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- 22. mar. 2020, 22:00
- ☁️ 13 °C
- Høyde: Sjønivå
- New ZealandWaianakarua River45°14’40” S 170°52’10” E
We are home!!!
22. mars 2020, New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Today is a great day!! This morning we landed at Auckland airport, 30 mins late but no-one cared.... we were home!!! Thanks LATAM!!
We joined an extremely long queue that was then split into 4 lanes as we waited for a “health assessment”. This basically consisted of ensuring we knew we had to self isolate, had somewhere to self isolate to and didn’t need anything etc.
What was interesting was that there was a sensory wall at the airport and watching the amount of both adults and kids touching the wall, activating it but no hand sanitizer etc.... turn the wall off!! Lots of precautions but simple infection control procedures not being thought about.
K was desperately trying not to cough and sneeze ( she caught the ship cold) whilst in the health line but this just made her eyes red and watery so she looked even more ill!
Anyway we got through and then sailed through passport control before picking up our bags that were already going round and round on the carousel.
By now it was 06.45am and we had 2 hours until our flight to Dunedin.
We walked to the domestic terminal to get some good NZ fresh air even though it was still dark.
Check in for the last flight went smoothly and before long we were sat with a newspaper, large flat whites and a good old kiwi muffin- life was good.
( we tried to get an Airnz refund at the ticket desk but were advised we had to ring the service centre.....I can’t face another service centre on hold for hours at a time right now!!)
The connecting flight was on time and we boarded with our masks in situ. Airnz had spaced us out so the plane was only about a quarter full but it was an easy flight and before long we were landing in Dunedin! It felt like we had never left! Sadly it was only 4 weeks instead of 4 months but needs must at this crazy time.
Meem has kindly driven the truck down with the neighbours following. We did a car swap at a distance, just waving and communicating across the road before she jumped in with Dave and Yvonne to drive home whilst we dumped our gear in the truck and followed them up the road.
12.30pm we pulled into our drive in Moeraki and shut the gate behind us for the start of our 14 day self isolation- Coronavirus u r a pain in the ass but i can’t think of a better place to self isolate than home in Moeraki.
The crib was just as we left it albeit with a few more spiders webs- did I say it was nice to be home!!
Self isolation isn’t going to be too tough at all. Just so relieved to be back in NZ.
Thanks Meem for the care package just dropped off at the gate to comply with quarantine.Les mer
Reisende What to cry to see you both safe and at home.love Grandmother
Reisende Great to have you home. Hx
Reisende Phew!