janrzm
6th February 2009, 06:46 PM
Well we arrived on Monday, flew via Dubai with Emirates & had a weeks stopover.
Flights were ok, probably preferred Singapore, but no complaints with Emirates really. All 4 kids were fantastic on the flights. We only had 20k's each but we wouldn't have managed to transport or carry any more!
Kids started school 2 days after we arrived, little apprehensive but came out very happy, infact as today is Waitangi day, there is no school, but they still wanted to go! We had a chuckle at our youngest little boy who's 5 - he came out on his 1st day and said he'd made a new friend and his name was 'Bean' [which of course was 'Ben' ]this went right over my head even though I'd kept telling the kids that things were pronounuced differently!! Doesn't take kids long to pick up the lingo!
At the moment we are in a holiday rental 2 minutes from the beach so today the kids have been body boarding and it's pretty hot today!
Be careful with the sun though , we were only out a couple of hours and they are looking a bit red, which I hate to happen as we are usually always really careful. They could be in & out of the pool all day in Cyprus in August and not be red.I will be more careful in future.
I've been pleasantly surprised so far with stuff in the shops, not so much of a 'desert' as I was expecting. Probably just need to pick and choose a little more and take advantage of any offers, which I always liked to do anyway.
Managed to get a new phone number & broadband sorted out & up and running in 3 days - which seems pretty good.
Had a couple of 'nice' experiences too, we were going a little too fast on our journey from the airport and got flagged down by the police , he kindly told us the rules and let us on our way. We are now being very careful , which is good. Also we were late another day on our parking and a lovely lady was just writing out our ticket but also kindly let us off after we apologised and then wished us a nice day!
Early days but so far it's all good!!
Flights were ok, probably preferred Singapore, but no complaints with Emirates really. All 4 kids were fantastic on the flights. We only had 20k's each but we wouldn't have managed to transport or carry any more!
Kids started school 2 days after we arrived, little apprehensive but came out very happy, infact as today is Waitangi day, there is no school, but they still wanted to go! We had a chuckle at our youngest little boy who's 5 - he came out on his 1st day and said he'd made a new friend and his name was 'Bean' [which of course was 'Ben' ]this went right over my head even though I'd kept telling the kids that things were pronounuced differently!! Doesn't take kids long to pick up the lingo!
At the moment we are in a holiday rental 2 minutes from the beach so today the kids have been body boarding and it's pretty hot today!
Be careful with the sun though , we were only out a couple of hours and they are looking a bit red, which I hate to happen as we are usually always really careful. They could be in & out of the pool all day in Cyprus in August and not be red.I will be more careful in future.
I've been pleasantly surprised so far with stuff in the shops, not so much of a 'desert' as I was expecting. Probably just need to pick and choose a little more and take advantage of any offers, which I always liked to do anyway.
Managed to get a new phone number & broadband sorted out & up and running in 3 days - which seems pretty good.
Had a couple of 'nice' experiences too, we were going a little too fast on our journey from the airport and got flagged down by the police , he kindly told us the rules and let us on our way. We are now being very careful , which is good. Also we were late another day on our parking and a lovely lady was just writing out our ticket but also kindly let us off after we apologised and then wished us a nice day!
Early days but so far it's all good!!