Yup thats right! 23 whole days since my last post. Time sure does fly!

These past 23 days has been quite a busy and interesting time for us so I think I’ll start where i left off.

We were planning to head out to Melbourne early morning around 6am and as some plans go that did not happen. We went to bed pretty late as we finalised the packing and played tetris with our things on the back of our car. Plus since we spent most of the evening saying goodby to friends and my sis and family our cleaning up time was pushed way back. It was funny having so many people over at our almost empty house, sitting on the somewhat damp floor (carpet was cleaned just that morning hence why it was kinda damp) having pizza.

The next day I took photos of the empty rooms with a heavy heart. This was our home. Almost 4 years ago we entered the house all giddy with excitement. We were extremely happy to put the anticipation of rental agents, house inspections behind us, not to mention the thought of being able to hang any pictures/painting up, paint the walls or make any changes to the house was such a thrill in itself coz this was our home, from the front door all the way to the hinges that hold up the back door this was our home. We didnt have to make any changes to the house but we wanted to, the extra effort we put in with doing the renovations on our own made the house even more special for us and even harder to let go.

It was time to go. So Pob ushered the puppies to the backyard and gave them their smachos while I was singing that frigging jetplane song, trying hard to not think how sad this all was (i know i know that song doesnt help but i seriously could not get it out of my head!). I was doing well and wasnt getting overly emotional. That was until Pob came up to me with Mango in his arms asking me to say goodbye. My head turned towards him and mango and indoing so scanned the empty house and then i broke down and sobbed. Just seeing the empty place, saying goodbye to the furkids and with the uncertainty of the next phase just slammed into both of us like a ton of bricks. The previous sleepless night did not help either (I have to admit our old futton is not as comfy as i thought it would be!!). We could not stop the tears. It was silly really. We chose to make this move. We had friends in Melbourne, we werent totally alone. But it was still all sad, our family was in canberra, our home was in canberra, Melbourne at that time just seemed very foreign.

Finally the tears stopped rolling and we composed ourselves and i must say that having sunnies on does help create the illusion that he was fine, I was fine, we were fine, we know what we’re doing, and everything is just fine. We headed off towards Pob’s mums place to bid farewell. I think she could tell we were a bit sad. She packed us a lovely picnic basket. We had everything, sambos, snacks, chocolates, Tim Tams!, water, a thermos, coffee, tea, sugar, milk and even a lil container of room temp water for me to add to my milkless tea! How spoilt were we!! hehe

We said our goodbyes and as we were pulling out of Pob’s parents driveways there were tears yet again (his mum joined in this time!!). Our next stop was to say goodbye to Pob’s sister, so we dropped by her office to say goodbye and have a couple of hugs. Our final stop was a quick goodbye to my sister at her office. Again it was all very sad.

It was after 11 by the time we headed out of Canberra. We finally saw the dog on the tucker box in Gundagai! People have told us you can actually see from the highway but it wasnt that big there was no way you could see the puppy from the highway so Im not sure where that rumour came from. We had our picnic lunch at holbrook but it was a cold and kinda dreary day so the warmth of the coffee was welcomed with open arms. It was after 7pm by the time we reached melbourne and thanks to Ms. GPS we found our location without any problems =D
We were renting a room from a friend’s (Ir0n Maiden) parents place while we looked for a new home. When we got there we just headed straight for our room and straight to bed. The drive was long and since we didnt have much sleep the previous night it was very tiring and plus the whole day was quite emotional and draining so it didnt take us long to clonk out and enter sleep land.