The Final Post

Neiva Elizabeth Keir - bliss!

This photo says it all!

And baby makes three - The happy family!

Home after 5 weeks of  our "Adventure before Dementia", some would say with losing both our wallet and purse we are already there! 


Walked into our home after the flight to a roaring fire and roast chicken dinner with all the trimmings.  Our lovely nieces from Christchurch, Claire and Rose, along with Claire's husband Kieran and their wee daughter Zoe were up visiting and had gone to so much trouble.  Also very patient at hearing about our trip and even more exciting, keeping me company through the evening as we received great text updates about Laura from Michael.....FINALLY: 12.25pm weighing in at 7lb 6oz, beautiful Neiva Elizabeth Keir made her entrance.....What a welcome home gift to receive the news that Neiva had arrived and both her and Laura were safe and well.
Many thanks to everyone who checked out our travel diary, feedback by text and email and have sent wishes to Laura, Mike and Neiva. 
We are also pleased to report Emily and Tristan are now home after another long stay in hospital and while Tristan is still having his medications intravenously, given by Em's, he is expected to make a good recovery from the disc infection and is finally on the improve.  Brett and JJ are pleased that they are home too.


All are looking forward to meeting young Neiva, still on Cloud 9 and you will be stalked with photos and baby stories for sure.............Ciao for now!

Back to NZ

We had good flights & lovely service, albeit on very booked planes, so no spare seats to be had this tim around to stretch out.  From London to Dubai and after a couple of hours in transit onto Brunei we shared our row with a great Scottish Lass who was on her way to NZ for a year of working and travelling.  We got on so well and had lots to talk about, questions to answer for her and her for us.  We all hung out during the transit in Dubai and had coffee and checked emails in Brunei.  The last leg of the journey went well too with us sitting next to a farming couple from Hamilton, recently retired and they had some great stories to tell of their time in UK also. 
Arrived in Auckland, with Laura (41 weeks pregnant) and husband Mike there to meet us at the airport - a great sight at 1 o'clock in the morning!  Spent the weekend catching up on their news, some sleep and shopping and having a decent mocha!
Flight booked for 3/7/2011 5pm Sunday night and as we were pretty much boarding the plane, got a text to say Laura had her first contraction!  Exciting, though frustrating flight home for the both of us.........work tomorrow and perhaps baby news.......