Take off eh
This is the end, my only friend the end.
Well it’s 2:40am New Zealand time and we’re just a couple hours away from heading to the Christchurch airport for our flight home. We’re mostly packed aside from a few things. I have to say the whole situation is quite surreal. We’ve packed up our room so many times that it’s become quite routine, only this time instead of loading up George and heading off to the next town, we’re heading home.
I’m going to miss New Zealand a lot. It’s a georgous country, and I highly recommend it to anyone (if you can stand the flight). I’ve never seen a place that seems to have every kind of landscape and environment packed into such a small area. They have mountains, plains, deserts, rainforests, valleys, and even some arctic. The wildlife won’t kill you and the ocean is almost always within a stone’s throw.
Having said all this I’m not sad to be leaving. I’m looking forward to the next step, there’s plenty to be done back home and the cool thing is just because we’re leaving New Zealand doesn’t mean we’re loosing anything. I still have the experience of tossing myself out of a plane at 15,000 feet. I can still picture that sevengill shark gliding towards my mask, and I still remember the feeling of brushing my hand along the side of a stingray as it glided over my shoulder.
The trip wasn’t all rosey, there was stress, there was poor pay and early mornings. There were times George wouldn’t start and times when all we wanted were the comforts of home, but to be honest, I wouldn’t have traded it for the world.
I want to publicly (as publicly as this little read blog can allow) thank everyone who helped me get here. Mom and Dad obviously if it wasn’t for your help I never would have even been able to have gotten on the plane, and Nannie and Granddad, you guys helped me more than you can know. Obviously there are plenty of others who have helped me in countless other ways, but time is short so for now I’ll just have to say thank you.
Christine’s going to jump on for her final New Zealand post now. So this is it for me.
So goodbye for the last time in New Zealand.
Weird.
