Sat at the dinner table thinking about how today is going to unfold. This is what the “plan” is for today:
- Charge EVERYTHING
- April going for a last short run
- Bacon and Egg sandwiches to kickstart the day
- Take bike to garage
- Pop to shop and get car snacks / sweets
- Check bags for everything
- Pack things I’d forgotten
- Pop round to mums to say farewell till August
- Check bags again
- Stuff in more things I’d forgotten
- Getting collected at 12pm for drive to Gatwick (thank you Justine xxx)
- Try to calm the crowd of people seeing us off
- Re-assure parents we are coming back
- Wipe tears away to before kids see
- Drive along A303 from Exeter to Gatwick
- Stop for wee
- Stop for food
- Take picture of Stonehenge (without stopping)
- Stress the traffic is too bad
- Try hardest not to be a backseat driver
- Give Justine (our personal driver) a huge hug and wish her and her whole family the very best. (and apologise for all the backseat driving a couldn’t stop)
- Enter airport and check in!
- Have small freak-out
So I’ll write update with what actually went down once we get to the airport and have a coffee to chill.
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Aaron
The Brooks Family Big Adventure 
Safari njema! (Which means have a good journey in Swahili !)xx
You’ll be in the air now. We’re thinking of you all and hope the flight goes well. Looking forward to your next update on here 🙂 xx
The journey to the airport was actually really good fun! Ruben and Rosie were so good, you would hardly have known they were there. Aaron wasn’t too badly behaved either. I did realise quite quickly that rather than criticise my driving out loud (which could have been very bad for him) he would tap out a rhythm on the dash with his hands. I also now know Aaron also has a great singing voice, with great range, he can really hit those high notes!!!!
I need to get us some of those car bingo cards……awesome.