Trip to New Zealand with Mum

A country that I had visited once but only for a few days.

Mother has been with me in Sydney for a week or so now and we have visited the sites including Melbourne but now it is time for our trip to New Zealand.

Monday we were up early and Mum and I packed our bags as it was too hot to do it the day before, then we slowly got ready. We got to the airport, unfortunately we had separate flights to New Zealand as we’d both booked our tickets with different airlines…Mum’s left an hour before mine. I was a bit worried about the flight again…I’m getting quite bad lately…I’d been to the doctors for some more valium, so I was well prepared….but this time, I decided instead of having tablets, I’d just have a couple of glasses of wine (which is what I always used to do, but for some reason I stopped) and I tell you, it worked a treat, I wasn’t even worried when it was really bumpy on the descent into Christchurch….brilliant!!!

So I arrived (a bit tiddly) at the airport to find Mum already there with Aunty Betty, Uncle Derek (who is also visiting New Zealand from England) and Bill and Brenda (our cousins). It was lovely to see them all again, it’d been a long time. Mum and I were staying at Aunty Betty’s, so they took us there, we had a little chat when we got there, but it was really late so we went to bed quite soon after.