And so it came, after months of wondering if it ever would. The test of all our months of endless preparations, and we found ourselves in a sweaty fervour, cramming items into the four large suitcases we would be taking that would supply us for the next 3.5 seasons, hardly having a fraction of a section to reflect on the finality of what was about to happen.
Finally, late in the afternoon, after running non-stop from task to task since the day before, we had to surrender to the fact that an airplane would soon leave the ground and whisk us away from these urgent cares. The time had come to say goodbye.
We pulled our many bags and suitcases out of the house and closed and locked it for the last time, proud of its shining condition we were finally able to achieve.
Then came the hard part...saying goodbye to our dear friends next door, who had been our family over the past seven years.
Friends since birth, and before - lives woven together by time. What we were about to do was almost unthinkable.
But here we go, with hearts in suspense...
Farewell, until we meet again!
