New baby - YAY - timing - well done Nona!!!!!

Wow, talk about last minute happenings, as we were about to take the luggage from the house to the taxi and leave for the airport, Colin phoned to say Nona had just given birth. Following a chat with the driver, we were very happy to find out we had enough time with a detour to call in to the hospital on the way for a brief visit.

We felt very priviliged when we arrived and were allowed into the delivery room - their new son (yet to be named) hadn't even been weighed or measured!! He looked fantastic, good head of hair and you can certainly see lots of Nona's features - congratulations to you both. As we were leaving the hospital, Brenda and Keiran (Nona's parents) were arriving and we had the chance to congratulate the new Grandparents and say our farewells.

When we checked in we found out the plane loading was full - not a spare seat anywhere. Grace and the girls got the middle four seats on the new A380 and I had an aisle seat, hoped the person next to me wasn't a 150kg giant. I was pleased to find out that wasn't the case but I had the passenger from ?? in front - he was very large and insisted on dropping his chair back as far as possible, as quickly as possible and as frequently as possible, crushing my knees often....oh well, only a 13 hour flight :-(

Due to the excitement of the new baby and delayed arrival to check in, the person responsible for getting our GST refund at the airport completely forgot - I've given myself a good dressing down and don't want to look at the receipts to see we should have got. Also managed to send our cameras into "checked in" luggage (clearly didn't want to do that) so we've been unable to take photos to record our departure...another black mark for the person responsible - yep, me again!!

LA here we come