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…we’re leaving today.

Well we were, when I took the following pics.

With a few hours to kill between checking out of our apartment and heading to the airport, we took the subway down to 42nd Street.

Where all that glitters is not gold, it’s the golden arches.

And then we walked through for a final look at the big tree in Rockefeller Plaza.

Thirty one and a half hours after getting into the taxi in New York, we stumbled out of one at our front door back in Melbourne. In between we had taken off and landed three times, and spent time in Los Angeles and Brisbane airports (yes, we took the long way home).

It was indeed a trip of a lifetime with a multitude of fabulous memories. We could have done without the whole shingles drama, but it did show us parts of Los Angeles and New York (i.e emergency rooms in medical clinics and children’s hospitals) that we wouldn’t otherwise have visited. We did so many amazing things, went to so many terrific places, and had so many great experiences.

After a solid sleep last night, I was wide awake at 5.30am this morning and decided to go out for a walk.
Dressed in a short-sleeved t-shirt, wandering under the mauve showers of jacaranda, listening to the cack-cack-caw of the morning magpies, admiring the heavily-laden boughs of emerald foliage on all the trees and breathing in the aroma of a summer morning, I reflected on our life here in Australia.
And then, when we hit the supermarket this afternoon and I was ambushed by the smell of peaches and nectarines, it was completely decided.
It was good to be home.
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