May and Karen just wanted to get Ken home so the day was filled up with paperwork and Vietnamese bureacracy. Gav and Sue were busy with Australian organising and preparations for the Memorial Service on Friday 27 September at the Redlands RSL.
Ken was delivered to our Hotel at 5.30pm in a sealed box meeting all quarantine standards. Mr Thang was so respectful and offered to hurry the translations for us as the consulate had booked our flights home for 12.30pm on Friday 20th September. He did as promised and dropped them to us at 10am. To be legal in Australia they need to notaried by the Vietnamese Dept of External Relations and the Australian Consulate which we did not have time to do before our flight. We left the documents with the Consulate for Mr Thang to finalise early the next week.
We 3 flew home via Singapore airlines with a 6 hour stopover at Changi airport. This was not as bad as it sounded as Changi Airport is the best in the world - and caters brilliantly for the transit passenger. We watched the latest Die Hard movie A Good Day to Die Hard, enjoyed the butterfly garden, loved the pleasure and pain of the reflexology chairs.
We arrived home to the best country in the world at 7am Saturday 21 September.
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