In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we say goodbye to our house, our son and Australia. Aannsha says goodbye to our house in Queensland, Australia and both of...
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In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we say
goodbye to our house, our son Luke and
Australia to travel 18,600 kilometers to
Spain.
Time to say goodbye. Bye beautiful house, beautiful mountain in the background.
Bye rain forest. It's been a great house, we've had some great times here and
wonderful memories. The end of an era the beginning of a new one.
Blessings to the house and to those who
live in it.
So time to go? Yeah. All right well our chariot awaits, it's gonna whisk us
down to Luke's place and on to
the airport. That's a lot of stuff eh? I
mean a lot of the food stuffs, that's for Luke.
But yeah there's still a lot of bags.
Good job we've got the extra baggage allowance!
Departure day arrived and we loaded up
our car with everything we owned and
drove an hour south to Brisbane to pick
up our son Luke. The plan was that all
three of us would drive to the airport,
Aannsha and I would get dropped off and
then Luke would drive off into the
sunset in his new car. On the short drive
to Brisbane Airport we were chatting
about nothing at all and throwing around
our usual family banter, each one of us
reluctant to bring up the subject of the
final goodbyes that was getting closer
as the kilometres passed beneath the
wheels of the car. Goodbyes are hard at
the best of times, but this was a goodbye
that was unique. Usually it's the child
that leaves the parents to go off and
forge their own paths and destiny. But
this time it was as the parents, leaving
our son in his native country, to go off
on our new path. It felt so wrong but at
the same time we knew that Luke had the
life skills and confidence to walk his
own path and be master of his own
destiny.
You excited? If you weren't behind the camera I would be. Think we're going to need 2 of them.
I think we are gonna need 2. Maybe yeah.
It's the big moment.
Been a long time coming. Wow look at
that sunset!
OK Luke I don't want to do this.
Oh yeah, coz of the height.
You take care of yourself and keep in touch. Have fun. Follow your heart. Stop it.
Dude. What can I say? I love you. Take it easy.
Alright...
Now get out of here. At 6:30 p.m. on Monday 18th December 2017 ours and our sons paths diverged.
It was one of the most emotionally heart-wrenching moments of our lives.
So there we stood, watching our
son drive off into the sunset. As the car
disappeared down the ramp Aannsha and I turned to look at each other. There were
tears in both our eyes and spilling down
our cheeks. Words were useless at this
point so we simply nodded knowingly at
each other, as soul mates do and
started walking towards the doors of Brisbane Airport international departure terminal.
Well that was saying goodbye at the airport,
which wasn't too bad. Actually it
wasn't as tearful as I expected it to be.
But it was very hard and
it's just difficult you know, not knowing
when you're gonna see your son again, but
I think we've prepared him as best as we
can to carve out his own path now. So
we're just gonna let the universe take
control from here.
You know it's kind of very poignant
because I'm really looking forward to this.
I'm really looking forward to the whole experience...
and just...
saying goodbye to Luke...
it's the hardest thing.
So if you're looking Luke, I love you more
than the sun and the moon and the stars
in the sky and I know you'll be fine.
Next time on sailing A B Sea we check out
all the perks of flying business class
and 35 hours later arrive in Spain. Sea!
We keep calling it the ocean, we're wrong
it's the sea. (enjoy the outtakes) Ah the life of a teenager, hanging out laundry and eating exotic food! Oh yeah.
Are these your bras? Yeah, (coughs, clears throat) I erm cross dress on the side as well. I gotta make money somehow. (laughs)
I've got to get used to using thing haven't I? Yep.
Oh it's actually recording! Hahaha I think I
found, I think I've got an outtake! Hahahaha