Catch-up, Part II : We had visitors ...

The week before Christmas, just for one night.

The MOTH's folks have bought a business. Still up north (unfortunately ... wouldn't it be just the greatest if they moved down here to keep us company ?!?!?!?) but the owner / head office is in Invercargill so they had to come down and do the meet-and-greet and sign the papers.

They could have done a there-and-back-in-a-day thing ... but instead they flew to Invercargill, rented a car, did what they had to, drove two and a half hours to see us, stayed the night, and flew out from Dunedin the next morning.

Words are inadequate to describe how good it was to see them again, especially as it was totally unexpected and I had no idea they were coming (the MOTH is very good at keeping secrets, dammit !!!) ...

K was upset when they left because of the shortness of their stay, but I tried to remind him to be happy that we saw them at all, rather than focusing on the fact they were only here for one night :)

Interesting that they've now been to see us the exact same number of times my folks have since we moved here seven months ago ...