Back In Oz

Got into Melbourne last night at around 11 PM. Glenys, Peter, Karen, Jeff, Harold, and Harold's friend Adam were all there to meet us at the airport. Right before we walked through the gate I took a look at my passport and noticed that it was almost two years to the day since we last walked through that same gate. In some ways it feels like ages, but at the same time it seems like it could have been just yesterday.

Karen and Jeff weren't planning on coming back to Geelong, so we sat in the airport for about an hour and had a cup of tea. It's so strange to see all these people face to face after so many years of thinking of them as disembodied voices on the other end of a phone line.

As is the way with families, everything felt completely natural and conversation fell into a natural rhythm. Which is to say Fiona talked and everybody else tried to follow along.

Anyway, we're at Fiona's parents' now and we're having a barbecue for dinner tonight so I'm going to sign off. I'll try to do some proper posting tomorrow and I have loads of Fiji shots and other goodies, but it's going to take some time to get everything sorted. For now, I'll offer you a couple of teasers:

And finally, this is the view from Wayasewa:

Posted by flow Frazao on December 18, 2004 at 03:26 AM in Australia, Fiji | Permalink