Monthly Archives: December 2008

Happy Birthday Alison mou!

18 December 2008

Pics from Alison’s first birthday in America :)

We had a lovely dinner at BJ’s restaurant in Jarvisburg. Mom bought us dinner and had made arrnagements to have the table decorsted with flowers and gifts and we were joined for dinner by Tracey, Megan and Grace and Phil and his wife Kathy. afterwards it was a stop by tracey’s house where she and the kids had made a cake and more flowers and presents. Just a wonderful evening we had. Happy Birthday Mrs G! I love you! xxx

Alison’s Birthday

Our First Christmas Tree

12 December 2008

Our first Christmas treeToday marks one of the ‘firsts’ for us with so many more still to come. This one is very special though. We have always had a hard time being apart on holidays; Christmas being especially hard for us. Today we went and bought a tree together and some decorations. We put on some Christmas msic and had a lovely evening filled with such a tremendous happiness of sharing something we have dreamed of for quite a while. We had bought the ingredients to make mulled wine but feeling a bit worn out form a long day of shopping we thought better to pass on it tonight or we would never have got the tree done! ;)

I’ve not taken the time to post anything since Alison arrived,  we’ve been doing a lot of ‘catching up’ :) I will post a better update on things soon, but for now we are settling in just wonderfully and so very happy being together. Her flight over was good and was actually a little early arriving. She made it through immigration very quickly too. The time difference so far hasnt been too bad a problem and shes adjusting well to that , maybe wakign a bit early in the morings but usually managing to get back to sleep. the weather has been rainy but warm the first couple of days. It cleared up nice today but getting a little colder today. Just made it feel more like the Christmas season.

Ok time for some more catching up.. :) speak to you all soon and thanks for all the congratulations and comments and mails!

Shes here!

9 December 2008

Writing this ahead of time and will hit publish when I see my bride coming down the hall! Tick tock … Thump thump, thump thump … my heart is about to fly out of my chest! …. It’s time for the plane the screen says …. This is maddening …. Three years waiting, now down to minutes… One things for sure, after I hit send you may not hear anything for a while!! Just got the text alert.. Plane landed!! I see people coming!! YES!!!!! :)

Nearly time

9 December 2008

Sitting now at tge airport these last minutes waiting for Alison to arrive. Minutes seem like hours right now. I feel like a teenager, I feel great! Gonna be even better in a few more minutes!

Touchdown New York!

9 December 2008

Welcome to the US of A my Beautiful Brit! Touchdown of her flight was at 4:35 pm! a full half hour ahead of schedule! Let shope the rest of the evening goes so smooth! Oh how I wish there was direct flights to Norfolk, but anyway Alison Michelle is in the US now, havent spoke to her as I doubt her cell will work here, but maybe she will manage a pay phone or a mail. :) God its unbelievable how happy and relieved i am too that the long part of the hourney is done. Now just a layiver while she goes through immigartion and presents her fiancee visa, and then to catch the next flight at 7:45 to Norfolk. Thats about a 2 hour flight and if all goes well just before 10 I will be holding my bride to be in my arms and knwoing we dont have to part again! YIPPEE!!!!!

600 miles to JFK!

9 December 2008
almost to JFK

almost to JFK

Better than 80% of the way now to the US! Another hour from now they should be very close to JFK and ahead of schedule!

My heart is about to jump out of my chest now, just waiting to get in the car and go pick her up from Norfolk. well thats still another 6 hours before she lands. I’ve got most everything done now, just have to get my shower and hit the road. We’ve waited so very long for this day! See you soon my love

Half way here!

9 December 2008
Alison's flight

Alison's flight

:) She’s half the way here now! Maybe its a good thing I left a lot of theses odd jobs to do today to keep me busy or i would be going crazy if I was sitting around waiting. Wonder how she’s doing up there? I know its a long flight across the Atlantic and they aren’t the most comfortable seats either. Hope she can manage a little bit of sleep with it being a 5 hour change for her now.

Ok back to work for me  still lots to do..

Oh by the way I have found a flight tracker site that does international flights.. http://www.flightview.com/ her flight is Continental Airlines Flight Number 8245 (CO8245)

She’s on the way!!

9 December 2008

flight took off on time and Alison mou is in the air US bound! :) YEA!!!!
I’ve got to get my butt busy and get this pig sty in order before my bride arrives and sees it and wants me to take her back to the airport!! ;) more updates when I get them.

1 day to go!

8 December 2008
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This is the face I am wearing this week!

Man there are no words at all to describe how we feel tonight. I was talking to Alison this evening , saying goodnight as we always do every night when she gets to bed, and if you could have heard us we must have sounded like teenagers, giddy with happiness and just so very much excited about tomorrow.  Oh i hope she can get some sleep though, she has an early start in the morning to catch the bus to London and to get checked in and sorted for the flight. I doubt she will get much rest on the trip over, I know i couldnt sleep hardly at all when i was on the plane over there. Its just not easy to get comfortable in them seats at all, and then with the excitement too its even harder. I pray too there are no delays. we have spent enough time apart as it is and I know by 9:30 Tuesday night I am going to be pacing in circles at the airport until i see her coming down that hallway. I have dreamed and wished for this day for so long, we both have.

I just finished a quick mail to her, i know she wont have much time in the morning to write, but knowing its the last mail we will send to each other across a ocean i had to write a few lines. this has been a constant daily routine of ours this entire time and I treasured those mails on waking up each day, the next best thing to waking up next to her. Well very soon it will all be done and we will have our heaven that we have longed for. :)

Well i better get on to bed and try to get some rest, I have a lot to do in the morning still and I want to be halfway rested for the drive to Norfolk and back. I’ll keep updating whenever I get some word from her. And of course post that she is here, but that wll be a very short one ;) I’ll have to just fill in the details later as we may be just a bit busy initially!

Flight Tracking for Alison’s Flights

8 December 2008

Setting up the flight tracker from flightstats.com . Fight tracking is not available until departure. This is a pretty cool real time way to see where a flight is.
London (Heathrow) to New york (JFK)

http://www.flightstats.com/go/FlightTracker/flightTracker.do?id=146379732

departs 2:18 pm London time.
New York(JFK) to Norfolk (Norfolk Int.)

http://www.flightstats.com/go/FlightTracker/flightTracker.do?id=146393177

departs 7:45 pm EST