Onboard at last

Well here we are, finally ensconced in our new surroundings on the good ship Irrepressible. I've just noticed that the last post was over a month ago on 30 May. My excuse for such slackness is that we were busy looking after a couple of kids in Australia for a month (well, it's sort of true). Actually, we had a great time in OZ, helping Kerrie and Rick with Sophie and Toby while Kerrie was doing day shifts at Redcliffe hospital then a week of (sort of) relaxation with Ange and Zane. It was great being able to spend so much time with them all and seeing how much the grandchildren have changed and in the case of Liam, actually seeing him change over the five weeks we were there.





We were due to leave on 18th July but in the end the attraction of the new life on the new boat got the better of us and we brought the flights forward by a couple of weeks.

Our friends met us at Christchurch airport with our car which they had been looking after and we drove straight up to Picton where we stayed with friends for a couple of days ,tieing up a number of loose ends then got the ferry to Wellington and drove up to Napier. The 30 or 40 cartons with all our gear in arrived a couple of days after we got here and after loading them all on board we stood around like a couple of stunned mullets wondering what we had let ourselves into.

I've just tried to upload more photos but nothing's happening so I think I'll publish this and try a new posting.