Jesse's Arrival, June 2010

I’ve regrettably stopped updating the blog, not thinking anyone really cared about it and not wanting to waste my time. But now…I have absolutely nothing to do so I’ll start updating it again in case anyone is interested in reading them, and also for me and my forgetful memory.

So let’s go back to June when I was awaiting Jesse’s arrival. I was unable to pick him up personally from the airport, more for the safety of us from my driving skills, but I was able to book him a shuttle to my (now our) front door.

Around 3am on June 19 I sat in the lobby of our building, waiting for Coachtrans to pull up. For weeks I had been thinking of what I would do when we met again. Do we run together and hug passionately and start the waterworks? Do we quietly walk up to each other and share a quick but romantic kiss? Would he take one look at me and run back to the plane? I decided it was but not to dwell and just do what came natural. My nerves were as high as the building (18 floors). When the shuttle pulled up to the door I didn’t know what he or I would do. As it turns out, I went outside while the door was opening on the bus. He saw me and we gave each other a very shaky hug and a very awkward quick kiss. Who was this person?? No way had we been dating before this moment. He was a completely different person then the one I cried goodbye to at the cruise terminal four months prior in Fort Lauderdale. We received his bag from the shuttle driver and entered our new home together. The walk to the elevator was full of “where did you go?” and “do you like the home I picked out for us?” Jesse had lost so much weight on the cruise ship he was barely recognizable. When I opened the door to our apartment I like to think he was impressed and loved our new home. Although it was nearing 4am, we were so shaky and had no idea what to do, so I took him on a walk down the beach and to show him the Australian bats and nightlife. It sounded like he was going to quite enjoy this small European/Miami beach town (as he put it). I don’t think I stopped shaking for a week after his arrival.

The next few weeks were spent getting Jesse settled in and getting to know each other again. On June 27 we celebrated our eleventh month anniversary (though later decided it was our tenth, not eleventh) at Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary. I introduced Jesse to some other Australian wildlife we had yet to see together. From an emu wanting to mate with Jesse to the high ropes course to my first Thai dinner, it was a great date. We made these two videos that fully describe it. If you visit Gold Coast, be sure to go to Currumbin, it’s definitely the best Australia wildlife park we’ve been to thus far!





More photos:

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http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=3036483&id=2034929&l=f5467e59b6