FAMILY REVIEW: Northern Ireland & ROI

Welcome to Ireland, land of the DUNN'S!

STOP OVER: United Arab Emirates

The UAE (not to be confused with the EAC... from Finding Nemo), was our stop over on our way to Italy. We purposefully chose this as our stop over and purposefully chose it to be 20 hours. In hindsight, I may have made it a longer stay over to just catch up on sleep plus have enough time to see what we wanted. It wasn't enough time for both. We made do with our choice though!

But back to the stop over...

How we nearly DIDN'T get here

I like reading honest blogs so I want to tell you the honest truth.

Life is hard, man.

It may seem like we are living a grand ol' life but it's harder than it looks to up and travel for so long. It felt like everything was trying to stop us from going, or at least making a miserable time of it.

Travel Block #1: Trying to sell our car. We were so close to cutting our losses and selling it for so much less than our spreadsheets had hoped for because of some rip off artists trying to squeeze as much as possible from us. It would have put a damper on our plans and I would have had to accept the dread of shared bathrooms in hostels or worse, we may have had to push a lot of things down and even accept defeat. It was a heavy stress to carry with weeks to go. Luckily, with some much needed advice, it sold just over a week before we left. It was such a blessing!

Hadrian's Post #1: Final Two Nights

It's only two nights until we leave for Europe. Yes, two nights until we take our long planned trip to the other side of the world. This may be the longest two nights of our lives. It's quite hard to explain to everyone that we were travelling all over Europe for 10 months(or so). I am so lucky! I am also lucky to not have to go to an actual school. But homeschooling does have its downsides.

I can't believe I have to spend nearly 10 months alone with my parents. I don't even get a break at school! They're my teachers! So although I am very lucky to travel, I will definitely need a break from my parents after we settle back down.😁😁😁😁

(I do actually enjoy my time with my parents. I am just following along with what my parents think I will do.)

Final Days

This morning was our final Sunday at our ward. Our last Sunday in an English speaking ward until around August! The person who said the opening prayer said it in Spanish and of course we understood nothing. I leaned over to Nathan and said: "This is gonna be us for the next few months... not understanding a thing". He was optimistic and said: "We will understand them". Umm, acca-scuse me? Is there something you want to tell me? Can you secretly speak Italian? 

Andiamo! Allons-y! Let's gone!

4 sleeps to go!

It's looking pretty real now :)

Our lives condensed into 5 bags!

Here's how it all began...

PS... yes I do mean "Let's Gone!"