Hello From the Inside...

 It has quite quickly become blindingly obvious that there is actually not enough going on in my life at the moment to write every day.  That and I honest to god can't remember what we did yesterday... Ooh I know!  We started school!  The Ministry of Education provide each of the kids with a pack that contains a homework book, a couple of exercise books, some reading, some stationary and a maths book.  Unfortunately they gave us two year 1's and a year 7.  Alex is Yr8, Owen Yr 6 and Amelia (thank goodness!) is Yr 3!  Amelia has set to work on the Yr 1 workbook, and Alex on the Yr 7 while we wait for the correct ones to arrive.  Owen is writing us an epic tale which involves Klingons and becoming a deformed centipede.  We might publish it later..  We also decided it might be time to give the boys the Razor Crest lego set they had bought before we left Canada (and didn't know had arrived)  It came with two smaller sets, so we put the ...

 Woke in the dark.... forced myself back to sleep (oh the hardship).  Woke again at about 6.  Lay there feeling all muzzy for a bit before I realised Matt wasn't there.   Turns out he was sitting out in the foyer area doing some work.  He'd woken at about 4 and decided to go do some work instead of thrash around and wake me up!  He climbed back into bed and we were soon joined by Amelia.  We chatted for a bit, then Matt decided a bath was in order!  Spa bath at 7am anyone?   After his coffee and soak he popped next door to check on the boys - Owen was still asleep!   We woke him when breakfast arrived at about 8 - a goodly long sleep.  They told us they had woken up for about an hour in the night, but had managed to get back to sleep again.  Legend. We munched down our breakfast and decided to try the outdoor area again.  We got masked up and opened to door to find the Wellness team standing there to take ou...

 We arrived at our quarantine hotel at about 9am, so I'm counting the 15th as our first day in!  Once we had checked in, we got our luggage, grabbed some snacks and headed to the room.  They had allocated us two suites - one with two queens in a single room and the other two rooms with a king and two queens - a bed for everyone! We have a giant bathroom and the benefit of two bar fridges for all the bloody cans of fizz and bottles of milk headed our way!  The boys bagsied the separate room, and Matt got to the king sized bed before Amelia (lucky!)   The major disadvantage of coming off a long haul flight and going straight into quarantine, is that there is no family to keep you awake till a sensible hour.  We decided to busy ourselves with unpacking (who wants to live out of suitcases for two weeks) reading the information pack, filling in the myriad of forms required, and waiting for lunch.  Unpacking was painful.  When you took a solid day ...

 The alarm was set for 3.30 am, and boy was it a rude awakening.  The last 24 hours had been a total stressball - repacking all our bags, cleaning the house and trying to fit in social engagements.  The kids had their last in face DND session with the fabulous Seth, I went kayaking up Todd Inlet looking at the fabulous bioluminescence with Silke and Bridget (thanks Di!) and said a tearful goodbye to the wonderful Cordova Bay and our BC tribe. We spent that last night at a hotel near the airport - we figured the early flight warranted being close!  as it was the alarm dragged us all out of bed and into our clothes before we even really realised what we were doing.  The taxis arrived and we were off.  The airport had told us we needed to be there by 3.30 - 2 hours before the flight - we really didn't.  There was us and a couple of staff members in the airport when we got there and it was a total breeze checking in.  We handed over passports and bagg...