So Many Goodbyes...

We didn’t have much family time together in early 2019 as Ashlynn was leaving on January 3rd and Veronica was leaving on the 4th, so on the 2nd we went out for a nice Vietnamese lunch.

 That evening Jimmy bleached Ashlynn’s eyebrows...

...and the following day we said goodbye to her at Schiphol. She had a lot of luggage on this trip as the plan was to spend eight weeks in Seoul followed by eight weeks in Sydney (although we now know that she’ll be gone much longer than those four months). Her carry-on was her computer squeezed into her DJ kit. It was very strange kissing her goodbye knowing that she was traveling to Asia on a one-way ticket; the plans for Sydney were still just tentative at the time.

The next day we borrowed my friend’s car to take Veronica to the ferry. Poor Kati was very sad once she realized that we weren’t picking someone up but rather saying goodbye to Veronica, who was heading back to UEA a few days early to finish her dissertation.