{"id":318,"date":"2016-09-14T19:40:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T19:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/?p=318"},"modified":"2016-09-14T19:40:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T19:40:03","slug":"farewells-and-welcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Farewells and welcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I returned home Friday, only to farewell our lovely Sibylle the next morning.
\nShe has been an absolute joy to host and slotted into our family so easily.
\nWe are sure gonna miss you, you bundle of Swiss sweetness xxxx
\n\"img_9713\"<\/p>\n

Lenore & Ross had enjoyed their time with her & Mahalia as well.
\nThey had been out on a few adventures sussing out some of\u00a0the local scenic spots.
\n\"img_9712\"<\/p>\n

We welcomed Anja a few hours later.
\nAlso from Switzerland, and also had problems with connecting flights into Nelson.
\nBut she eventually arrived and all is well.<\/p>\n

Sunday morning I roused Azzan from his slumbers and we all went out to Melrose House for brunch.
\nIt was a rainy day but still pleasant enough to sit out on the verandah.
\nThe cafe is under new management but the food is still spectacularly wonderful.
\nThe staff were delightful, made some new friends whilst connecting with them \ud83d\ude42
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\nMahalia was bemoaning having to share her smoothie with yet another flower.
\nFlowers everywhere amongst her food.
\nBut so pretty Halia \ud83d\ude09\"img_9743\" \"img_9744\"
\nThe man of the\u00a0house easily tucked away a decently proper man sized breakfast.\"img_9752\"
\nThis beautiful\u00a0young woman holds a very special part of my heart\u00a0\u00a0xxx\"img_9754\"
\nAzzan headed off into the showery elements to walk the Grampians…. mmmm, maybe meeting friends was a preferable option which he quickly opted for \u00a0\ud83d\ude09
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\nWe took Anja for a tiki tour in the rain and ended up languishing on the floor in John & Sally\u2019s lounge, in front of their fire.
\nIt was very cosy \ud83d\ude09
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Phoebe\u00a0& Sapphie came for a visit the next day.
\nSapphire enjoyed some story book time with Nonna.
\nIt\u2019s not often she stays still enough so I made the most of it \ud83d\ude09
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Ross & Lenore packed up and said their farewells and headed south back to their land of normality.
\nIt was so lovely having them here.
\nThanks so much for all your help, and I am glad you were able to have a break, rest up and recover from your jet lag.<\/p>\n

I am pretty much over mine now and reality is hitting :-\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I returned home Friday, only to farewell our lovely Sibylle the next morning. She has been an absolute joy to host and slotted into our family so easily. We are sure gonna miss you, you bundle of Swiss sweetness xxxx Lenore & Ross had enjoyed their time with her & Mahalia as well. They had … Continue reading “Farewells and welcomes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,36,6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}