Our last day onboard was quite uneventful. It was a mixture of sadness and excitement as we exited our little broom cupboard aka cabin for the last time. We had become very attached to it and it does make you realise how little we need to be happy and content. We were supposed to vacate at 8 a.m. but our lovely steward gave us some extra time. Our disembarkation time was 12. 15 so what was the point in rushing to the Dining Room just to sit around. Eventually we did reach there and found our cosy little group of friends in the back corner. It soon became very small as we said our goodbyes almost every half an hour. Soon it was our turn to put that little card in the machine for the last time....oh no it will be difficult to use a key to open my front door!!
The process of getting our luggage, then to the airport was almost stress free, a bit of a queue here and there but really ok. As you may have read earlier about our visit to Qantas in Auckland....this resulted in a letter allowing us some excess baggage discount. I didn't get my hopes up at this HOWEVER I will say that we were 90 kilos in total and 44 kilos in excess luggage and we paid.......nothing, zilch!! Still not sure how this happened but hey I am not complaining.
Our lovely friends, Jo and Brian invited us into the Qantas Club Lounge, where we sipped on free booze and lovely food for a few hours. This just gave me enough sedation to board the plane in a semi zombie state.....I hate flying. Arriving at Perth, the tunnel you normally walk through was faulty so we had to disembark down stairs, carrying all the luggage, and into THE RAIN. As we climbed the next set of steps, suddenly in front of me was our kids and their partners. Wow it was fantastic to see them again.
Bec had decorated our family room with streamers and welcome home signs, it was lovely.
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