Notes from the Road (5) - Super Coopers

We moved out of our house on Saturday, 1^st April (no jokes!) and stayed with Colin and Lynette for two nights. We knew that we were going to need a couple of days to tie up loose ends in New Plymouth so hadn’t booked our flights out of the Naki until the Monday. Although it was quite stressful sorting those final things out, two days was actually enough time. Any longer and we’d just have faffed on decisions. As a reminder to the future me, the things we found ourselves doing over these two days were:

·      Final charity shop runs

·      Cancelling the AA membership

·      Cancelling the house insurance

·      Cancelling the car insurance

·      Transferring Nerva’s car insurance to a different premium

·      Storing Nerva at Steph & Glenn’s house (what a pair of legends)

·      Selling our Honda C-RV and finalizing all the paperwork for her (we ended up giving the keys to the buyer even though the money hadn’t cleared at the bank!)

·      Taking the Sky box back

·      Giving away heaps of booze

·      Returning the borrowed travelcot for William

·      Binning household paperwork

·      Packing properly for the flight to Auckland and onward journey to Fiji, the USA and Europe

·      Saying our final Naki goodbyes

Colin and Lynnie were such brilliant hosts; giving us the whole of the upstairs of their house to get organsied, feeding us (a legitimate hāngī!), giving us the space we needed to prepare to leave and welcoming our friends into their home to say our final goodbyes. Colin even took us out to the airport on the Monday morning! Superstars.

William and Uncle Waisake Naholo

WIlliam and Ruby

Ante Natal besties

Kisses for Ruby - Awwwww