Glorious Thursday

It's been an emotional week but today I am smiling, nay, grinning like all is right with the world. I have been trying to change our flights back to Ireland to allow us to get to two weddings of friends in Sept/Oct. We always knew that we had at least one wedding to come home for during our year out here in NZ but now we are blessed with having two to go to. When we booked our flights last year we were assured by our travel agent that there wouldn't be any issue with changing the date of our return portion back to Ireland - ALL we had to do was contact the airline in NZ, confirm our new return date and pay the change fee. Needless to say it wasn't that simple and I have been on an emotional rollercoaster all week waiting to see if we could get the flights we wanted and now finally many, many, phonecalls and emails later WE GOT FLIGHTS!!

I know it wouldn't have been the end of the world if we missed my friends wedding, in fact he couldn't have been more understanding but I was gutted at the thought of not being able to get flights until a few days AFTER his wedding - that's the best the airline were offering until I persuaded them otherwise - I won't go into it all since the drama is now over but sometimes being on the other side of the world is hammered home forcefully and this was one of those weeks. So, we did get flights, they are not ideal - we arrive back into Dublin airport at lunchtime on the day of the wedding party - I've no idea what time it kicks off at but I know it's an eveningtime affair. I just hope I'll be so high on emotion and excitement I'll be able to stay awake!!!!!!