"When are you coming home?"

I first started this blog when I found myself answering the same questions about our move all the time.  Well, it's happening again.  So, that has also made me think I should start this up again.


We will be arriving back in Minnesota on Monday, May 7th.    We have quite the journey planned to get there however.  We are going to leave Gisborne on March 30th or 31st to start a month long road trip of New Zealand.  We will be traveling in our honda accord station wagon all the way down to the bottom of the South Island.   We will then travel all the way back up to Auckland via the west coast of the North Island.  We hope to sell our car on Trade Me (NZ version of E-Bay)  for drop off in Auckland, but if this doesn't happen we will bring it to a car auction.    As that takes at least a week to happen, we will then pick up a campervan and travel up the very northern part (the Bay of Islands).    Because after traveling for 3 weeks in a small car with small children, who wouldn't want live/sleep/eat in a vehicle for the last week?

As long as I have not been committed to a psych ward, we will be traveling back to the states on April 30th and spending our first week back in Phoenix with Grandpa Terry and Nana Bonnie.    I imagine we won't be the funnest house guests as we readjust to the northern hemisphere, but I know they will take good care of us.  Brett will add to his fun by taking an ATLS (advanced trauma life saving) course while we are there. And, then, finally we are going home.   Where exactly that is though is still not entirely clear.

THIS IS WHAT WE WILL STUFFING OUR LIFE INTO FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL