Doh, would you believe it, we got our laptop and had internet access for a couple of days and then where we were staying lost their internet connection due to some workmen managing to muck it up hehe.
Just over 2 weeks to go now till the house is ours wheeeeeee. I visit Tara weekly as she is heavily pregnant and cant get out much so I go round for a cup of tea and a gossip and we have been round for dinner as well to meet her OH, and they are going to introduce us to some of their friends as well, the couple they bought the house of are still friends of theirs and took them under their wing when they where first in NZ and finding their way about.
My son is settling into school, he still has sad days when thinking about friends/family he has left behind but I am confident that given a few months he will feel well and truly settled, he already loves the kiwi way of kids not having to wear shoes at school hehe.
Here is a really freaky story, before we moved out we where told by my husbands family that my OH mothers, brothers, wife, sisters family had recently moved out to NZ in January, when asked where we where told Whalers gate which is a suburb of NP so we thought what a coincidence and where given their address and thought to look them up at some point. Anyway the first Sunday we where in NP we where out looking at open homes and where in one and talking to the real estate lady who mentioned that another english family where looking as well, that they had a new type house already but wanted to buy something older and do it up, 5 minutes later a family walk in and the lady says oh this is the family I was talking about. We got talking to them as you do and we started chatting and as they said things myself and my OH thought their circumstances sounded familiar and asked if they where related to Val and Eric (my OH aunt and uncle) and guess what! They where!!! Could you have believed it that of all the open homes in NP, of all the days and all the minutes in the day we happened to be in the exact same home as them!!! We where all totally gobsmacked and chatted till we where thrown out by the estate agent who had to go to another house hehe. We went round there for dinner that night and have kept in contact since and go round to visit etc ...... Anyway thats my silly story, just still amazes me when I think about it hehe and just wanted to share it with you guys
Ali
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