I look up at the desk of the Australian border security counter and i hear a friendly "G'day, where are you off to and for how long?". As the words come out of my mouth it hits me "i am off to England to live for 4-5 years". Wow, I am really doing this...after a year and a half of talking about it I am actually doing it! Crazy.... I wasn't sad though, I was a bit nervous and SO excited and grateful that I have the chance to do someone like this...as many don't. At that moment in time I could just be excited about this adventure because I knew I would meet my parents in England at the end of the month, it is the start of Dean and I's real relationship so I could pretend that we would have no fights and it would be easy, no one knew me so I could be a better version of myself form now one, I could pretend that finding a job and making friends would be easy... In that moment I decided to be a little ignorant and let myself just be excited.
I met a beautiful couple I met on the plane, LC (girl)& AC (boy). They sat next to me for the long 14 hour leg (poor things) and were coming back from their honeymoon in Borneo (lucky things!). You know when you're sitting next to someone on the plane and you get that awkwardness about do I say hi to them or do I put my earphones in or pretend I'm asleep until the plane has taken off and they have their tv headphone on. Well, I have come to be one of those annoying people who will talk to you and say hi, I just love hearing about people's lives and how they got to being in the plane seat next to me. However, I also know the none verbal signs that tell me to fuck off...including them putting their earphones in or falling asleep! Haha. Well I was lucky this time as LC, AC and I hit it off straight away as we shared the same humour. Which lucky for me is the really dry English humour where you just take the piss out of each other. Louise and I also shared another major thing in common; we are both as mad as each other as she moved over to England from Canada around 10 years ago and fell in love with a Pom.
At the end of the flight we shared contact details and said we would definitely catch up in England.
I have just got my phone sorted and have messaged LC since and we have organised a catch up next month. Dean couldn't believe I had made friends already...and neither could I!
Do you ever find that when you walk through the gates at an airport and you see all these people staring at you you get a little weirded out and you don't know where to look? You want to look for the people that have come to collect you, but at the same time you just want to sneak off to the side as quick as possible. As I scurried off to the side hoping that dean saw me I spot that cheeky grin I love so much... Even though it hasn't even been a week since I saw him I get that rush of excitement and turn all giddy. "You alright" he says to me sounding just as excited. We were like giddy teenagers looking at each other knowing that we were finally here...after 1.5 long years we could finally be a real couple and start our lives together. And what happened next pretty much sets out what our life will be together.
Firstly Dean couldn't remember where he parked the car, so we had to stop on every level of the multilevel carpark, and when we stopped at level 3 he stepped out and then, before i could stop them, suddenly the doors closed and I went up to level four faintly hearing him saying "stop, where the hell are you going?". I decided that waiting for him to find me would be best, so i waited at level 4 giggling to myself. As the doors opened I saw his face giving me that look I love so much, the one with the side smile with his head tilted down looking up at me trying to hold back a laugh, just shaking his head saying "there you are".
When we finally found the car and managed to stuff all 50kgs worth of suitcases in the car we were ready to set off! Well, that was until we realised we forgot to pay for the bloody parking! I could say that this all happened coz we were distracted by being so excited, but no, this is just an example of Dean and I's relationship! At least we will always laugh, or kill, each other :P Dean and I keep saying that it will be one of those things we laugh at now, but will hate later on once the honeymoon stage wares off - I guess we will see! I am going to really try to just not let the little things getting to me and just laugh about it, coz Dean is an amazing guy who treats me so well, but no one is perfect... And I wouldn't want him to be and neither am i! I'm far from it. Someone once told me that those little things that start to annoy you about your partners personality you should just accept and find a way to work around them instead of trying to change it, as it will only cause resentment, tension and stress between you both. And if those little things are worst things i have to worry about in the relationship I'm a pretty bloody lucky girl!!! Again, no doubt Dean will mark this entry as one to show me mid fight ;P
Talking about a fight...we nearly didn't get together because of an infamous fight we had the trip we got to know each other!
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