So this is it!...

So this is it!...

...We've checked in and are waiting patiently, drinking cider (of course) at T4 for our gate to open. What a rollercoaster of a month! So many goodbyes, but such an awesome excuse to spend so much time with the people we care so much about. It makes you feel alive and it fills you up with this massive, gushing, totally overwhelming feeling of love and affection that we will carry around with us for the next forever.

It's a funny old soup of emotions...

NERVES! So many nerves! Crazy, butterfly nerves that make you feel a little tearful and permanently like you're about to walk into the most important interview of your life.

Sadness at saying goodbye, which isn't actually sadness, it's more a self-indulgent melancholy because you know you will miss people, but actually you relish it because feeling sad means you are loved and that you love back, so so much, and that's the most important thing. It's silly really, as I know it's such a small small world nowadays that it won't feel so far away, but there you go.

Excitement!-it's taken us getting to the airport for this to finally sink in as we've had so much to do/organise/prepare, but finally it's arrived and now we have to wait 3 whole plane rides before we can give Ad and Bella that big hug that will start our adventure. (Clairey just asked me what I'm most excited about and at the moment all I could muster was...Adam and Bella have praying mantis in their GARDEN!!). But seriously, I think there is SO much to look forward to that at the moment all I can think about is about getting there, and I'm told the praying mantis are waiting!

Glorious indulgence (/horror) that I get to spend EVERY DAY for the next YEAR with brodie. What a bloody awesome luxury (our cameras are going to get a beasting). We know there will be super highs and I'm sure some lows, and guaranteed squabbles, but most of all we are SO unbelievably aware of how lucky we are to be able to do this and to be able to share it with each other. Hell. Yes.

I can't bloody wait.

Au revoir me lovelies xxx