Darian and I have been planning this trip for a while, originally we were going to take both boys with us, but Matthew wanted to stay home. So we booked the flights for us and Joel...
Then mum (thanks mum) suggested that we should leave Joel at home too...we ummed and ahhhed for a while and thought well why not.
So I have spent the last few weeks getting the kids organised and what seemed of hundreds of lists of routines, phone numbers, what to do when and why....
But at last we were ready to go. Mum and George came up a few days early so that Joel could get used to being put to bed by someone else....no problem there :)
So the day has come for our holiday
We were up at 4am and left the house as silent as possible at 5 only to get to the freeway and discover that I forgot my other suit case key (just incase I needed to unlock the stupid pouches that they put on the outside of the suitcase) so I had to wake the house to get back in...
But we were off again...good thing that time of morning there is no traffic...we got to the airport with time to spare, dropped our car off at the secure airport parking and went to check in...
hmmmm we were flying Garuda and we must of got the only person there that didn't know what she was doing.....first Joel hadn't been taken off the ticket so she had to do that and then she checked me in...all done and then tried to check in Darian, only to be told that as a South African he may need a visa to go to Indonesia.....Flight centre didn't tell us this....and no visa means no go.......so after a wait and a few discussions with others she discovered that NO visa was needed......ahhhhhhhhh. She then tried to book him in and his passport wouldn't swipe and that she had to manually process his passport. She didn't know how to do this so had to ask someone else how to do it....and then of course his resident visa is in his old passport.....we were there for a good half hour sorting this out....
So finally we had our boarding passes and it was time to go and do some duty free shopping....
I bought myself 2 bottles of Amarula and Darian bought 2 bottles of Brandy...and then to wait for boarding. By this time the sun was rising and we could see fog out side on the runways....our flight was due to take off at 7.30 am...
We boarded the flight and sat down, we were right behind business and we had 3 seats...a spare for Joel :)
the engines started and then the captain spoke and told us that the flight was delayed for an hour due to the fog...we had to sit and do nothing for an hour...I am so glad that we didn't bring Joel...the other parents were having such a hard time....
eventually we took off at 8.45am and the flight was a dream...I even got to watch a movie (race to witch mountain) brekkie was delightful....Couldn't fault the cabin crew or Garuda itself....
We landed at Bali and it was raining...Hard....we got through immigration and collected our baggage with no fuss....we went out side and waited for our hotel transport...
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