BellTribe Day 1

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2 days to go and must get round to this packing .....

This is our gear for 5 1/2 months

Didn't realise the malaria tablets would come in LARGE brown bags!! This is just Fred's supply!!

BELL TRIBE DAY 1.

With a lot of help from our great friends and family we managed to move out of the house, pack into storage, send Max (100 year old Jack Russell) and Herbie (11.2 pony) to Shropshire and be on our way.

Well unexpectedly we all made the flight following a calm and welcomed drive down to Heathrow form Giles which helped reduce high stress levels from the previous 2 weeks of trying to get our heads round the fact that the following 2 weeks would be on us before realising that we were actually leaving!! Luckily there was not a queue at check in which gave us the opportunity to remove the 2000 malaria tablets from their neat little individual boxes and pack them more sensibly, filling the airport recycling bin and leaving enough cardboard behind to build a small hotel for any Heathrow waifs and strays looking to find a room for the night.
The flight was a great chance to wind down and was as eventful as any flight with 3 small children with Imogen (7) managing to spill a cup of Orange Juice all over me, over North Africa, somehow managing to sit on the chocolate for 3500km, that had found its way under her bottom and Harry throwing up 10 minutes before landing in Dubai (first leg to Hong Kong) just missing the very nice American lady sitting next to Jo. Not to mention the Muppet behind me opening the locker in flight and sending my camera flying out bouncing off 2 seat rests and hitting the floor with a thud! Not sure what the photos will turn out like? Unusually normal so far!