Day 12
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School work again with the boys this morning. Keeps us busy and hope to catch them up a little up to what their classmates are doing.
Phone call today from nurses to check all well. They are not doing their normal rounds today. In regards to our day 11/12 Covid swabs, when asked, she advised that no news is good news. So basically if we haven't heard anything by tomorrow morning then we should be all good. They only advise of positive results.
Meals today were all over the place. No morning tea snack came with breakfast, then seaweed came as a snack with lunch, for everyone. Dinner was completely wrong for both Brad and I, and one dessert was missing. Not sure what was going on in the kitchen yesterday. They resent dinner for us, and thre extra dessert which was good of them.
Quarantine Olympics again this afternoon followed by a family movie in the evening.
Forms arrived for us to complete for our pending departure.
Day 13
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A little school work today and lots of packing! Tomorrow is escape day!
Temperature checks by the nurses again, and all paperwork complete for departure!
Celebration dinner - not specifically, but I'd ordered pork belly, Brad beef cheeks, Nico pizza, and Cale chicken burger and chips. Pepsi for the boys and bubbles for the adults!
Not long now and we'll be sleeping in our own beds after nine months!
Day 14
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Escape day!!!!
Woken by nurses at 6:30am for final temperature checks and to have our exit forms signed.
Breakfast arrived soon after, waffles for Brad and Cale, cereal for Nico, quinoa and salmon salad for me. It was pretty much all go after this! Well not for Nico, he went back to bed for some more sleep!
All packed and ready to go! Brad escaped at 9am to walk down and collect our hire car.
The process is, again well organised. Porters are available continuously to assist. The came and loaded all our luggage onto their trolley, not allowed into the room though, we have to take everything out to hallway.
We then make our way down to level one in one lift, while the porter goes in another. We are directed to 'departures' and queue. Very mixed emotions at this point! Excited to finally be leaving and heading home, but sad that this is how it turned out/ended.
Its our turn. We hand over our completed exit forms which is signed by the nurses, along with our passports. We are each given a letter explaining that we have completed our required 14 days isolation without issue and with two negative Covid tests. We are almost free!
We walk to the hotel 'entrance' which is all fenced off and monitored by security. We can see Brad waiting on the 'outside'. Once again we hand over our passports, this time to security staff, along with the letters we have just been given. The tall security fencing is opened and we are free to leave!!!
The porter hands our luggage trolley over to a security staff member and helps Brad load the van - a Hyundai iMax.
We are off!!! Its a very strange feeling. A mixture of happiness, sadness and uncertainty as we head along the motorway out of Auckland!
The outside of the Grand Millennium. Our rooms are up there somewhere!
We stop in Tirau for some lunch - a pie/sausage roll of course from the BP!! On our way again and we arrive at our home, greeted by Mum and Dad about 4:30pm.
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