Easter in the UK!

Hello again ... after a LONG break from the blog! Big apologies ... with the craziness of our time in the UK and then coming back to various illnesses, the hangar closing and the biggest mountain of paperwork we've ever had to plough through towards our Australian visas, life has been anything but normal!

Having said that, we really enjoyed spring time in the UK, there was very little rain and lots of beautiful spring flowers. We realised that it was our first Easter in the UK since 2009 and it was lovely to experience the fresh, flowery spring, filled with MANY chocolate Easter eggs!!

  

In the end we had 10 speaking engagements of varying sizes (including multiple church services, bring and share lunches and afternoon teas), 3 trips to Interhealth in London, 1 trip to New Scotland Yard for fingerprinting and a visit to the MAF UK offices. In amongst that we had a chance to visit M&M world, ride on the London Eye, go to Monkey World, a ride on the Bluebell (steam) Railway, catch a West End musical, go bowling and have a day at a seaside. As well as meeting up with close friends and family. Here are just a few of the photo's we took ...

One of the highlights was the opportunity to celebrate Naomi's 3rd birthday with family. It's one of the first of our birthday's we've had the chance to spend with them all since we started with MAF back in 2009 which made it extra special!

There was definitely more that we would have liked to have done and many many more people we would like to have had the opportunity to see ... but a month is a month ... and there is only so much you can fit into that short space of time!

We did feel completely wiped out at the end of it when we got back, which is probably part of the reason various family members have been under the weather since then. However we did consider it a real privilege to update so many people face-to-face, as the ins and outs of what is going on in our lives and MAF here in Tanzania was much easier to explain in person.

Thank you so much to all of you that we were able to see ... for your support and encouragement during such a challenging time for us as a family.

As always when you live overseas there are always foods that you REALLY miss and are on a wish list for when we're 'home'! Amazingly, having lived in Tanzania for 16 months, this time round things like chicken, broccoli, salad and red peppers were on ours! We did manage to visit some of our favourite eateries and enjoy some British treats too though ... Cream Tea, Fish and Chips to name just a few! We'll leave you with a couple of photo's of those!!