharapova, Ana Ivanovic and the like play. We went with Jeffo, Harty, Pete and Kaz – it was a laugh a minute – normally at Steve’s expense : )
We are now in Paris after a great couple of flights. MH130 got us to KL safely and then it was onto MH002 to Paris. MH002 was one of Malaysian Air’s new A380’s – what a plane. The lie flat beds were fantastc and we both managed quite a bit of sleep. It was also a first for Stevie – an alcohol free flight! He went straight to sleep and they didn’t serve champagne with breakfast – obviously still under Malaysian control because I am sure the French would have!
We took the Air France bus to Orly airport where we are staying at the Hilton before flying to Lisbon in Portugal early tomorrow morning.
I hope this plane doesn’t take any detours into the Indian Ocean. Saw the pilots checking in & was tempted to have a word!
After a busy morning picking Mum up from the bus, having breakfast with her & then dropping her at the domestic terminal we are finally all checked in & ready to go.
The Taylor family minus Preston dropped us at the airport. Preston wrote us a lovely card though telling us to keep calm & think cool!
Relaxing in the lounge waiting to board our flight – it’s finally happening : )
On Sunday the gym girls put on a long lunch under the trees at Vicky & Hira’s – what a magical afternoon. The very talented gym girls put together a song & dance using classic Abba songs & some very classic moves!
It was a fabulous afternoon – more wonderful memories created. Will miss you all very much x
We were never going to be able to leave Auckland quietly!
We flew to Auckland early on Friday the 11th April for the Business Like NZ farewell party. Rachel D had kept it a surprise so there was much anticipation. Normally it was me organising the surprise events so it was interesting with the boot being on the other foot.
We were being picked up at 8:45am – being picked up was another interesting twist. The Siminovich Olive Estate / Bracu van turned up so we then knew where we were heading.
Thirty minutes later we arrived in Bombay South of Auckland and were driven down to the activities area. Archery, BB guns, knife throwing & clay bird shooting awaited us.
We then had a delicious degustation lunch. The team presented Steve & I with survival kits. Mine had some duct tape in it – it might keep Steve quiet – yeah right!
Steve also got given a lovely hand beaten copper bowl – now taking pride of place on our coffee table. I got a Thomas Sabo charm bracelet with a charm from each of the team that meant something. Very special & will be worn with fond memories while I am away.
An awesome day.
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