The end of a long saga!

Hello my dear family and friends

It has been quite a long time since I last wrote you, just because the end of a two year saga doesn't happen everyday and I just had to thoroughly enjoy it, live it, before I could sit here and write to you.

October 29th 2009, was definitely a big day for us. Packers started bringing in our stuff into our newly bought flat (my 23rd home) and Alice and David arrived... it was a touchable proof, with witnesses, our saga was coming to an end! Halleluia! Amen amen! It was a truly beyond belief sensation!

It has been two years exactly to the month that Joel and I have been walking on a fine line, between the many decisions we had to take and constantly dealing with changes that kept coming, but were actually just nominal changes rather than actual changes. Now that it's all over, it's a relief to look back to a Saturday in October 2007, when I was in the our kitchen in Hong Kong preparing us a dessert and the phone rang, kicking off all these changes that ended last October 29th here in Panama City. With the sun out, the Pacific Ocean waters slightly crispy and an immense load of satisfaction, happiness and excitement, Joel and I entered our new "home sweet home" ... and I must say... we were so thrilled, that it was not even funny!!

Alice and David... poor things... came for what they probably thought it was going to be a good holiday and ended up working their butts off ... but... weather or not they worked like crazy, Joel and I LOVED having them here. They were not only a huge muscular help, I mean, a really HUGE help, carrying this and that, as well as big shoulders for the times of pure exhaustion.

Mom and Dad arrived from Rio on the night of Monday 9th. As planned, we gave a break on "settling in" and went off doing the touristic sites of Panama City, all together (except for Joel, because after all, someone has to work, right?), absolutely fantastic, I add! Three generations wondering about, chit chatting about our lives and missed family events, laughing about bits and pieces of life ... fabulous!

So, from my old desk now sitting in its new place (that hopefully will be reasonably long) I officially close our two year saga! What a pleasant feeling of relief!!