New Zealand bureaucracy grinds slowly, but it does grind. We finally recieved the paper from the Medical Council last night. I purchased our tickets in the wee hours of the morning and sent off the visa applications today. So we are really going, and I feel like I can exhale for the first time in six weeks.
As a result of all the waiting and changes to our tickets that we had to make, we are flying not through LAX as originally planned, but through San Fransisco. And better yet, we ended up with an eleven hour stopover from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. I am really excited about breaking up the flights and showing the kids Fisherman's Wharf, the Golden Gate Bridge, giving them Ghiradelli's Chocolate and maybe even leaving them at Alcatraz. It will be a day of adventure.
Now on to the next step. The movers come in ten days. We have made great progress in throwing out, giving away and generally getting rid of 80% of what we own, but there is still so much left. It all has to go into a 10 x 20 storage room on August 13th. The purging must continue. Attachment is the enemy.
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